If you are
looking to take care of an elderly parent, but don't want to send them to a nursing home, but don't have the
time to stay with them at your own home, then senior home care may be the right type of service for you, giving
your loved ones the best medical and companion type care, all in the comfort of the home environment.

If you consider how much that the benefits
outweigh the costs, you'll see that having the convenience of familiarity of this arrangement for your parent
will make them happy, as well as taking much of the stress off of you. You can continue having them in your
life, knowing that they are taken care of in a pleasant situation.

Caregivers can
do things for the elderly like physical therapy, cook nutritionally appropriate food, educate you about how to
take care of the parent yourself, and also check temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, breathing, and
monitor illness and unstable health, as well as taking care of light housekeeping, laundry, short shopping
trips, and using the bathroom, dressing, and getting into and out of bed.

If you're looking to find one of these
senior home care agencies locally, your best bet is to call a local hospital and see if they have any
recommendations, and then after that, do some internet research or look for people who have been in similar
situations and can offer their advice on the matter. Just be sure that your insurance pays for the services
that you require.

Once you start the home care process, you'll quick realize just how much you can expect from the caregiver.
The aids will constantly be checking thing like blood pressure and temperature, heart rate and breathing, as
well as making sure that you are mentally and emotionally okay with your surrounding, and that you medications
being taken in the right doses at the right times.

If you aren't familiar with the plan of care, it's basically a list of everything that you need during
your care sessions, from medication to types of professional care to the equipment that needs to be on hand.
There is also a section of it that is devoted to what type of results you can expect over the course of your
treatment.

The next step after you get all set up and the care
has started, is to make it a point to constantly evaluate the basic quality of the care that you are given.
Staff should always be polite and positive, and the efficiency and depth of care should be regularly improving
over time.

Once you've done your research, made sure that finances are in order, explained to your family what's going
on, and decided on a provider, you'll find that senior home care can be an extremely positive experience as
opposed to the discomfort of a hospital or nursing home.