What is “Home Health Care” or “Skilled Care”?

Skilled care is a type of care provided by licensed medical professionals, including nurses, therapists, and aides, for the purpose of treating or managing an illness, injury, or medical condition. The primary benefit of home health care is that it can be delivered directly to the patient’s residence, while avoiding expensive hospital bills.

Additional benefits of home health care include:

• Faster recuperation and recovery from illness or injury
• Improved independence (over time)
• Maintaining or improving of current condition or level of function
• Regaining of self-sufficiency in the home
• Slowing of the decline of serious conditions
• Better symptom management

Home Health Care can seem complicated, but it is designed for the purpose of helping people perform activities of daily living and other functions that are often taken for granted. These daily living activities include walking or otherwise getting around, feeding, dressing and grooming, toileting, bathing, and transferring from one position to another.

Why home health care?

Studies have shown that people recover from illness faster in familiar surroundings. With cases of dementia, keeping people in a comfortable environment helps decrease incidents of confusion, anxiety, agitation, and irritability. Many homes are extended family dwellings and the family’s schedules make caring for the loved one more difficult. Advocates can help balance the family’s lives by helping with the care of the loved one.

Home healthcare services are most often used to:

• Treat an illness or injury
• Speed up the recovery and healing processes
• Become self-sufficient
• Restore independence
• Maintain your current condition or level of function
• Slow decline of illness

Advocates Home Health Care also provides Personal Home Health Care.