Change is never easy but for many elderly leaving a home they have lived in for many years can be disruptive and depressing. We can help.

1. The Top Reasons for
Choosing Home Care

2. Some people adapt to change well and can be happy in assisted
living facilities, retirement communities or nursing homes but for
others, leaving their home can be disruptive and depressing.

3. Here are top reasons why home care is a popular choice:

4. The potential for early discharge from the hospital
With home care, you can come home from the hospital sooner. Much
of the equipment and services that used to be available only in the
hospital can now be delivered at home.

5. Home care can substitute for a hospital or Nursing Home
Home care can be quite sophisticated and in some cases—depending
on the severity of an illness or disability — it can substitute for other
forms of institutionalized care, including hospitals and nursing homes.

6. Greater involvement with treatment
Both the patient and family members can be more intimately involved
with the patient’s treatment at home—helping to administer
medications, working with the patient on physical therapy and
coaching them on their recovery.

7. Independence
Who doesn't want independence? This is, perhaps, the greatest plus
for receiving care in one’s own home. Studies show that one of the
greatest fears of the elderly is loss of independence. This fear drives
many to make decisions that family and friends may think unwise.

8. Comfort
Being at home is simply more comfortable for most people than being
in an unfamiliar place. They have their photographs, books, bed, bath,
kitchen, telephone, television; everything is in its place, which in
studies has proven to be an effective emotional healer. And, the food is
better.

9. Family and Friends
Unlike the restricted visiting hours at hospitals and nursing homes,
home provides a place where family and friends can be close to the
person at all hours, whenever needed.

10. Morale
People tend to have a greater sense of well-being and overall morale
when they are in the comfortable surroundings of their own home.

11. A Faster Recovery
Research has shown that recovery can be faster at home than in the
hospital, particularly if there is good quality, skilled home health care
available to the patient.

12. Cost
Depending on the hours needed, home care can be much more
affordable than nursing homes or other institutions.

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