
Home health care allows the elderly to live independently as long as possible, taking into account your medical conditions. It covers a wide range of services, and often can delay nursing home long term. More specifically, health care in the home can include physical and occupational therapy, speech therapy, and even skilled nursing. It may consist of help with daily living activities such as bathing the elderly, dressing or eating. Or it may include assistance with cooking, cleaning, cleaning, etc, to control a pair of prescription and nonprescription all day program. At this point, it is important for the understanding and care of family health and home care services, differences. Despite that sound the same (and home care may include some home care services), family doctors care more attention. While home care typically includes homework and housecleaning services, health care at home, usually to help the elders of the illness or injury. This is why people who provide home care tend to have licensed nurses, therapists and health aides at home. Most of the health sector in the home care, hospitals, or public health is authorized by the State Department. How do, of course, health care at home is important as the purchase of any quality of care? It is always a good idea to talk with friends, neighbors and local area agency on aging, health agencies at home in a better understanding of their community. For perspective home health care agency, the following 20 questions can be used to help guide your search: how long the agency has been serving this community? “The agency has printed brochures, description of services provided and the cost? If so, get one. The agency is an approved health care provider? Yes, certification, such as the Joint Commission’s national accreditation, certification bodies of quality health care? Does the agency is licensed to practice, (if your country of residence required)? Does the agency offer seniors a bill “of patients’ rights,” which describes the rights and institutions and high responsibility is to care? The agency is writing a patient with input from the patient (for care plan, your doctor and family), and update the plan as necessary? Patient care plan summarizes the course of treatment, which describes the specific tasks, work the carers? How competent closely monitored to ensure quality of care? Institutional care will continue taking care of family members are informed of their loved one is receiving? Agency staff is to provide 24 hours a day, seven days a week, if necessary? If the competent body to provide assistance, call 24-hours? The agency to ensure that patient confidentiality? How to take care institutions to hire and train? What is the procedure for resolving problems, and I can call with questions or complaints? The agency is how to handle billing? Is there a sliding scale based on ability to pay, and to provide financial assistance to pay for services? The agency will provide a checklist for carers? The agency urged that they did, if the arrival of workers from the health of the family can not? What kind of recruitment? Providers of buying directly from the personal (not through an agency) and health care, and more importantly, the people on the screen completely. This should include an interview with health care providers of the family to ensure that he or she is qualified for the job. You should ask for references. In addition, the list prepared by the interviewer may need advanced case special. For example, you would like to help elderly patients need to enter or exit the wheelchair access. Obviously, if this case health care in the home should be able to provide such assistance. In the selection process will be easier, if you have what you are looking for a better idea first. Another thing to remember is that they often can help us look ahead and hope that the new needs and special circumstances of the backup plan. From time to time, as each employee takes time off (or out) is not realistic to assume that a family of health workers will always be to provide care. Older people and relatives who employ the direct interview family health may have to consider the second part-time or call the person who can be available when the caregiver is not possible. Call a temporary care institutions may also help resolve this problem (see more information about these services, the prospect of relief). In any case, a system of family care, or through recruitment of individual health aide independent family, leading to spend some time, work to do to prepare. Ideally, you and your work before the official start on 1 to discuss what kind of daily work. If nothing else, say providers of health care (including disease of verbal and written) the following things, he or she should know the High: / injury, and medical emergency signs preferences drugs, and how and when to take glasses needs dentures, canes, walkers and other behavioral problems as possible and the best way to deal with his problems are solved (or a wheelchair, for example, or difficulty walking a) a special diet or nutritional requirements of exercise treatment. Furthermore, it should provide more information on caregivers in the home: High-level clothing may be necessary (if / when it gets too hot or too cold) how you can contact (and whom to contact in an emergency situation must be) how to find and use of drugs and medical supplies when the lock of the apartment or house, where to find where to find food and cooking utensils, service where you can find cleaning supplies where to find bulbs, flash, and location the fuse box (in the case of a power outage) Where I can find washing machines, dryers and other household appliances (as well as instructions on how to use them). Warning. . . Although most states require that the family’s personal care agency to carry out their criminal background checks and carefully screen these job seekers, the actual requirements will depend on where you live. Therefore, contact with health care institutions of the family, you may have to please aging or health department to ascertain their condition is what law applies to your local area agency. How I can pay for home care to do? Home care costs in different countries and within countries. Also, the cost will fluctuate depending on the type of health professional requirements. Care services can be paid for their patients and families, directly or through various public and private sources. The funding sources for health care in the home, including medical insurance, Medicaid, the elderly in the United States law, the Veterans Administration and private insurance. Health insurance is the largest single payer of home care services. Federal health insurance program would pay for home care if all the following conditions: The patient must be homebound and under the care of a physician, the patient must require skilled nursing or occupational, physical therapy, speech therapy, or at least intermittent basis (ie, regular but not continuous) services must be provided in the supervision of a physician as part of planning family health specifically for these patients, the patient must be eligible health insurance plan and services that must be condemned “medically reasonable and necessary agencies for home health services must be provided by the federal health insurance program. To keep your questions about health insurance, please call 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227, TTY / TDD: Voice and hearing-impaired 1-877-486-2048), or complain be seen in the Help of the Internet / WWW. Health insurance. Governor. Where I can learn more about home care? Several national organizations can provide information on health services of the family to provide consumers with more information. This includes home care, can be reached at 202-547-7424 or visit its Web site as follows: the National Association. NAHC. ORG. Address: Calle 228, Southeast, Washington, DC 20 003. Visiting Nurse Association of the United States can achieve 617-737-3200 or visit their Web site http://www. VNAA. ORG. Address: 99 Summer Street, Suite 1700, Boston, MA 02110. To find the health care program in the home where you live, you may want to contact the local aging information and assistance provider or area agency on aging (AAA level). health care for the elderly in positioning, it is the government of aging public service (1-800-677-1116 or http://www. Care for the Elderly. Governor can help you connect to these institutions. As an example , where adequate health care at home? it is not always clear to the majority of patients, health care and home needs better, and when he or she needs nursing care at home is best to consult a medical professional for consultation. The following case describes a situation in which home care was found to be the right choice. Francis was 84 years old, recently had a stroke. was hospitalized briefly and then discharged to recover at home. to make your house , his doctor called a home health agency in the home, and a full body Francis home health care program for six weeks. the doctor ordered Francis, medical insurance, home care. During the first week after Francis returned to home, a visiting nurse every day. nurse met with Francis’s family to discuss your specific dietary requirements and re-arrangements for the exercise therapy Francis, Yi Bangzhu her strength. Once the Cheng Yi Wan, Hushishenguan Francisco Meizhou how she twice Jian Hui Fu Cha. Jiating health agencies Ye Paichu a housewife, Yuan Geren care, and physical therapists Francisco visit several times this week. housewives shopping and cook a light meal. personal care workers will help with bathing Francisco, dressing and walking. physiotherapists Francisco and will continue to move her, she mastered some work to help his recovery.
June 4, 2010
Family Health Care Fact Sheets
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