Services to Help Seniors Stay At Home - Tips for Choosing a Home Care Provider in Greenville, SC

Every year, over 20,000 agencies nationwide provide home care services to more than two million people with physical disabilities, chronic health problems, dementia, or terminal illnesses. As the population ages, the number of home care agencies will continue to grow.

We are living longer and healthier lives than ever before! But, if a time comes when help is needed, questions about arrangements for assistance or care will arise. Because most seniors wish to remain in their own homes, a wide variety of home care services have emerged to make this possible.

Home care usually refers to non-medical services that assist seniors with activities of daily living. Home care is an increasingly popular choice for care because it enables individuals to remain in their own environments, and can also give family caregivers a much needed break.

For example, simple tasks such as housekeeping, shopping, meal preparation, or driving to appointments can become increasingly difficult for many older adults. Personal tasks such as bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, and even transferring from the bed to a chair can became unmanageable alone. A Senior Approved Home Care agency provides such services. Home care providers are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They may work by themselves or as a team on a shift, part-time, hourly, live-in, or on an as-needed basis.

Types of services available for seniors living at home range from Homemaker Services which can include help with cooking, light cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping, and other household chores and also Personal Care Services which provide assistance with daily living activities such as bathing, dressing, toilet use, grooming and eating. Companionship and Respite Care are popular services as well.

Many caregivers considering using home care services because they feel there just are not enough hours in the day. It is difficult to care for all of the needs of a family member and still have enough time and energy left for your own family, a job, and yourself. Exhaustion and stress can become overwhelming. If this description fits you, it is time to consider contacting a home care agency for home care services.

Seniors who become home care recipients would rather stay in their own personal homes than move into residential care. This type of home care is very well suited for long distance care giving situations in which the primary caregiver cannot be there in person and the elder needs assistance or monitoring.

To locate home care provider agencies, check your local Yellow Page listings under Home Health Care, contact the Area Agency on Aging, local senior organizations, search the internet, or ask friends and acquaintances.

For more information, please visit us on the web at assistingangels.com assistingangels.com If you live in the Greenville, SC county area you may call us at 864-288-7100 for more information. Assisting Angels is a locally owned and operated non-medical home health care agency operated out of Mauldin, SC. We are not a franchise!

We are the only Senior Approved agency in the Upstate. We strive to maintain our over 90% satisfaction rating. For more information visit [seniorsapprove.com]