Many people have the desire to stay in their usual environment as they grow older. The nursing home option is often associated with overcoming one’s own home, which has many memories, and leaving it in someone else’s hands. Home care, on the other hand, is a sought-after alternative that does not entail any major changes in everyday life.
Benefits of Home Care
For seniors care by mobile nurses or relatives is particularly pleasant because they move in the familiar environment and the extent of care itself can be determined and adapted. Initially, minor manipulations may be done by one’s own relatives. But if they are not on-site or can not cope with the challenges, mobile caregivers can make everyday life much easier. They then take over, for example, the rearrangement, nutrition or personal hygiene of the resident. The tasks also include the protection of privacy and the promotion of self-reliance of the caregivers.
Family members often see the advantage in out-patient care of not being able to completely hand over the responsibility and of being able to help the needy ones themselves. The certainty of being able to stay in one’s own home despite physical or mental restrictions usually gives the resident security.
Safety in the (domestic) care
The self-reliance of the resident and the least possible intervention in the daily routine have a high priority in the care. But at least as important is the security. Especially if the resident is still relatively agile, it may be useful, for example, to install a house emergency call, which guarantees „care at the touch of a button“ in an emergency situation. In addition, a home care bed on the one hand facilitate the activities of the nursing service, on the other hand provide more security. Thus, a height adjustment of the bed reduces the risk of falling through the correct entry and exit height and an (integrated) night light provides orientation at night.
Home care therefore offers many opportunities. However, depending on the degree of care and mobility of the resident, she can not replace housing in a nursing home. Even there, the resident does not have to completely give up his privacy and may even benefit from social contacts and the option of all-round care.
ben und profitiert evtl. sogar von sozialen Kontakten und der Möglichkeit zur Rundumpflege.
