GLEN OAKS HEALTH CARE SERVICES offers a full range of in-home companionship and personal care services to provide patients with the right amount of support for independent living at home.
Personal Care Services
Our home care providers can help patients feel positive about their appearance through bathing, grooming, and hygiene assistance. Bathing not only cleanses the skin but goes deeper to refresh the spirit, provide relaxation, and stimulate circulation. Our employees are trained to lessen any embarrassment or discomfort.
Mobility Assistance
Mobility assistance helps patients maintain as active a lifestyle as possible when considering their ages, abilities, and overall health. There are many physical health benefits of keeping the patient mobile, including lowering blood pressure, improving digestion and sleep, increasing energy and stamina, and strengthening the heart.
Transferring and Positioning
Our home care providers are trained to move and place patients in correct posture positions to promote health and safety. Proper transferring and positioning from or into beds and chairs eliminates pressure areas on the skin, reduces weakening and stiffening of muscles, and encourages proper breathing, digestion, and elimination.
Toileting and Incontinence Care
We work to maintain the dignity and self-esteem of patients and other adult patients as they assist with daily living activities.
Feeding and Special Diet
Some patients need help feeding themselves, and the loss of independent eating can be hard to accept. We help ensure that our patients stay on prescribed diets to prevent or control a wide variety of medical conditions such as heart disease, high blood pressure, or diabetes.
In-Home Companionship
We provide patients with companionship, for instance through conversation or when they sit down to share a meal. Social contact such as this is proven to enhance patients’ health, happiness, and quality of life.
Meal Preparation
Many patients cannot shop for groceries and fix a well-balanced meal. Our caregivers can prepare hot, delicious, nutritious meals based on their patients’ preferences to help them get the proper nutrition they need.
Laundry
Our services include tending to the laundry either at the patient’s homes or a laundry facility, and will wash, dry, fold, iron, and put clothing away. We work to ensure that each patient’s laundry is done according to his or her preferences.
Light Housekeeping
Our light housekeeping services cover most domestic tasks. Often patients are able and want to join their caregivers in housework, which can help them feel useful and needed. These tasks include vacuuming, dusting, sweeping and mopping floors, and cleaning bathrooms and kitchens. Please be advised that GLEN OAKS HEALTH CARE SERVICES does not provide outdoor cleaning or maintenance services.
Grocery Shopping/Errands
Home care providers will shop for groceries at the stores their patients prefer and run errands such as picking up prescriptions or going to the post office. Patients may choose to stay home or come along and help with the shopping and errands as an excellent way to stay active and engaged. GLEN OAKS HEALTH CARE SERVICES will use any coupons provided.
Incidental Transportation
Our caregivers can provide incidental transportation for patients, allowing them the freedom to go shopping and attend other activities or get to medical appointments, the barbershop or beauty salon, and other places the patient chooses. Getting a patient out and about is good for the patient’s mind, body, and spirit.
Medication Reminders
Although our home care providers cannot administer medications, they can help ensure that patients take their medications as prescribed. They can assist with opening medication containers, reading labels, and reminding their patients when it is time to take a dose.
24-Hour Care
Depending on the patient’s needs, our home care provider can provide care for just a few hours a week or provide full-time, in-home care. Through our 24-hour patient care service, our caregivers coordinate caregiving responsibilities in shifts. This offers patients and their families full-time peace of mind.
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