Personal Care Services

Schedule Personal Care exactly when you need it

Personal care services offer assistance to clients who have experienced a loss in their ability to perform the activities of daily living, to remain in a safe, clean and healthy home environment.

Activities of daily living refer to activities including bathing, dressing, transferring using the toilet, eating, and walking which reflects clients’ capacity for self-care.

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Our Personal Care Services

Assisting with eating including:

• Preparing food for clients with eating difficulties by cutting or puréeing
• Monitoring food and liquid intake
• Following a special diets
• Observing eating behaviors
• Monitoring eating safety rest such as swallowing and choking

Assisting with bathing including:

• Bed bathing
• Sponge bathing
• Tub bathing
• Showering
• Perennial care

Using bath equipment including:

• Tub seat
• Hydraulic tub seat
• Hand-held shower wand
• Assisting with tooth care including:
• Brushing permanent teeth
• Flossing
• Using rubber pick
• Removing cleaning and inserting dentures

Assisting and providing grooming including:

• Shaving  with an electric or safety razor
• Beard trimming
• Applying makeup

Assisting and providing hair care including:

• Brushing
• Shampooing
• Styling

Assisting with bowel regularity including:

• Monitoring bowel movements and appearance
• Following prescribed diets for  bowel maintenance
• Giving suppositories
• Giving enemas

Assisting with transfers including:

• One person pivot transfer
• Two-person transfers
• Using transfer belts
• Using mechanical lifts
• Using wheelchair ,walker, and or Cane

Assisting with self-administered medication including:

• Reminding client to take medications
• Placing medication within reach of the client
• Providing water for oral medication
• Opening pill  bottles or dispensing medications from blister packs prepared by a pharmacist
• Storing  medications
• Reassuring the client that medication has been taken

Assisting and providing basic skincare including:

• Washing and drying
• Applying non-prescription body lotions or creams
• Observing it skin changes

Assisting with dressing including:

•  Putting on support stockings
• Putting on clothes to wear
• Putting on regular stockings

Assisting with Nail maintenance including:

• Soaking
• Trimming
• Pushing back cuticles
• Filing

Over All Personal Care Services Including:

• Emptying or changing external urinary collecting devices including catheter bags and Suprapubic  bags
• Encouraging clients to perform normal body movements as tolerated
• Assisting with prosthetics such as applying, removing, cleaning hearing aids and limbs
• Assisting with menstrual care
• Assistance with urinals, bedpans, and or commodes
• Providing bowel and bladder incontinence care
• Assisting with the positioning in bed, wheelchair, and other chairs
• Assisting with transferring back and forth from bed, wheelchair, toilet, and chair
• Providing colostomy care and emptying ostomy bag
• Emptying, cleaning, and changing urinary drainage bags
• Taking verbal orders from Physicians
• Advising clients and families about diagnosis and or treatment plans

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