Companion Care

Have you seen unexpected, disturbing mood, temperament, and well-being swings in your senior loved one? Seniors often exhibit sudden behavioral changes, but loneliness, isolation, and boredom can cause them.

A companion can help.

Professional non-medical caretakers can improve your senior's mood and yours.

Seniors and disabled persons who need socialization but not advanced help often use companion caregiving. Professional home care helps them age in place, keep independence, and give you peace of mind that they are secure and cared for.

What Is Companion Care?

Companion care helps elders and disabled individuals feel safe and secure at home with emotional and physical support. Companionship reduces anxiety, depression, and isolation.

 A Healing Hand care provider can improve your loved one's quality of life by acting as a trusted companion during their favorite hobbies and activities, accompanying them to appointments and social trips, and offering pleasant conversation. These activities can save your loved one, especially if they are isolated due to health or mobility issues or have no friends or family nearby.

How Do Social Isolation and Loneliness Concern Seniors?

• A 50% dementia risk increase

• Higher despair, anxiety, and suicide rates

• A higher risk of premature death, illness, and hospitalization

• Conditions and circumstances that put seniors at risk of social isolation or loneliness include:

• Death of loved ones, especially spouses

• Non-local family and friends Hearing or vision loss

• Mobility issues

• Chronic illness that prevents them from leaving home

• Unable to drive

• Lower socioeconomic status

• How Does Companion Care Help Seniors?

To prevent mental and physical health difficulties, older people's companion care provides social connection and regular fellowship, breaking the cycle of chronic solitude.

Supporting an older or disabled loved one while juggling your obligations can be difficult. When personal, professional, and family obligations prevent you from being with them, companion home care can step in.

Healing Hands can also provide you peace of mind that your senior is getting the socialization they need to improve their mood and spirit from a reliable caretaker.

Companion caregiving

If your senior loved one needs professional care, at-home care may be better than nursing home or assisted living. Choose between “companion care” and “personal care.”

Conversation and personal connection in and out of the home are common companion care chores.

However, personal care includes companion care and physical assistance with daily tasks like dressing, bathing, toileting, light cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping, and meal preparation. Personal care for chronic diseases like diabetes or Parkinson's might entail non-medical help.

 Companion care lets most elders age in place. However, seniors who need advanced support or physical assistance may need personal care to live comfortably at home.

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What does Respite Care mean?

Respite care is short-term or temporary home care that gives the main caregiver much-needed rest or a break from their tasks. Some families and main caregivers need to take a short break to work outside the home, do personal things, or take care of other obligations. Respite care can help them.

One of the best things about temporary care is that it gives you flexibility. Most of the time, you can book services for a few hours, overnight, a few days, or even longer. Our professional nurses can also help people in their own homes regularly once a week, twice a month, or once a month.

You'll also feel better knowing that your loved one is in hands that care, even if it's only for a short time.