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What Types of Home Care Services Are Included With Alzheimer’s Home Care? Services you will typically receive with Alzheimer’s and dementia home care may include: wandering prevention, meal planning and preparation, medication reminders, managing moments of anger, anxiety, or confusion, grocery shopping and prescription pickups, laundry and light housekeeping, transfer and mobility assistance, transportation to appointments, and help with bathing, dressing, grooming, and toileting. Monitoring and companionship are also crucial aspects of compassionate elderly care. Although we’ve listed it last, companionship is hardly the least important Alzheimer’s home care service. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states: “Social isolation significantly increased a person’s risk of premature death from all causes, a risk that may rival those of smoking, obesity, and physical inactivity.” This highlights the importance of home care services like those provided by MMS Management Services, which ensure that individuals receive both the practical assistance and emotional support they need.

According to the National Institute on Aging (NIH) [2]: “You may feel that asking for help shows weakness or a lack of caring, but the opposite is true. Asking for help shows your strength. It means you know your limits and when to seek support.” The short answer is that it’s never too early to bring in compassionate elderly care through home care services for your parent or other loved one. If you need a more concrete answer, look for these signs it’s time for memory care [3]: Disorientation or confusion that puts their safety at risk, such as wandering on foot or driving after they’ve lost their license. Behavior changes, such as failing to keep up with personal hygiene, declining social invitations, or becoming withdrawn. Incontinence, which can be overwhelming for family members to handle on their own. Decline in physical health such as unexplained weight gain or loss, falls, or health issues caused by taking too much or too little of their prescription medications. A caregiver’s death or deterioration may require bringing in outside help, such as MMS Management Services.

Hospice care at home is a form of compassionate elderly care designed for individuals in the last phase of an incurable disease. This specialized type of care emphasizes enhancing the quality of life, allowing patients to live as fully and comfortably as possible. Hospice care is delivered at the patient’s home or that of a loved one, rather than in facilities like hospitals or nursing homes. What Are the 4 Levels of Hospice Care? Medicare defines four levels of hospice care. Depending on a patient’s needs and wishes, they may experience all four levels or just one. The four levels of hospice care are: Level 1: Routine Home Care, providing a range of home care services available when you or your loved one are not in crisis. Level 2: Continuous Home Care is necessary when a higher level of nursing care is required during a crisis, meaning a nurse is needed for at least 8 hours in a 24-hour period. Level 3: General Inpatient Care is for situations where short-term symptoms are too severe to manage at home. Level 4: Respite Care offers a short stay in a hospital or other facility to give your primary caregiver a much-needed break, ensuring that compassionate elderly care can be maintained.