Many clinic patients, the elderly, or people who are undergoing long-term rehabilitation after major surgery at home, need outside help. Relatives or close friends will not always be able to provide qualified support and care for such patients.
In such cases, a 24-hour home care service is required with the involvement of qualified specialists and medical personnel. Many people who have faced a difficult situation in life are often interested in the question, how much does 24/7 in-home care cost?
What is a 24/7 In-Home Care Service?
24/7 In-Home Care Service is a set of medical services that leads to a quick recovery of a patient after a serious illness, surgery, injury, or alleviates his suffering and improves the quality of life in the provision of palliative care. In our company, this service is carried out at home with the involvement of the following set of specialists:
- Certified general doctors or highly specialized doctors.
- Registered Nurses.
- Speech correction specialists.
- Osteopaths, massage therapists, and other doctors ensure the normal functioning of the patient’s musculoskeletal system.
- Nursing support staff and social workers.
- Nurses on duty monitor the health level of seriously ill patients 24/7.
In addition to these specialists, we also attract additional staff to provide round-the-clock quality care, as well as monitor the patient’s health status with the provision of emergency or planned care, if necessary.
What kind of work do 24/7 In-Home Care Service employees do?
The work plan of medical and auxiliary staff and specialists, as well as nurses in caring for the patient, is determined individually for each specific case. The general set of services provided includes the following actions of the staff:
- Carrying out drug treatment, or intramuscular injections of the patient.
- Monitoring the state of health, making primary or final diagnoses, and conducting examinations, without the use of professional equipment.
- Communication with the patient, identifying and updating the clinical picture, and prescribing new medications.
- Assistance in moving the patient around the house, for example, to the kitchen, and to the bathroom.
- Walking with the patient, if such procedures do not contradict the prescription of the attending physician.
- Maintaining the standard life of the patient, such as washing, changing clothes, helping to use the toilet, preparing meals, and performing other vital tasks.
- Help in establishing the ability to communicate normally, correcting the speech of a patient after a stroke or other serious illness.
- Perform dressings, treatment of wounds, bedsores, and other traumatic injuries.
- Conducting intensive care.
- Assistance in occupational therapy, gymnastics, or other physical exercises.
- Feeding the patient, including intravenous, with the inability to eat independently.
- Providing psychological assistance, getting rid of stress and depression, and pursuing a special course of treatment.
All services that are provided around the clock by our service are aimed at ensuring a comfortable life for the patient, regardless of the age and severity of the identified pathology. Our qualified specialists relieve suffering and provide the necessary assistance in various pathologies.
How Much Does 24/7 In-Home Care Cost?
The cost of maintaining staff for round-the-clock care at home is calculated individually, according to the company’s price list, as well as adjusting factors, and depends on several important criteria:
- The age of the patient.
- The patient’s health status.
- The type of pathology identified.
- The need for round-the-clock monitoring of the patient.
- The number of specialists involved in working with patients.
- The need for intensive care.
- Category and method of dosage of drugs.
- The cost of procedures prescribed to the patient.
- The need for periodic planned hospitalization.
- The need for analysis.
- Removing the location of the patient from the region of service.
- The need to maintain the living conditions of the patient.
According to the results of calculations and compilation of statistics, regardless of the category of the patient and several specialists involved in caring for him, home care is no more than 1/3 of the cost of hospital stay bills. Thus, the customer incurs lower costs both for the direct payment for each service, according to the price list, and for the purchase of insurance, including 24/7 In-Home Care Service.
In recent years, experts have explicitly stated that home care is becoming more and more profitable for customers, due to the growth in the number of companies providing this service, as well as due to the reduction in the cost of such services with the development of digital technologies.
When is 24/7 In-Home Care required?
The decision to contact the round-the-clock assistance service for sick or incapacitated people is made in the presence of the following circumstances:
- Conclusion on the incapacity of an elderly person, or a patient with pathologies.
- The presence in the house of a child with ASD, or with other mental developmental disabilities.
- Relatives notice the patient’s untidy appearance, exhaustion due to lack of food, or other signs of socialization disorders, this means that the person needs third-party help, and they need to turn to specialists.
- If the patient cannot move independently, he needs round-the-clock supervision, since when he tries to transfer from bed to a wheelchair, he can injure himself.
- One of the main reasons why people don’t always turn to the services of round-the-clock care for a sick person is the reluctance to spend extra money. At the same time, if relatives have to take care of an elderly person, this can drag on for years, which will certainly affect the mental state of relatives. After the departure of the ward from life, the years will already be lost, and the relatives will not have time to enjoy life. In this regard, experts recommend always contacting professionals in such cases.
- Particular attention should be paid to older people who are diagnosed with dementia, starting with the second degree. Such patients are always ready to serve themselves and declare complete independence, but in fact, they cannot do without professional help.
- One of the most important reasons for hiring a nurse to look after a sick person is the fact that the patient is always more subordinate to a stranger than to a relative. This means that if the ward behaves too capriciously, and does not want to follow the daily routine or take the medications prescribed by the attending physician, it is recommended to seek professional help.
The specialists of our company perfectly understand the condition of sick people, since we have been working with such patients for more than a year. We provide psychological assistance, we understand the algorithm of interaction with a person, even in the most difficult situations. All our nurses and doctors have completed advanced training courses and meet the highest requirements, as evidenced by the positive feedback from our patients’ relatives.
Tips for choosing 24/7 In-Home Care
It is very difficult to make the right choice of a nurse who will simultaneously satisfy the patient and his relatives, and also fulfill all the regulatory requirements and prescriptions of the doctor. When looking for such staff for a home for around-the-clock care for a sick person, it is recommended to take into account several nuances:
- When conducting an interview, it is recommended to invite the future nurse to the patient and look at his reaction. The nurse should have a pleasant timbre of voice and arrange for the patient to quickly establish contact with him.
- The nurse must have the necessary qualifications, and be able to provide first aid, following the disease in her future ward.
- It is recommended to request in advance from the future employee all the necessary qualification documents, as well as a diploma of higher education.
- The nurse should initially be ready for an irregular working day, namely, staying next to a sick person 24/7, or, if she disagrees, it is recommended to hire two people. Our company immediately presents to a potential customer 2 or 3 highly qualified people who will be next to the patient for 24 hours.
- A nurse must always be in touch, have a mobile phone, be able to use instant messengers to answer a question at any time of the day, or transfer information to the attending physician in case of a force majeure situation.
- Regardless of professional qualities, the nurse must have such personal traits as benevolence, compassion, and care. Only with a good attitude from the home staff, the patient will quickly recover, or his last days of life will be comfortable.
Our company All American Home Care has only highly qualified medical staff and nurses who provide round-the-clock support for a sick person, regardless of the degree of progression of the disease. We are always ready to help your relative both in the postoperative period and in the provision of palliative care.
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