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Home Health Care in Fredericksburg, Virginia

What Is a Home Healthcare Aide?

Home healthcare aides at Senior Lifecare & Family Agency LLC provide basic care to elderly and disabled people in the comfort of their own homes.

Sometimes it is hard to find a suitable nursing facility for your loved one. Many people wish to continue living at home. Having a home health care aide means your loved ones can stay at home without worrying whether they will have the level of care they need.

Are Personal Care Aide and Home Healthcare Aide the Same?

There is a significant difference between personal care aide and home healthcare aide. While all our home healthcare aides have undergone health training, personal care aides have not.

What Are Home Healthcare Aide Duties and Responsibilities?

Our home healthcare aides monitor the health status of your loved one and help them with basic health-related needs such as dressing wounds, changing bandages, and medication management. Besides health-related tasks, they provide assistance in daily challenges elderly and disabled patients face. This includes bathing, toileting, feeding, meal preparation, light housekeeping, and more.

Home healthcare aides from Senior Lifecare & Family Agency LLC also provide support to family members.

You can carry on with your daily activities and have peace of mind knowing your loved one is at home with an expert by their side. Our home healthcare aides also cooperate with nurses and physicians to learn the necessary duties of caring for the client.

When to Seek a Home Healthcare Aide?

When your loved one is in need of professional care and nursing facilities are not an option, a home healthcare aide can help. This way your loved one will have access to the care and supervision such facilities offer, right in the comfort of their own home.