Home Health Aide
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What is a Home Health Aide?
It is a caregiver with specialized training who is responsible for a variety of tasks. Not only do they provide general routine care, such as assistance with dressing, cooking, eating, getting out of bed, but they offer much more.
Do you need someone to monitor your senior’s health condition?
A home health aide will report any change in the patient’s condition, such as mood swings, a change in appetite, bruises, breathing difficulties, etc. to family, nurses and doctors. They have basic medical knowledge and assist seniors with measuring blood pressure, blood sugar, checking pulse and body temperature, help patients with artificial limbs.
Besides these, home health aide services may include:
- Monitoring blood pressure and blood sugar levels
- Checking heart rate and body temperature
- Infection prevention
- Medical observation
- Medical assessments
- Infusion therapy
- Assessing safety risk in homes
- Speech therapy and much more.
In certain cases, caregivers may help patients with specific needs, such as recovering from stroke or cancer, patients with heart disease or dementia.