Home health

Home health is a health care service that works with client's in their homes, where ever that may be. Skilled homecare can provide skilled nursing, aide, or therapy services. The patient must be home bound to receive these services. This service is short term, intermittant care. The focus is to treat and educate patients so that they recover quickly and are able to self manage their care. Home health also has a couple other programs. This is personal care and supportive care. You do not need to be home bound for these services. The focus on these programs is to assist patient's to keep them in their own homes. Personal care workers assist with things such a bathing, dressing, light transfers, meal preparation , medication reminders, etc. Supportive care workers do not do any "hands on care". They do meal prep., house cleaning, run errands, shop for clients, take people out in the community, etc. The trends in health care are really supporting "in the home care".