As we age or face medical challenges, living independently in our homes can become more difficult. Fortunately, professional Home care services can provide the support we need to continue living safely and comfortably at home. Curodoc offers a range of care services that cater to your unique needs and preferences, helping you achieve the highest quality of life possible.
What is Home Care?
Home care encompasses any professional support services that allow individuals to live safely in their homes. These services can include assistance for seniors, individuals managing chronic health issues, those recovering from a medical setback, or those with special needs or disabilities. Professional caregivers such as nurses, aides, and therapists provide short-term or long-term care in the home, depending on a person's needs.
At Curodoc, we believe in providing the care you need in the place you love. Home care can enable safety, security, and increased independence, ease management of an ongoing medical condition, help avoid unnecessary hospitalization, and aid in recovery after an illness, injury, or hospital stay—all through the care given in the comfort and familiarity of home.
Types of Home Care
Not all home care providers offer all types of care services at home. At Curodoc, we offer a range of services that cater to your unique needs and preferences, including:
Personal Care and Companionship: These services provide help with everyday activities like bathing, dressing, meal preparation, and household tasks, enabling independence and safety. This type of home care is also known as non-medical care, home health aide services, senior care, homemaker care, assistive care, or companion care.
Private Duty Nursing Care: This type of home care provides long-term, hourly nursing Care at home for adults with a chronic illness, injury, or disability. It includes home-based skilled nursing, long-term nursing care, catastrophic care, tracheostomy care, ventilator care, nursing care, shift nursing, hourly nursing, or adult nursing.
Home Health Care: This type of home care provides short-term, physician-directed care designed to help a patient prevent or recover from an illness, injury, or hospital stay. It includes Medicare-certified home health care, intermittent skilled care, or visiting nurse services.
Examples of Home Care Services
At Curodoc, we offer a range of services to cater to your individual needs. Our services are customized to your needs and may include services from one or more of the types of home care described above. Some of our care services at home include:
Personal Care and Companionship Services
● Assistance with self-care, such as grooming, bathing, dressing, and using the toilet
● Enabling safety at home by assisting with ambulation, transfer (e.g., from bed to wheelchair, wheelchair to the toilet), and fall prevention
●Assistance with meal planning and preparation, light housekeeping, laundry, errands, medication reminders, and escorting to appointments
● Companionship and engaging in hobbies and activities
● Supervision for someone with dementia or Alzheimer's disease
● Private Duty Nursing Care Services
● Care for diseases and conditions such as Traumatic brain injury (TBI), Spinal cord injury (SCI), ALS, MS
● Ventilator care
● Tracheostomy care
● Monitoring vital signs
● Administering medications
● Ostomy/gastrostomy care
● Feeding tube care
● Catheter care
● Home Health Care Services
● Short-term nursing services
● Physical therapy
● Occupational therapy
● Speech-language pathology
● Medical social work
● Home health aide services
