Understanding Elder Care
Home Care is confusing. Learn about services, payments, and company types.
What is a Nurse Registry?
Registries do not directly provide senior care. Rather they conduct in-home assessments to better understand needs and then introduce families to caregivers who provide home elder care services.
Client in Control
AHCA Approved
Customized Care
Interview Provider
Licensed Caregivers
Bonded and Insured
Nurse registries offer guidance, but clients make all the decisions. You determine the type of home care required, the schedule that suits your needs and you even select the caregiver.
What is a Home Care Agency?
Most agencies are large companies with several locations. They provide fast response and extensive coverage. Caregivers are their employees, the agency manages, trains, and assigns to clients.
Agency Control
National Focus
Caregiver Backup
Offer Skilled Care
Slightly Lower Cost
Less Customization
The agency will create a plan for you with times of care and the services you will receive. Caregivers are sent based on availability and you may not always have the same one.
What is Private Pay Care?
Private pay care assists seniors with Activities of Daily Living. The services caregivers provide enable seniors to live independently and happily in their own home, for as long as possible.
Bathing
Dressing
Grooming
Transferring
Incontinence Care
Meal Prep & Feeding
Private pay includes direct payment, long-term care insurance, and some veteran benefits. There are no eligibility requirements or restrictions and you determine care level.
What is Home Health Care?
Home health care services are short-term medical care following chronic illness, injury, surgery or hospital discharge. Home health services are provided by certified nurses and therapists.
Wound Care
Injections & IVs
Check Vital Signs
Skilled Nursing
Nightly Monitoring
Catheter Assistance
Care is doctor prescribed and the senior has to be unable to get out, requiring a nurse to make a home visit. Medicare will cover costs, but services are limited to specific conditions.
