Returning Home: Home Free!
Congratulations! Hopefully you senior loved one has made a successful transition home. Home is the place where most seniors want to be – and stay. As a matter of fact, upwards of 90% say they want to age in place at home, according to industry surveys.
Support for a family’s older adults is a labor of love that will generate benefits not only for seniors, but extended family members as well.
After all, you’ve set an example for the kind of love and care that honors the life of your older adult and serves as a legacy for future generations. And that’s something of which to be very proud.
Resources of the Returning Home Program
The Home Instead Senior Care network stands ready to provide the types of services that can help seniors make a successful transition from a hospital or facility back to their familiar home environment and routines during the critical 30 days after hospital discharge.
Services of the Home Instead Senior Care network’s Returning Home Care Program include:
- Readying an older adult’s home including changing bed linens, straightening the house to create a welcoming environment, buying groceries and preparing healthy meals;
- Discharge coordination and execution;
- medication and nutrition management;
- Record keeping;
- Monitoring for warning signs;
- Transportation to follow-up physician visits.