Non-Medical Services
We are committed to providing a higher standard of care, and this includes our personal care services. Our fully-screened and certified personal care attendants are available to assist you with everyday tasks, such as eating, bathing, or light housework. We’re unique in that we only hire caregivers who exemplify compassion and empathy, and then match them with you based on personality and lifestyle, so you get a caregiver that’s right for you.
- Assistance with walking and mobility
- Dressing and grooming
- Medication reminders
- Expertise with memory loss, confusion, forgetfulness
- Post-hospitalization care
- Meal planning and preparation
- Medication reminders
- Personal safety home evaluation
- Oral and personal hygiene management
- Status reporting to family
The purpose of companionship is to offer company and friendship. Companions may help with certain household chores, such as laying out towels before a shower, but their primary purpose is to spend time with the patient. Grown children may want to hire companions to keep an eye on their aging parents, for example. Some of the services offered by companionship care include:
- Adult and elderly home companion visits
- Assistance with writing letters and correspondence
- Help to connect with loved ones through e-mail and social media
- Games, crafts, and friendly conversation
- Assistance with organization
- Respite and family relief
- Sitter services
Everyone enjoys a clean home, but for the elderly or disabled, even simple housekeeping tasks can become unmanageable. An untidy home can contribute to feelings of depression, isolation, and hopelessness. It can even be dangerous, increasing the risk of injury or illness and it may also be the first sign your loved one is struggling and needs extra help at home.
Homekeeping services include:
- Dusting
- Vacuuming
- Dish washing
- Laundry
- Meal planning and preparation
- Assistance with organization
- Pet care
Our specially trained, bonded, and insured caregivers can transport you in their vehicle or your own vehicle. We will assist you to the vehicle and accompany you during every moment of your trip, with your safety and well-being as our number one priority. When your trip is complete, we will get you settled back at your home.
Example destinations:
- Doctor or therapy appointments, including disability assistance throughout the trip
- Hospital or outpatient facility
- Prescription pick-up, grocery shopping, and other errands
- Visits with friends, relatives, social and religious functions
- Entertainment events
Many family members provide basic care for their aging loved ones themselves. However, providing such care poses a number of problems for the individual, who can eventually experience mental and physical exhaustion as a result of extended caregiving. Respite Care allows family caregivers a break to attend to other life necessities. While a family caregiver is away, a respite caregiver can temporarily see to the daily concerns of an elderly person.
Medical Services
At Ameriken Caring Services we are committed to providing excellent care in the comfort of your home. Our health care nurses are well-trained in a wide range of skills needed to help patients remain in their home and assist them to become independent again. Nursing services are provided by Registered Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses working in tandem with your primary care physician to establish and follow a treatment plan that is uniquely personal to your medical needs.
Skilled nursing services include:
- Diabetic Care & Education
- Wound Care
- Dressing Changes
- IV Therapy
- Tube Feedings
- Monitoring of Nutrition
- Hydration
- Bowell & Bladder Function
- Pain & Symptom Management
- Vitals Assessments
- Monitor/Teach Medication Regimen & Response to Medication
- Post Surgical Care
- Catheter Care/Changes – Urethral or Supra Pubic
- Colostomy/Ileostomy Care
- Bowel Care
- Draw Blood Samples
Whether the patients problem is a result of injury or disease, the role of a physical therapist is to help him or her to restore maximal ability. Physical therapists are key to recovery for some patients who are recuperating from injuries, illnesses, and surgery. Our physical therapists also work with individuals to prevent loss of mobility by developing fitness- and wellness-oriented programs for healthier and more active lifestyles.
Physical therapy services include:
- Evaluation of Condition, Potential for Rehabilitation
- Therapeutic Exercises - Improve ROM
- Bed Mobility
- Transfer Training
- Muscle Re-Education
- Establish / Upgrade Home Exercise Program
- Gait Training
- Pulmonary Physiotherapy
- Ultrasound
- Electrotherapy
- Prostatic Training
- Temporary Device
- Heat / Cold Treatment Modalities
- Soft Tissue Mobilization / Joint Mobilization
- Strengthening / Stability / Balance
Physical therapy may be applicable for someone experiencing:
- Difficulty walking, a loss of balance, or a fall
- A stroke, heart attack, or heart failure
- Hip or Knee Replacement Surgery
- Any noticeable decline in function
- Joint and/or back pain
Home occupational therapy is a rehabilitative service for people with mental, physical, developmental or emotional impairments. The use of Occupational Therapy will help to restore or maintain a person’s ability to perform. After hospitalization or a recent surgery, our Occupational therapists can help you regain your self-care skills right where you live, including fitting for prosthetics and training in the use of mobility assistive devices, fall prevention, customized exercise programs, balance training and motor skills rehabilitation.
Occupational therapy services include:
- Evaluation
- Upper Extremity Therapy
- Independent Living / ADL Training
- Muscle Re-Education
- Fine Motor Coordination
- Orthotics / Splinting
- Adaptive Equipment
Occupational therapy may be applicable after:
- Hip or Knee Replacement Surgery
- A stroke, heart attack, or heart failure
- Joint pain in hands, arms or shoulders
- Difficulty dressing, bathing, or eating
- Declining memory
- Any noticeable decline in function
Our Speech Therapy program can help with feeding and swallowing difficulties, dysphagia, mild to severe autism, cleft palate, traumatic brain injury, dyslexia, stammering and stuttering, stroke impairments, Alzheimer’s and dementia. Speech Language Therapists help patients develop their language and speech skills to regain control and increase their communication.
Speech therapy may help individuals who suffer from:
- Stroke impairments
- A heart attack
- Difficulty swallowing or speaking
- Dysphagia
- Mild to severe autism
- Traumatic brain injury
- Dyslexia
- Alzheimer’s and dementia
Our home health medical social workers assist patients and family members with a myriad of issues including cultural, medical, social, financial, and psychological needs. They are an invaluable support for patients as they begin home health services and provide them with various options and resources that reduce the difficulties inherent in adjusting to all kinds of temporary medical conditions. Medical social workers are trained to provide emotional support and comfort for individuals enduring anxiety and stress precipitated by hospitalization, injury, or illness.
Home health aide services include:
- Meal planning, grocery shopping, and errands
- Cooking and assistance with feeding
- Dishes, laundry, and linen change
- Light housekeeping
- Assistance with bathing, toileting, and dressing
- Transportation to doctor’s office, supermarket, and pharmacy
- Medication reminders and assistance with self-administered medication
- Assistance with walking and mobility
- Bed bound care
- Status reporting to family
- Alzheimer’s and Dementia care
When patients are in need of infrequent medical assistance, our intermittent staff can help. Intermittent care enables the patient to receive the highest quality healthcare only when assistance is needed, eliminating the cost of full-time, around-the-clock care. Whether you are recovering from surgery, illness, or managing a disease, we are here to provide nursing care, rehabilitation, and support services in the comfort of your home.