Companion Care
This focuses primarily on the client and his or her social needs. Companions offer a wide range of services to clients, including:
- Provide companionship, socialization, communication
- Stabilize when walking by holding arm or hand
- Report unusual incidents or changes in behavior
- Accompany to appointments and/or errands
- Perform basic grooming/cosmetic assistance (brushing hair, assisting with make up, filing/polishing nails, etc.
- Perform light household tasks (meal/preparation, laundry, straighten living areas, etc.)
Personal Care Attendant & Home Health Aide
This focuses primarily on the client and his or her personal needs. Personal Care is provided by a Certified Nursing Assistant or Home Health Aide who can do everything ordered by a Companion plus:
- Assist with “hands on” care, including bathing, dressing, skin, mouth and hair care
- Measure temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure, intake and output of fluids (if necessary)
- Assist with prescribed range of motion (ROM) exercises
- Assist with prescribed ice cap or collar
- Assist with the use of ambulation devices (wheelchair, walker, etc.)
- Assist with the change of colostomy bag, reinforcement of dressing, etc
Skilled Nursing Care
This focuses primarily on the client and his or her medical needs. Skilled Nursing Care is provided by an RN or LVN who can do everything offered by a CNA/HHA or Companion plus:
- Provide wound care (including dressing changes)
- Administer tube feedings and/or high-tech intravenous therapy
- Administer and manage medications
- Maintain medical plans
- Provide other nursing care as prescribed by a physician
- Perform a Client Care Conference (assess, review, and discuss client’s plan of care and answer any questions the client or family may have)
Homemaking
For the client’s convenience Evergreen Private Care offers Homemaking referrals, as well. Homemakers focus primarily on household duties in the client’s residence and help maintain the home in an optimum state of cleanliness and safety by providing assistance with
the following:
- Sweeping, vacuuming and/or mopping floors
- Cleaning out cupboards, stoves, refrigerators, freezers
- Dusting furniture; cleaning blinds, windows
- Cleaning mirrors, sinks, toilets, showers, tubs
- Washing, drying, ironing, folding and putting away clothes and linens
- Performing other cleaning tasks as requested by client
