We understand that finding the best healthcare for your elderly loved one can be a complex and challenging task, adding difficulty to an already painful situation.

It’s important to research and explore all available healthcare options to ensure that the elderly receive the best possible care and support. Let’s look at all the reasons in favor of long-term home healthcare for your elderly loved one.

1. Comfort and Familiarity of Home Healthcare
Healthcare at home lets an elderly patient stay in the comfort and familiarity of their own home, which can be particularly important for those who suffer from anxiety, depression or dementia. It is grounding to be around one’s own things and the familiar sensations of home, and some patients need all the grounding, concrete support they can get.

We spend our lives creating, making, repairing and caring for our home, and deserve to spend as much time there in the home we made as possible.

2. Personalized Care in the Home
Home healthcare offers individualized care tailored to the specific requirements for each patient. Their care plan will be designed around their unique needs and take into account their medical conditions, physical limitations, and personal preferences. Extra attention for those who need it is one of the most healing, comforting things you can give anyone. This sunset phase of life should be about making your loved one feel as comfortable as possible, and one-on-one care helps do that.

3. Greater Independence from Home
One of the hardest parts of getting sick or aging is not being able to do the things we used to as easily, or at all. It’s easy to get lost in thoughts of how things used to be. But we know that elderly patients maintain their independence and dignity when we enable them to perform daily tasks like bathing, dressing, or preparing meals, with all the assistance from a trained caregiver they might need. A sense of purpose is important throughout life, and independent daily tasks are a great way to keep one’s spirits up.

4. Reduced Risk of Infection
Hospital workers are hard workers and deserve our respect and thanks, but there are many reasons to welcome that comfort at home instead. Home health care can reduce the risk of infection that occurs in hospitals or nursing homes, where many people can be sick in close proximity to the patient. The last thing your loved one needs is a secondary infection or illness, and staying at home is a great way to avoid these dangers.

A more private, more closely watched environment can help you keep track of your elderly patient’s exposures to others, which in the modern day could become key to preserving their life and health.

5. Home Healthcare Costs Less
The cost of a home health aide can be less expensive than traditional hospital or nursing home care, especially if the patient has limited medical needs or requires less intensive care. Like airlines, modern hospitals stress floor space utilization,, pushing patients together more tightly to save space for more patients,

If your resources could be going toward home health care, with all its benefits and the comforts of living at home, it’s worth checking the numbers.

Care in the Comfort of your Safe Space
Home healthcare can improve the emotional well-being of elderly patients by allowing them to remain in their homes, surrounded by family and familiar surroundings, and maintaining a sense of control over their lives. And if the comfort of home and the personal touch prove to be more affordable than a hospital stay, all the better.

Contact Tifeo Home Healthcare Services today to discuss care options for your loved ones as they enter this new phase of life.