Peter Lawless asked:


Helping you choose your home care service

When you can see which home care service makes the most sense, making the right decision becomes a lot easier.

We know what caring for a loved one is like and we will do everything to ensure you have the best care that you need and help you find a way to afford it.

Check out more details on the different home care services:

? Elderly Care

? Dementia Care

? Overnight Home Care

Why do people use Home Care?

? A home carer is more than a medic, they help & listen

? It’s affordable with Tax Relief and HSE grants available

? Carers are professionals, who really care about people

? With home care; no hospitals, no fuss - just peace of mind

Looking after the Elderly - Old age can have its benefits too!

Do you need basic help with everyday tasks? Somebody you can talk to and who will always listen to you?

How about someone who’ll listen, while helping you feel better about things? Whether it’s a few of hours helping with chores, or bathing and bringing you down to the shops, we will be there.

Apart from basic tasks, are you looking for somebody who will take care of your health as well?

Your friend-carer will look after the following:

? Overall personal care

? Respite care

? Convalescence care

? Dementia care

? Early Alzheimer care

? Help with incontinence care

? Cooking and preparing meals

? Monitor diet and prepare favoured fresh meals

? Clean and vacuum

? Companionship, friendship, conversation

? Home hairdressing

? Arrange everyday appointments

? Pay and monitor bills

? Help write and post letters

? Monitor medications

? Answering the door

? Answering the phone

? Evenings or days out to socialize

? Road newspapers and books for you

? Take you out shopping or just shop for you

? Help try on, and choose clothing and footwear

? Help with wheelchair or walking

? Help look after pets and plants

? Take you to the doctors or hospital appointments

? Supervise any work carried out by other people, builders, painters etc�

? Washing and ironing of clothes

? Getting the morning paper

? Rental and return of DVDs or videos

? Get to know your neighbors and friends

? Plan special birthday and Christmas days with your friends and family or another family

? Regular bed changes

Dementia Care - Sometimes it seems beyond reason.

We know how frustrating it can be when reason goes out the door, especially when you are not trained to deal with it.

The emotional strain, of dealing with someone not always rational, can be quite daunting. Professional carers are trained with people, who may have bouts of dementia, in a loving and caring manner.

Apart from basic tasks, are you looking for somebody who will take care of your health as well?

People who are convalescing or those suffering from a serious disease who need a well-qualified carer who will become their friend at the same time, will probably choose this type of home care.

Dementia Care service includes Elderly Care with the addition of ~

? Overall personal care

? Respite care

? Convalescence care

? Dementia care

? Early Alzheimer care

? Help with incontinence care

Live in Care

You are probably looking for a service to suit you in a professional and affordable manner.

One-off Care

Would you prefer care on a one-off basis? Maybe it’s just night at the opera, the bingo or just some company, we are happy to be there for you.

Overnight Home Care

Night time can have its own demands!

Is it overnight care what you need, so that you can sleep in peace, knowing that all is safe and well?

Maybe you can afford the time to spend all day caring for someone you love. You also need your sleep and we know how draining it can be if you are on duty all night as well!

You can stay with your family member for the whole day but than you need to come back home and spend quality time with your own family as well.

Overnight Care

? Help in and out of bed

? Monitor client during the night

? Wash & dress next morning

? Prepare breakfast & clean up



John

Janice Willingham asked:


I thought we had a contract. I look after you and when the time came for reciprocation, you would look after me. For some, it may appear to be selfish to expect my children to care for me in their homes instead of placing me in a nursing home because of my stroke. The contract, my children’s and mine was formed at their birth. Their precious lives belonged to me. Their fate entrusted with me until they reached maturity and could fend for themselves.

As they grew our dependence on one another was unquestionable, our silent contract now melded together. I looked after them at the most vulnerable times of their lives and at some point I trusted they would do the same for me, their protector, their confidante, loving friend and mother.  Once I began to age and couldn’t fend for myself, my hope was that my children would honor our contract initiated at their birth.

I am now dependent on my children, trusting their judgment and compassion as they now control my life, where I live, what I wear and even my finances. A role reversal of sorts, that has begrudgingly taken place without my input or consent. My mental state, despite the stroke that paralyzed the left side of my body, was left intact without any effect on my speech.

I suffer a deep denial of my plight as I stare down unbelieving at my lifeless left arm and leg unable to move or feel the touch of another human being. I can’t walk and therefore, I am confined to a wheelchair. However, my will to walk, to be back in control of my life still prevails despite the choices my children have made for me.

My life once filled with joy and excitement with the ability to dictate my actions from one minute to the next is now one that is dependent on strangers and family members as I long to have my life back again.  I want to go home.

Most of my days are spent either sitting or lying expressionless in a silent display as I reflect over my life now stifled by consequence. I will tell anyone who will listen.  I want to go home. I pray daily and eagerly solicit prayers from my visitors to ask God to be merciful and restore me back to my prior self. I want to go home.

I suppose the easy thing to do would be to give up, to succumb to this existence. My life now consists of waiting. I wait for time as my life slowly slips from my grasp with each passing sunset and sunrise. I sob deeply and behind the tears is the sadness and the pain as I struggle to comprehend why I have been left in this place.

I’ve had to conform to a way of life that I have never known or thought would ever live. I have asked my children to take me to their homes, can’t we work something out? With each explanation of why it can’t be, their words bitingly remind me and it’s as if they don’t know . . . that we had a contract.

My children seem oblivious to my situation. They are comfortable with their obligatory visits. However, the fact still remains, I want to go home.  For living here for me is not living. My time is spent disconnected and suspended by emptiness which gives one ample time to ponder life as it is and what it was.

So, I wait. I fill the empty moments with memories of days gone by as I slowly come to terms with my plight.  I wish to discuss the terms of this contract, which appears to be binding and for me, one sided. With each passing day I realize that a negotiation is not possible. So, I wait and wish I could go home.

Although, some residents find it hard to come to terms with their disability, their family would serve them well to consider an assisted living facility.  The resident may respond better to an assistant living situation where they are still able to maintain some independence.

Depending on the circumstances, sometimes a nursing home is not the best choice. As caregivers we have to understand how the resident may have to mentally digest the change in their living status from being able to protect their privacy to now having to live in an environment that is more public and structured.

Additionally, some nursing home residents are often apprehensive about having to interact with care givers because they are strangers providing them care. Because some of the personal care nursing home personnel provide at times creates a sense of familiarity which the resident may not be accustomed to receiving from strangers, especially when it’s not by choice.

Further, it’s important that residents are able to maintain their family relationships. If the resident doesn’t feel alone or abandoned, but still part of their family, residents tend to be able to handle living in a nursing home or assisted living facility better.

It’s not easy having a parent living in a nursing home. Sometimes there is a need for emotional support and daily affirmations can be a great pick me up for caregivers when necessary.

It’s not easy having a parent living in a nursing home. Sometimes there is a need for emotional support and daily affirmations can be a great pick me up for caregivers when necessary.  If your loved one is living out of state in a nursing home, traveling to their location shows the importance of staying connected as a family.

 

 



Mary

meredith asked:


She is 83 diabetic, blind and cannot do much of anything for herself without getting confused and giving up . Also she is in a wheelchair.

Clay