Advocates for Aging at Home LLC (AAH) in Lincoln, Nebraska
In-home non-medical supportive services and personal care, advanced aging and disabled care solutions, advocacy and caregiving; the preferred alternative to out-of-home care
Whether disabled or aging, when physical limitations occur or mental capacity declines, it can be a stressful and emotionally difficult time for everyone. A medical crisis can set off a chain reaction that many families are not prepared for; and it used to be the “end of the line” for some to continue living at home. Advocates for Aging at Home LLC (AAH), is a fee-for-service provider, offering advanced aging and disabled care solutions, as needed hourly home-care and live-in home care. We are a family owned
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Our advocates/caregivers’ most cherished constellation of values includes: empathy, concern for others, kindness, respect for all people, competency, dedication, compassion and personal touch that brings piece of mind. We want to establish an encompassing relationship with you and your loved ones based on human compassion, understanding, individual choices and utmost TRUST.
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• Hospital sitters, when you must be away from your loved one during hospitalization or other medical procedures, - offering episodic non-medical healthcare services to families
• Transition care from hospital to home we can assist you to help ensure a full recovery
• Find doctors, dentists, specialists and other providers to meet your needs
• Assist in scheduling appointments and follow-up appointments
• Locate treatment facilities, clinical trials
• Help transferring and coordinating medical information and medical records, X-rays and lab results among your other
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Personal care includes bathing, dressing, toileting, eating and transferring from place to place. Supportive care includes activities such as laundry, meal preparation, shopping, managing finances, light housekeeping, and transportation. Companionship provides fellowship and protection. • Provide daily in-home personal cares / dressing grooming, feeding, bathing, bladder and bowel care, respiration, transfers, and ambulation.
• Ensure proper medication and dosage are taken as prescribed
• Various light housekeeping tasks
• Companionship activities for clients – fellowship and protection
• Coordinate care among multiple providers
• Research and secure transportation to appointments
• Escort to physician appointment to be another set of eyes and ears
• Schedule and supervise home maintenance minor repairs and
Long-term care (LTC) covers a wide range of clinical and social services for those who need assistance due to functional limitations. These limitations usually result from complications associated with age related chronic conditions, from disabilities related to birth defects, brain damage, or mental retardation in children; or from major illnesses or injuries suffered by adults (Shi L. & Singh D.A., 2011). LTC encompasses a variety of services including traditional clinical services, social services and housing. Unlike acute care, long-term care is much more complicated and has objectives that are much harder to measure. Acute care mainly focuses on returning patients to their previous functional level and is primarily provided by specialty providers. However, LTC mainly focuses on preventing the physical and mental deterioration of an individual and promoting social adjustments to suit the different stages of decline. In addition the providers of LTC are more diverse than those in acute care and is offered in both formal and informal settings, which include: hospitals, physicians, home care, adult day care, nursing home care, assisted living and even informal caregivers such as friends and family members. Long-term care services have been dominated by community based services, which include informal care (86%, about 10 to 11 million) and formal institutional care delivered in nursing facilities (14%, 1.6 million) (McCall, 2001). Of more than the 10 million Americans estimated to require LTC services, 58% are elderly and 42% are under the age of 65 (Shi L. & Singh D.A., 2011). The users of LTC are either frail elderly or disabled and because of the specific care needs of this population, the care varies based on an indiv...
Mrs. Nancy Hamilton (changed name for privacy) is 95 years old female who resides in a local continued care retirement community (CCRC) located in the Los Angeles County. I decided to interview Mrs. Hamilton for her successful aging. I have known her for 9 years and her aging process has not been an easy ride but she always maintained a positive sprit that kept her going even today. Mrs. Hamilton moved in to a CCRC in 2006, two years after her husband passed away. Mrs. Hamilton has one daughter and one son. Daughter Margaret lives nearby and visits frequently and takes care of personally needs such as transportation to medical appointments or shopping for skin care products or clothes as necessary. Son, David lives in the Northern California and visits a few times a year.
This program has started to help caregiver injury and generate economic benefits. Through the implementation of this program, a number of healthcare institutions have reached better outcomes. Some of the clinical results are:
Mollie is the patient in our case study. Mollie lives with her daughter and son in law, both in their 70’s. A home health aide assists Mollie five days a week for three hours each day. At age 94, Mollie is an older adult, considered to be part of a vulnerable population, at risk for hearing, visual and mobility deficits. This at risk population can experience changes in cognitive or physical status making the activities of daily living difficult to perform (Meiner, 2011). As people like Mollie age, gradually becoming less able to function independently, their grown children, potential caregivers, may be preoccupied with the demands of their own lives and not prepared to care for an older
Taking care of the individuals that are getting older takes many different needs. Most of these needs cannot be given from the help of a family. This causes the need of having to put your love one into a home and causing for the worry of how they will be treated. It is important for the family and also the soon to be client to feel at home in their new environment. This has been an issue with the care being provided for each individual, which has lead to the need of making sure individuals have their own health care plan.
With the aging population growing faster every year many families must make a difficult decision whether their loved ones should live in assisted living or nursing home facilities. I can relate because I made the decision to care for my mother at my home. Some people do not have the money or resources to care for their parent so they must live in a facility for health and safety reasons.
Upon growing older there are many decisions to be made. Among one of the most difficult and perhaps most important decisions is where the elder person will live and how long-term care needs will be met when he/she is no longer capable of doing so independently due to the incapacity that accompanies many with old age. Nursing homes seem to be the popular choice for people no matter the race, gender, or socioeconomic status with 1.5 million Americans being admitted to them yearly.[3] Because nursing homes are in such a high demand and are not cheap, $77.9 billion was spent for nursing home care in the United States in 2010 alone, they are under criticism of many professions including the legal profession, which is in the process of establishing elder law as a defense to issues with in the elder community. Nursing homes have a duty to provide many things to the elderly including medical, social, pharmaceutical, and dietary services so that the individual may maintain the highest well-being possible.[4] Stated another way 'a nursing facility must care for its residents in such a manner and in such an environment as will promote maintenance or enhancement of the q...
Matthews, J. L. Beat the Nursing Home Trap: A Consumer's Guide to Assisted Living and
Caregiving for an elderly individual, or family member, can often result in stress for a caregiver (Bevans, 2012; Haley, 2003; Weitzner, Haley, & Chen, 2000; McMillan, 2005; Ugalde, Krishnasamy, & Schofield, 2011). This is a time during the family life cycle that the family often needs to re-arrange the way it is structured, and operates. It is characterized by the shifting of relationship between an elderly adult and his/her adult child, specifically because the elderly parent begins to rely on the child for increased support and assistance. This is because in later adulthood, individuals begin to age and can become ill or frail (; Anderson & Sabatelli, 2011; McGoldrick, & Walsh, 2003). As part of caring for an individual, or family member
No one ever expects to live out his or her later years in life in a nursing home. When people are young they may not realize the obstacles in life that may cause them not to have a place or person to spend their older years in life with. Regrettably, many of the elderly are not treated with the care and respect they deserve. “Poor quality of care is endemic in many nursing homes” (Fernandez, 2011). It is the responsibility of the younger generation to make sure that the elderly are taken care of and that neglect does not happen. Nursing homes have too many patients and not enough care-givers compared to home care that has familiar one on one care. Home-based
It is cost-effective for many elderly people to get in-home care because they own their home. Of people ages 65-74 21 present
Today, the world’s population is aging at a very fast pace and the United States is no exception to this demographic change. According to the U.S Census Bureau, senior citizens will account for 21% of the American population in 2050 (Older Americans, 2012). Although living longer lives may not seem like a negative sign, living longer does not necessarily mean living healthier. Older adults of today are in need of long-term health care services more than any generation before them (Older Americans, 2012). Because of the growing need for senior care, millions of families are facing critical decisions on how to provide care for their parents.
In Canada, there are approximately 120,000 people that have been diagnosed with dementia or a related condition. Dementia is a condition that is a progressive mental disorder and is characterized as deterioration of intelligence and personality (Myers, 2009). By 2031 this number will drastically increase to 750,000 due to the baby boomers aging (Statistics Canada, 2013; Black, et al., 2010). A caregiver is a person who contributes to another person's social, medical, environmental and economic resources (Myers, 2009). Family members taking on the role of the caregiver can experience a sense of gratification, great meaning and benefit in providing care (Kramer, 2000). This will lead to a major impact on the labor force, health insurance,
Home is a place where our identity constantly develop through connections with the past and is defined by cultural, socio-demographic, psychological, political, and economic factors. One place that older adults are calling home at the end of their life is long term care facilities. Long term care has experienced rapid growth over the past several decades. Currently, assisted living represents one of the most abundant institutional care settings for older adults. An estimated 36,000 assisted living facilities exist in the United States (Nursing Home Care, 2016) compared with an estimated 15,600 nursing homes (Nursing Home Care, 2016). With long term care facilities rapidly growing, there have been several different models composed, including
"Who does a son turn to, when his 78 year-old mother, newly admitted to a nursing home’s rehab unit, is experiencing delusions and screams through the night? Or where does a daughter turn to for help when she notices a rapid decline in her mother’s health and her mother refuses to seek medical care? Or the gentleman who believes it is time to a continuing care retirement community, but has no one to advise him on the myriad of financial and lifestyle implications of such a move? (Lederman, 2012)." Within in the field of home health care, ecological system creates an outline for defining what it means to provide quality care to the elderly.