Personal Care in Oakland Park
The part of the day people refuse help with, which is exactly why the question of who is standing there comes before anything else.
Refusal is almost never about the washing
Households ring about personal care when a parent has started saying no. The refusal is read as stubbornness and it is almost always about dignity — being undressed by somebody who was a stranger an hour ago.
Being asked whether this particular aide would suit is a very different proposition from being told a carer arrives Tuesday. Once the choice is genuine, and once the same person keeps coming back, refusals drop away on their own.
Personal care is the most common first booking, and it sits easily alongside meals, housekeeping or an hour of company.
The hands-on part
Done in the recorded order, at the person's pace, by the same aide each time.
The wash itself
Basin or shower, whichever is manageable today, with help exactly where it is wanted.
Getting dressed
Clothes in a workable order, with fastenings dealt with rather than wrestled.
The bathroom
There and back safely, and no remark made about any of it.
The short moves
Bed to chair, chair to frame, getting back up from the lavatory.
Skin and nails
Creams as recorded, and anything new reported the same day.
Who is allowed to do it
Hands-on personal care sits inside what an AHCA licensed agency may provide, and the supervision behind it is audited by an outside ACHC accreditor.
When it has outgrown the family
- Washing has slipped to once a week or less
- A spouse is doing lifting they should not be
- Help offered in a hurry is being turned down
- The shower has not been used in a month
- Clothes are going several days unchanged
Start with the introduction
Tell us what they are like and we will put forward somebody to meet them first.
Arrange the introduction — (954) 388-1640