Service Name: Advanced Personal Care
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Description of Service: |
Specially trained aides provide assistance with special,
more skilled, though routine, health maintenance procedures
such as ostomy care, bowel programs, esercise programs,
transfers from bed to wheel chair using special equipment.
etc. Advanced care is most often needed by individuals with
chronic illness or permanent disabilities, such as those
with limited self-care ability due to paralysis. Advanced
Personal Care services gives those with a handicap a hand
with the health care they need without restraining them from
the things they can do. EXAMPLE: Someone paralyzed from the
waist down is able to do most things for himself once he is
up in the wheelchair. He may need help though with a daily
bowel program, an exercise program, catheter care, bathing,
and the transfer from bed to wheelchair each morning and the
transfer back to bed each evening. |
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Service Name: Homemaker Chore
Services
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Description of Service: |
Homemakers perform routine housekeeping tasks such as
vacuming, dusting, mopping floors, cleaning bathroom
fixtures, cleaning kitchen appliances and fixtures, etc.
Services are scheduled in advance for specific day(s) and
hour(s) of the week. |
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Service Name: Authorized Nurse
Visits
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Description of Service: |
Routine, semi-skilled nursing services such as pre-filling
medication reminder trays and insulin syringes; routine
monthly diabetic nail care; skin assessment when limited
mobility or chronic illness makes the individual susceptible
to skin breakdown; venipunctures to obtain lab specimens
when bloodwork is needed but the individual is physically
unable to travel to the lab or doctor's office to have the
test run; and other preventative and maintenance health care
is provided. |
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Service Name: Personal Care Aide
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Description of Service: |
Trained staff provide assistance with basic needs for
personal hygiene and grooming, laundry, meal preparation,
etc. When getting ina nd out of the tub or shower alone
unassisted may be dangerous or too exhausting, the Aide will
assist to the degree needed. Client privacy is a priority.
Client independence is encouraged. Meals-on-wheels is not
available in all areas of the Bootheel and in some cases the
meals provided do not meet the dietary restrictions or
preferences of some clients. These meals are served only at
mid-day Monday thru Friday. Most people require more than
one meal per day! Personal care aides prepare meals in the
client's home for those unable to obtain the necessary
nutrition unassisted. |
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Service Name: Respite Care
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Description of Service: |
Occasionally, it is unwise or unsafe to leave someone home
alone, even for short time. Still, they prefer to remain at
home and do well there with minimal assistance and/or
supervision. In those cases, VNA offers a Sitter to stay
with the client during those periods when the regular
caregiver must be away or is asleep. The Sitter is available
to assist the client to the bathroom, place prepared meals
within easy reach and asssit with minor difficulties for an
otherwise independent or stable person. |
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Service Name: Private Duty
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Description of Service: |
Non-skilled private duty services are available for children
and adults through VNA Community Services. (Skilled Private
Duty Services are provided through the VNA Private Duty
Program.) Care is provided to meet the needs of the
individual. |
