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At Home Care Assistance, we are committed to the wellbeing and happiness of the many AFCC clients we are privileged to serve. Through our years of service, we have come across a number of issues that routinely concern families that are evaluating care solutions for an aging loved one. 

- We created this guide to provide you with a more in-depth understanding of the care options available and how in-home care can have a dramatic, positive impact on you and your entire family. If you are reading AFCC programs you are probably researching care options for an aging parent or loved one and if they are among the 89% of seniors with a stated preference to live at home or age in place, you are specifically seeking options that help your loved one receive care in the comfort of home. You are not alone. There are currently over 70 million family caregivers who provide in-home care for a loved one and millions more searching for care solutions. By the year 2050, there will be over one million centenarians individuals over the age of 100 living in the United States of America. Alliance Family and Community Care (AFCC) don’t need to look forward to seeing the importance of understanding home care. 

- That was the first year in which more people died of chronic disease than of acute disease. Since then, there has been an ever-increasing need for services that manage chronic disease, such as non-medical home care, as opposed to services that address acute illness, such as medical or nursing care. An understanding of home care options is as critical for the post-hospitalization senior as it is for all other seniors, including those who are homebound, suffering from dementia or chronically frail. In today’s medical environment, patients are being discharged from hospitals sooner and more frequently discharged directly to home.

- The sharp increase in life expectancy and decline in acute medical conditions, combined with a growing preference among seniors to maintain independence and quality of life by living at home, means that home care is becoming a significant component of the aging paradigm.

Home care is rooted in the principle that older adults should be free to age at home with the level of care they need to be safe and comfortable. To that end, Alliance Family and Community Care (AFCC) home care providers work hard to ensure that ours clients are able to live as independently as possible while receiving the care they need to maintain a high quality of life. 

Our population is aging rapidly, and with an aging population comes an increased need for different care options, particularly when 9 out of 10 older adults have expressed a strong preference to “age in place” or stay in their own homes. AFCC will be able to working with every client in home care for help and showing them the new life. 

- Home care means assistance with activities of daily living and household tasks. Ideally, home care also provides meaningful companionship for older adults and peace of mind for their families.

While it is the oldest form of health care (think house calls before the advent of our modern hospital system), home care was very limited in its scope until approximately two decades ago. Before then, home care was exclusively an interim solution or a short-term service for older adults recovering from hospitalization. Today, home care can serve as a comprehensive alternative to an institutional setting like a nursing home or assisted living facility. However, home care is most commonly introduced as a service to assist aging seniors, it is also a valuable resource when an individual of any age has had an injury, accident or surgery or is suffering from a chronic illness.

   Home care can refer to two different types of care:

1. Non-Medical Home Care: Trained caregivers provide support with basic activities and functions and instrumental activities, called Activities of Daily Living and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living. 

2. Medical Home Health Care: Licensed medical professionals provide health services such as wound care and injections.

- Home care as it is used today typically refers to non-medical services that help a senior live and thrive at home. The Alliance Family and Community Care's services include but are not limited to meal preparation, medication reminders, companionship, bathing assistance, transportation, dementia care, transferring and more. The assessment tool below lists some of the most common Activities of Daily Living, or ADLs, and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living, or IADLs, in which caregivers provide support.

AFCC caregivers spend time helping clients with basic needs such as transferring or bathing, caregivers are just as likely to be helping a client in the garden, driving a client to the store, or playing a game of cards activities that keep the client active and mentally stimulated.

A common approach for seniors who do need some medical services is to assemble a team consisting of a licensed medical professional to assist a few hours per week with medical needs and a non-medical caregiver to assist throughout the week and provide companionship. 

- Alliance Family and Community Care (AFCC) home care service can be provided on an hourly or live-in basis, part time or around the clock. While home care is primarily provided in a residential home, caregivers can also provide assistance to seniors in assisted living facilities, in hospitals, on vacation or in a variety of other settings. In fact, AFCC home care service should work with you and your loved one to conduct a client assessment and to develop a plan of care. After completing the assessment and refining the plan of care, the Alliance Family and Community Care will select the appropriate caregiver, arrange an interview to ensure a personality fit and then place the caregiver in the home on an hourly or daily basis.

- Start service with Alliance Family and Community Care (AFCC) today, and do not wait tomorrow, just pick up your phone and make call, someone will be available to help you.