Beginning Home Care Services

Benefits of Home Care Services in New York City

Unlike other types of long-term care, home health care empowers individuals to lead healthier, happier lives in a familiar setting by providing assistance with everyday tasks that might prove difficult due to illness or injury.

Recipients of home health care often enjoy a number of benefits that contribute to a higher quality of life when compared to those receiving care in assisted living facilities. These include:

  • Comfort in a familiar setting: A client’s long-time home is often a place of security and comfort. Home health care allows a client to remain in a familiar setting with established routines and privacy.
  • Continued independence: Home care services can be tailored to a client’s individual needs and goals, providing support where needed while allowing the client to remain as independent as they wish.
  • Reduced stress, anxiety, and uncertainty: Moving to an assisted living facility or other group care setting can be extremely stressful as they are introduced to a new community and may no longer be able to pursue activities and routines they once enjoyed. Bringing a home caregiver to a client’s residence allows for the same level of support without a feeling of being uprooted from a familiar setting.
  • Flexibility and customization: Home health care services can easily be adjusted to account for a client’s unique needs and goals, allowing for a more personalized plan of care than those in an institutional setting.

To learn how we can help you or a loved one, call SelectCare and speak with a home health care expert. Together, you can discuss a prospective client’s current living conditions, challenges, and how home health care can help overcome those challenges.

From there, we will schedule a free, in-home, RN needs assessment visit that will inform the client’s unique plan of care.

To help you get started, we’ve put together an article with information about preparing for in-home health care.  Click here to read the article or download our Free Home Care Starter Guide.

What You'll Find In This Section:

What Is Home Health Care?

How Is Home Care Paid For?

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Information to help you take the first steps towards obtaining home care services.

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We used SelectCare for 7 years to help care for my elderly parents, and they were lifesavers! SelectCare is professional, reliable and amazing, and we could not have survived 7 tough years of eldercare without them. I felt like I had a friend and a partner with them. They sent caring, well trained aides like Agnes every weekend. They also have skilled nurses like Kelly who took an interest in my parents and examined them periodically. Kelly was always available to help with nursing questions and suggestions. At times we needed substitutes for our private weekday aides, and SelectCare always came through for us and found someone. The 2 times they didn't have one of their own aides available to substitute they referred us to friendly competitors who helped out. They never left us hanging. It's also noteworthy that they continued to serve us reliably through the Covid lockdowns. SelectCare was also easy to deal with on administrative aspects like billing. I highly recommend SelectCare for home aides and eldercare.

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