Personal Care & Companions

Aging beyond our golden years sometimes present physical and mental changes that affect us in less than ideal ways. Some seniors develop chronic illnesses such as Alzheimer’s disease and Dementia for example. Those health conditions adversely impacts a person’s ability to maintain dignity and independence while remaining safe at home. In addition, seniors often experience feelings of loneliness, depression, and isolation due to loss of friends and love ones with whom they experienced life. Maintaining social bonds is crucial to thwarting those feelings and living a good quality life.

Support and companionship improves quality of life through specialized assistance and attention provided to you or your loved one. Whether it’s personal care, or just someone who stops in for a midday check up, those moments of socialization make all the difference. The impact of maintaining those social bonds is often a longer and healthier life with improved comfort and wellbeing. Acuity Homecare offers various levels of support to meet those needs.

Personal Care Services

Hourly Assistance

Our most popular service is designed for clients who benefit from assistance on a regularly scheduled basis each week. Schedules and care plans are customized based on each individual’s needs, and care givers are available from as little as 8 to 24 hours divided into multiple shifts. This service is billed hourly and may consist of multiple care givers if more than 8hrs of care is needed per day. Care givers are not permitted to sleep as they work a regular shift.

24/7 Live-in Assistance

Live-in Assistance offers the added benefit of a 24/7 live-in caregiver. This level of care is available from 1 to 7 days per week and is billed at a flat daily rate. Caregivers who live-in are afforded 8 hours of sleep per 24 hours in addition to regular meal and personal time breaks throughout each day

Live-in services are ideal for individuals or couples who need care during the day along with the presence of a caregiver at night for urgent or emergent needs.
Live-in assistance enables continuous monitoring of you or your loved one to ensure around-the-clock safety and support.
The caregiver remains consistent and foster a more personal relationship with the client and family.
For clients with mild Alzheimer’s / Dementia, this level of care is most appropriate as it promotes consistency in care and caregiver.

Examples of Assistance provided

Bathing & Dressing Assistance.
Assisting with Personal Hygiene.
Meal Preparation & Feeding Assistance.
Light Housekeeping & Laundry.
Medication Reminders.

Ambulation & Mobility Support.
Mental Stimulation, Companionship & Social Support.
Escort to Personal & Medical Appointments.
Grocery Shopping & Other Errands.

Companions

Our companions provide needed and consistent presence in our client’s lives, and primarily provide emotional support and companionship to someone who is generally healthy and in need of minimal physical care. From a social perspective, having companions and friends enables people to share their feelings, discuss challenges and find resources to solve them. Companions become more than just care givers, they become like family. Companionship can be provided in any setting that our client resides in such as assisted living facilities, nursing homes, and hospitals

Acuity Homecare Companions provide:

Mental Stimulation.

Entertaining with Hobbies or Games.

Promoting Interaction with Family and Friends to keep them abreast of current events and improve socialization.

Assistance with Daily Planing Scheduling and keeping appointments.

Assistance with events planning and social activities. Ex: Sight seeing trips, Going to the movies or a theatre to catch a ballet.

Transportation assistance using Client’s own car.