For In-Home Care, It Takes a Community.
Please check all services your loved one might require to successfully age in place:
- Bathing
- Dressing
- Personal hygiene
- Exercise assistance
- Walking
- Transfers
- Repositioning
- Meal planning
- Meal preparation
- Cleaning
- Laundry
- Non-medical supervision
- Socialization
- Companion to/from outings
- Respite services
- Nursing care
- Physical therapy
- Occupational therapy
- Speech therapy
- Mental health counseling
- Long term planning
- Advance directives
- Caregiver counseling
- Conflict resolution
- Grief and/or end of life issues
- Specialized medical:
- Dentists
- Optometrists
- Audiologists
- Assistance making appointments
- Assistance keeping appointments
- Coordinating medicines
- Nutritional counseling
- Bill paying
- Checkbook balancing
- Financial planning
- Legal advice
- Home renovations tailored to aging in place:
- Installation of ramps
- Installation of grab-bars
- Widening of doorways
- Widening of bathroom facilities
- Converting tubs to showers
- Adding additional lighting
- Negotiation for medical insurance benefits
- Review of financial issues
- Review of legal issues
- Review of medical issues
- Education about services and benefits
- Help solving Medicare/insurance problems
- Review of health care bills
- Review of insurance claims
- Liaison for families at a distance
- Daily check-in calls
- Library services
- Home repair services
- In-home beauty services
- In-home massage therapy
- Senior center group activities
- Adult daycare services
- Crisis intervention
- Home delivered prescriptions
- Home delivered groceries
- Church outreach ministries
- Outdoor home maintenance
- Money management
- Assistance with personal affairs
- Mailing packages
- Watering plants
- Fish tank maintenance
Click here to download a printable PDF version of this checklist.
Wondering how home care services can help your loved one? Contact the St. Petersburg home care experts at Generations at Home today to learn more!
