Home Health Agency - locally owned and operated for the past 20 years in the Midlands. The Peace of Mind You and Your Loved One Deserve
“A Family Helping Families to Make Home Care Easy” aren’t just words we say. We’re dedicated to bringing you affordable, professional services in your loved one’s home. As such, we ensure your satisfaction by providing caregivers available 24 hours per day, 7 days a week.
Many families find themselves overwhelmed. Between managing work and family responsibilities, as well as caring for a loved one, there just isn't enough time in the day. As a local home health agency in Columbia, we provide your family with the personalized support and resources you need to make sure your loved one is comfortable and safe at home. Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) involve daily tasks, such as dressing and brushing teeth. These activities can be divided into various categories.
Personal hygiene
Dressing
Eating
Maintaining continence
Transferring/mobility
These are all important abilities to maintain in order to take care of oneself and include being able to bathe/shower, groom, take care of nails and oral health, make appropriate clothing decisions and physically get dressed and undressed, feed oneself, use a restroom, stand from a sitting position, and walk independently. Assessing a loved one’s ability to perform their Activities of Daily Living is a critical step in determining their “function” and level of independence. Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs) are tasks related to independent living which can be used to assess a person’s ability to care for themselves.
Instrumental Activities of Daily Living include:
Shopping
Cooking
Managing medications
Using the telephone & looking up numbers
Doing housework
Doing laundry
Driving or using public transportation
Recognizing a loved ones function and ability to live independently is the first step in developing a care plan to provide the appropriate type and level of assistance. Figuring out the type of activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) care required allows one to decide if home care is a viable option.
