Hourly and 24-hour Live-in care is available for companions and certified home health aides. Licensed practical nurses are available in 4, 8 and 12 hour shifts, and will make individual visits to provide wound care and injections.

During the intake interview, we assess individual needs to determine the appropriate care. If a Certified Home Health Aide or LPN is needed, a registered nurse will visit with the client to develop a plan of care.

Once the home care plan is in place, the agency makes regular visits to the patient's home to confirm that everyone is satisfied with the care being provided. A reassessment of the care plan is generally scheduled every 60 days. Caregiver Resources is available to the patient, family, caregiver and doctor 24/7.

To help you choose the type of caregiver that will best suit your needs click on the links below to see full descriptions of the services:

1. Companion Care
2. Certified Home Health Aide Care
3. Licensed Practical Nurse Care

• Assist with daily care tasks such as hair grooming, oral hygiene and dressing.
• Care of client's clothing and laundry. Change linens and make client's bed. Keep client's environment clean and neat, including bedroom and bathroom.
• Assist with daily errands and shopping
• Companions will prepare any meal that would occur during the hours of duty.
• The companion will feed the client when client is unable to do so independently. .
• Companion will complete Weekly Activity Form (provided by Caregiver Resources, Inc.) Patient or family member will validate at week's end.
• Live-In's must be able to have some time for sleep; live-in's generally work a total of 8 hours per day, which they arrange around the client's needs over a 24 hour period.
• Hourly companions will provide their own food.
• The client (except for unusual foods which the companion may bring) will provide food for live-in companions.

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All certified aides have completed a 76 hour course approved by the board of nursing and have passed a state approved certification exam.

• Full/partial baths or showers as directed by Supervising nurse.
• Assist with personal care:
• Hair grooming
• Oral care
• General skin care

Care of client's clothing and laundry. Change linens and make client's bed. Keep client's environment clean and neat, including bedroom and bathroom.

• If client is wheelchair-bound, the aide is responsible for assisting client into and out of the chair and positioning client while in the chair.
• Aides will prepare any meal that would occur during the hours of duty. The supervising nurse will monitor special diets.
• The aide will feed the client when client is unable to do so independently.
• Care and use of any special equipment is to be done under the direction of the supervising nurse.
• Aide will follow client's care plan as established by the nurse.
• Aide will complete Weekly Activity Form (provided by Caregiver Resources, Inc.) Patient or family member will validate at week's end.
• Live-In's must be able to have some time for sleep; generally, live-in's work a total of 8 hours per day, which they arrange around the client's needs over a 24 hour period.
• Hourly aides will provide their own food.
• The client (except for unusual foods which the aide may bring) will provide food for live-in aides.
• Companions (for non-medical care) are also available.
• 24/7 on call.

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Total patient care to include:

• Personal Hygiene
• Medication
• Skin Care
• Wound Care
• Blood sugar testing and insulin administration
• Tube feedings
• Range of motion exercises
• Special diet preparation and feeding of the patient
• Monitor vital signs
• Communicate changes in patients condition with the supervising nurse or doctor

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