Acknowledging the need for assistance for yourself or a loved one to continue living independently can be humbling. It can be further complicated by the overwhelming number of service options, multiple home care companies and other people’s opinions of what’s best. Pinnacle Home Care compassionately responds to the need for assistance by offering an array of home care services including Home Health Aide, Homemaker and Companion services.
Each option can be individualized for an individual or couple. Pinnacle Home Care focuses on providing only what is necessary to promote the dignity of independence. Services often evolve as circumstances and needs change.
Service Options
Home Health Aide services might include:
- Assistance with self administration of medications
- Assistance with dressing, bathing, grooming
- Body positioning
- Transfers (1 pivot-transfer, 2 person transfer, mechanical transfers)
- Mobility (use of walker, wheelchair, cane)
- Skin care (bathing, foot soaks)
- Toileting (assist with bowel and bladder control, devices and training programs)
- Feeding (supervision, physical assistance, cueing)
- Delegated tasks (standby assistance with a developed exercise program or active range of motion, preventative skin care, blood pressure checks, blood glucose monitoring assistance, assistance with nebulizer treatments, routine foley catheter care including changing overnight drainage bag)
Homemaker or Companion services might include:
- Assistance to schedule appointments (arrange activities with family/friends, transportation, provide reminders for appointments)
- Personal laundry (wash, dry, fold, put away, for individual)
- Meal preparation (breakfast, lunch, dinner preparation and clean up, cutting up food, preparation of modified diets)
- Shopping (assist with or complete routine shopping, seasonal or special occasion shopping, preparing of lists, cutting coupons)
- Assistance to scheduling appointments (arrange activities with family/friends, transportation, provide reminders of appointments)
- Transportation (arrange or provide transportation)
Nursing Services might include:
- Medication management and administration including injections
- Health Assessments
- Diabetic Education and Management
- Home Safety Evaluations
- Wound Care / Dressing Changes
- Ostomy teaching and management
- Urinary catheter management
- Teaching about medications, diseases and treatments
