What to do when your loved one goes into the hospital? How to prepare for when they are discharged? What to expect? Who to follow up with? Home Instead Senior Care can help you and your loved one take care of all those questions.
Often times after discharge, seniors end up back in the hospital for many reasons. For instance, they have another fall, they do not understand or follow the directions of the discharge planner, they do not have adequate support at home or availability of a family member or caregiver, or they do not make follow up appointments with their doctors.
Home Care agencies like Home Instead Senior Care; understand what it is like for families to try to organize their loved one returning home. Returning Home is a guide created by Home Instead that helps family’s transition safely back home. It covers questions that should be asked prior to discharge, such as safety regulations, durable medical equipment that might be needed, and options for in home care and caregiving services. Returning Home provides families with a checklist regarding home safety and what to do on the day their loved one is going home. Following the seniors return home, Home Instead Senior Care discusses the immediate care the senior will need in the days to follow.
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Home Instead Senior Care can help all families dealing with any of these situations. We assist many families in the Chicagoland area as well as the northwest suburbs and North Shore to get back home and to stay at home. Our caregivers can help ensure a safe return back home from the hospital, assist with settling back into their routine at home or getting supplies that are needed, escort to doctor appointments, and make sure the senior is taking care of themselves. We want to make sure the senior and their family gets the support and assistance they need to make the transition home as easy and stress-less as possible.
For more information regarding Returning Home, please visit, http://www.caregiverstress.com/home-care/hospital-to-home-care/ or if you have any questions or need to inquire about services, please call our Skokie office at 847-673-1250. Someone is always available to answer your call or emergency.
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Tessa Silvestri
Community Services Representative
North Shore Senior Services d/b/a
Home Instead Senior Care
8822 Niles Center Road, Skokie IL
tsilvestri@homeinstead.com
(847) 673-1250
