Professional Companions/Attendants
  When you or your loved ones need assistance with everyday errands - shopping, cooking, light housecleaning, light laundry, etc., you might consider hiring a companion from A Family Care Company.
   A companion/attendant provides assistance with personal care, housekeeping, meal preparation, laundering and routine linen changes, errands and marketing.
General Duties and Responsibilities are:

1. Personal Care Assistance: Active range of motion exercises and assistance with self-administered baths or showers, general grooming and hygiene.

2. Meal Preparation: Assist client, in shopping, prepare meals for home care recipients using nutritional guidelines and client's personal preferences. Assist with feeding as needed and monitor meal intake. Wash dishes utilized in preparation and serving of care recipient's meals.

3. Assists with medication reminders that are ordinarily self-administered.

4. Performs light housekeeping duties directly associated with care recipients care: dust and vacuum care recipient's living area, tidy bathroom and kitchen routinely, make care recipient's bed and provide linen changes routinely, wash essential and personal care recipient's laundry as needed.

5. General Assistance: Provide transportation (37 cents per mile may apply, if caregiver's personal vehicle is used) for errands and marketing. Accompany or transport care recipient to doctor, clinic or hospital in care recipient's car. Escort on short walks if recommended.

6. Participates in the Illness Prevention Program as well as In-service. Education programs as appropriate.

7. Always maintains a professional image.

CNA's  CHHA's
A Home Health Aide provides care and assistance with activities of daily living as well as meal preparation, routine linen changes, laundry, light homemaker chores and marketing.
General Duties and Responsibilities are:

1. Personal Care Assistance: Assist with bed or tub bath, shower and personal hygiene. Provide personal grooming; hair, nails, skin and oral care. Assist with bedpan, bedside commode or toilet as needed. Assist with transfer from bed to chair or wheelchair. Assist with ambulation, range of motion and daily exercising. Assist with dressing. Encourage activity (as tolerated) and repositioning in bed. Performs other duties as assigned by the supervisor. Maintains a professional image and demonstrates commitment to professional growth.

2. Health Care: Monitor temperature, pulse and respiration. Monitor and record intake and output as requested on a case by case assignment. Documents care of patients on appropriate forms. Assist with prescribed exercises, prosthetic devises, compresses, drainage bags, support hose, urine testing and finger sticks for sugar and acetone levels. Performs other prescribed activities for a specific patient which have been taught by the appropriate health professional. Provide good skin care routinely. Reports changes in the patients' conditions and needs. Medication reminders that are ordinarily self administered.

3. Household Management: Dust and vacuum patient's living area regularly. Tidy bathroom and kitchen daily. Make patient's bed and provide linen changes routinely. Wash dishes utilized in preparation and serving of patient's meals. Do personal and essential patient laundry as needed. Prepare and serve patient's meals - assist with feeding as needed. Accompany or transport patient to doctor, clinic or hospital. Provide transportation for errands and marketing (34 cents per mile if personal car is used). Provide assistance in paying and maintaining bills. Arrange for household maintenance, heavy cleaning or other services not provided by our agency as needed.

Hospice
Because it can take some time for hospice professionals to tailor palliative care and pain management to each person, it is best to begin some level of professional care before a crisis exists. Bringing hospice professionals in at the last minute limits their effectiveness. A better approach is to arrange introductory home meetings or hospice visits well in advance of need and obtain counseling from a hospice professional that can provide helpful suggestions on care arrangements. Put the support network in place before you need it.

Tap into the knowledge base and experience of our counsels, they would be happy to help you, for that is what they do!

Many people who are terminally ill choose to remain at home or enter a home-like alternative care setting such as a hospice. This decision may be closely connected with a desire to achieve death with dignity.

A key objective in hospice and home care is to obtain high-quality palliative care to control pain and preserve the highest possible quality of life for as long as life remains. Ensuring optimal care depends on the nature of the specific disease process that is leading toward death.

For elderly people, the decision to begin hospice or home care is often linked to more general issues regarding basic living arrangements, finances and aging. Many eldercare resources exist to provide care for the total person.

The decision to begin hospice care may intensify feelings of grief and bereavement, both in the person who is dying and in others. Many support groups are available to help you through this end of life process, including groups for bereaved families.

Bath Visits
This is a special visit designed to provide assistance with a bath or a shower, hair grooming, finger and toenails cleaned and filed, painted if you like, along with a good old fashioned foot rub. Cream the skin and massage the legs. Personal grooming only.
Some minimums are required.

Drivers
As one becomes older, their ability to drive may become impaired and unsafe, yet they still need to get around to go to doctors appointments, shopping, hair cuts, meetings, socializing and normal activities. To be semi-independent and not isolated. Where do you want us to take you?

All of our drivers have insurance, are bonded, and have had background checks through the State of California and the FBI through the LiveScan program.

If the Care Provider uses their personal car, there is a charge of 37 cents per mile unless other agreeable arrangements are made between you and the Care Provider.

Long Distance Care
Help! I live on the east coast, and my mother lives in Los Angeles. She lives alone and can't take care of herself anymore. I need someone that can monitor her day-to-day activities, make sure she eats, takes her medication and gets to the doctor when needed.

Dr. Jamie Brown lives in Bremerton, Washington. Dr. Brown has a sibling who lives in Los Angeles, who has a co-dependent relationship with mom. Mom has been supporting Dr. Brown's brother who is 50 years old. Lately, mom is becoming frail, she lost a lot of weight, she fell down and was rushed to the hospital last night. Dr. Brown knows her mother needs help, but what kind of help?
Dr. Brown has been away from her mother for more than 10 years. She does not know what her mother really needs now. She knows that her brother, Dave, is not capable to help mom in any way. Dr. Brown is in crisis. She can't come down to L.A. for another week to try to organize the situation and she feels lost.
Dr. Brown needs to call A Family Care Company, and speak to one of our counselors.
First of all, the counselor will help Dr. Brown come up with a home care situation:
Dr. Brown needs a temporary live-in caregiver, who will be able to shop, work around the brother, and to take mom to the doctor for the next two weeks. The counselor will refer her to a private care manager that will do an assessment and evaluate the care the patient really needs, the condition of the house, etc. Our counselor will also refer Dr. Brown to an elder care attorney. Very shortly, the care manager will start getting the ball rolling. Dr. Brown's mother is safe, and now there is time for the proper intervention, and long-term planning to help keep mom as independent as possible.

As a long-distance family member, you need an organization to rise to the occasion in a crisis, and to be the bandage to take the panic out of the problem, even if it a short term or long term.

A Family Care Company preserves the independence of the individual providing personalized home care. We listen to you to understand your needs. When we provide services, yes, we take care of the patient, but we also take care of the family members, so you have time to just be relatives who care.

Traveling Companions and Escorts
Whether you are having to relocated someone, what to take them along for your vacation and/or bring them to a special event, our companions and escorts will make it more comfortable so that all may enjoy the occasion.

All traveling expenses would be extra to our hourly of day rates.

Any questions regarding any of the services A Family Care Company, feel free to call us at 818-884-4124. We look forward to speaking to you personally.