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Personal care like help with bathing, washing hair, shaving, or getting dressed.
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Home care keeps families together. There is no more important social value. It is particularly important in times of illness.
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Home care helps the elderly maintain their independence. None of us wants to be totally dependent and helpless. With some assistance, seniors can continue to maintain their preferred lifestyle.
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Home care prevents or postpones institutionalization. No one wants to be placed in a nursing home unless this is the only place where we can obtain the total, 24-hour care that we need.
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Home care promotes healing. There is scientific evidence that patients heal more quickly at home.
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Home care represents the best tradition in American health care. Most health care has always been given in the home. A visit to the hospital is the exception rather than the rule.
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Home care is safer. For all of its lifesaving potential, some 20% of the people who enter a hospital develop complications such as infections, etc. The incidence of such risks at home is near 0%.
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Home care encourages freedom for the individual. A hospital, of necessity, is a regimented, regulated environment. The same is true of a nursing home.
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Home care is personalized care. Home care is tailored to the needs of each individual. It is delivered one-on-one.
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Home care, by definition, involves the individual and the family in the care that is delivered. The patient and his family are taught to participate in their health care.
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Home care reduces stress. Unlike most forms of health care, which can increase anxiety and stress, home care has the opposite effect.
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Home care is the most effective form of health care. There is a very high consumer satisfaction associated with care delivered in the home.
