Home Care Safe Discharges

Eden Home Care provides non-medical support services and assistance with everyday activities to allow people living with a variety of diagnoses and situations to stay at home safely and independently. Enrolling in home care ensures safe discharges for patients with stroke, dementia, Parkinson's Disease, an increased fall risk, diabetes, arthritis, and more.

Who provides care?

Eden Home Care is devoted to providing the most reliable, professional, and compassionate caregivers in the industry. All our caregivers are:

• CPR/First Aid Certified.
• Dementia Certified.
• Background and driving record screened.
• Regularly trained and re-educated.
• Mentored and monitored by our local care managers.

How can home care keep discharges safe?

Eden Home Care's services and schedules are tailored to meet specific needs. They can ensure safety and comfort when patients are discharged and back at home. Caregivers can help with everything from:

• Fall Prevention.
• Memory Care.
• Proper/Specialty Diet.
• Exercise.
• Preventing Loneliness/Promoting Mental Health.

Stroke patients may show signs of weakness, paralysis, and problems with balance or coordination. They could also have pain, numbness, burning or tingling sensations, fatigue, difficulties swallowing, or inattention to one side of the body.

Eden caregivers can help with:

• Choosing the appropriate level of care/care plan.
• Daily exercise routines.
• Mobility, communication and eating if needed.
• Emotional healing.
• Daily activities that may have become too difficult.
• Bathing and toileting as needed.
• Light housekeeping.
• Monitoring for new or worsening symptoms to adapt care and keep the family informed in real time.

People with dementia can exhibit difficulty recognizing family, loved ones, time and places. They may also struggle with familiar tasks, planning, judgement calls, problem solving, and misplacing things.

Eden caregivers understand dementia is different for each person and our approach is tailored to their unique journey. We can help patients with:

• Providing familiarity and comfort with consistent scheduling and staffing.
• Setting daily routines.
• Adjusting care plans in real time as cognition and abilities decline.
• Planning and engaging in activities promoting mental stimulation as tolerated.
• Promoting nutritious eating, good hygiene, and helping with bathing and other personal care.
• Providing respite for the primary caregiver.
• Ensuring their safety.
• Medication reminders.

Some signs and symptoms of Parkinson's Disease can be tremors; trembling of the hands arms, legs, jaw, or face; stiffness of the arms, legs and trunk; slowness of movement; and poor balance and coordination.

Parkinson's patients can also have speech difficulty, depression, speech dysfunction, urinary incontinence, sleep problems, and difficulty swallowing.

Eden caregivers can help with:

• Assisting with ambulation, transferring into wheelchair, bed, etc.
• Toileting, bathing, incontinence care and catheter care.
• Lessening depression by being an active listener, positive conversations, cultivating a real connection and friendship.
• Transportation to appointments and planning activities.
• Meal planning and preparation to ensure nutritious and easy to swallow food.
• Adapting care in real time as symptoms progress.
• Fall prevention program.

Falls are the number one cause of injuries in adults over 65—one in four will fall this year that may result in hip fractures, cuts, head and brain injuries and other life threatening complications.

Eden caregivers can help with:

• Conducting a FREE fall risk assessment to identify potential hazards in the home.
• Creating a safe living space involving attention to proper footwear.
• Maintaining a floor free of tripping hazards.
• Standby assistance during times of greater risk of fall such as bathing and toileting.
• Assisting with walking and exercise-controlled fall response protocol as when warranted.
• Real time emergency response.
• Keeping floors dry and not slippery.
• Standby assistance when ambulating.

People with diabetes may exhibit extreme thirst, fatigue, blurred vision, frequent infections, slow healing wounds, and numbness, tingling or pain in the hands or feet. They can also experience hunger even after eating, and weight loss despite increased eating.

Eden caregivers can help with:

• Encouraging liquids.
• Encouraging proper diet and activity levels.
• Glucose testing assistance including following a schedule, setting and cleaning up when checking blood sugar levels.
• Meal prep/planning to control sugar levels.
• Assisting with an exercise routine.
• Identifying sugar highs and lows and responding accordingly.

Patients with arthritis may experience inflammation, joint damage, immune system dysfunction, or infection-causing pain and making daily tasks more difficult.

Eden caregivers can help with:

• Managing assistive devices, canes, walkers, wheelchairs, etc.
• Encouraging and assistance with exercise and range of motion.
• Personal care including assistance showering, dressing, toileting and all other daily hygiene.
• Specialty diet meal planning and prep. Adding food that is anti-inflammatory has been shown to help reduce the swelling such as fish, nuts, fruits, and vegetables.
• Transportation to doctors and physical therapy.
• Assisting with tasks that have become too painful.