The primary benefit of receiving care at home is just what it sounds like: your senior loved one get to receive their care in the privacy and comfort of their own home. Research suggests that in home care not only reduces stress and anxiety, but when seniors are recovering from an illness, injury, or surgical procedure, they heal more quickly and are readmitted to the hospital less frequently as well.
Sometimes, standard home care services (bathing, grooming, dressing, toileting, etc.) are not enough to allow a senior to remain at home safely. The extent of their injury or illness simply requires too great a degree of medical care. In these instances private-duty nursing can help your loved