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One important goal home care service provides is to ensure that elderly, disabled and ill patients receive good quality, compassionate, and personal care. Home care service is developed to meet the needs of a patient by giving personalized service at their home. In this article, I will be taking list and compare home care both of its advantages and disadvantages. Through this, every reader will benefit in deciding whether to adapt this health service or not. Advantages of home care: Warmth and love of family members at home is incomparable. Feeling it is very important to the patient making him/her happy and in good mood, thus promoting good health and a faster recovery. The family has the authority to choose the caregivers. The fewer the caregivers you get, the closer and the more their personal relationship to the patient becomes. The family will feel no guilt and the patient will not feel being abandoned by the family members. Having an elderly patient, it serves as a gift of gratitude for the years he/she has taken a good care of you. This will make the patient feel being cared and appreciated. When at home, the patient will feel being truly cared. Home is where a feeling of comfort, privacy and security are felt, thus recoveryof the patient willbe fast and easy. Strong and valuable relationship between the patient and family members will be developed. Home care is much cheaper. Summing up all the expenses that will take for the recovery of the patient, home care service costs lesser than costs in medical centers. The family can easily monitor the health of the patient, and if emergencies happen they can readily respond to it. Disadvantages of home care: Some family members might not be prepared in taking huge responsibilities which is usually long-term commitment. Some people also don't like the security risk of hiring an outsider and having him or her staying under the same roof. Although you can always screen potential hires to the T, there are still some instances where are givers may take advantage. Most patients require more intensive or advanced medical facilities than what home care provides. Home service isn’t equipped with advanced emergency response system like CPRs that is placed at elderly health care facilities. The patient might not get privacy and time. Some medical conditions require privacy and isolation for a speedy recovery of the patient. Seeing a family member at your home in pain is really hard, especially elderly loved ones at the final stage of their lives. Complications between family members could affect the care level to the patient thus, leading to a slow recovery. Joseph works at Compare All Care. In his free time he writes articles on the different aspects you need to consider when trying to compare care homes.
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