What is home care service? What are its advantages?
Home care is a type of service that generally provides the basic care and support services needed by the elderly, disabled or chronically ill individuals in their own homes. These services may include activities such as providing support in daily living activities, personal care services, medication monitoring, home cleaning, and meal preparation. Home care services are designed to enable individuals to live in their own homes and are generally an important alternative for individuals who do not want to live in institutional care facilities. These services help individuals improve their quality of life and maintain their independence.
Advantages of Home Health Services
- By giving patients the opportunity to maintain their autonomy and self, they enable people to be happier in the environment they live in.
- Home Health Services allow patients the highest level of freedom they can achieve.
- Patients' communication with their environment allows them to recover faster.
- It is believed that the patient plays the role of a patient in the hospital and that playing this role delays recovery.
- There may be situations or diseases where it is more effective and more economical than hospital services.
- Home Health Services facilitate access to preventive health services. Thanks to Home Health Services, time management is provided for health check-up processes that are postponed due to lack of time.
- Home Health Services reduce unnecessary long-term hospitalizations.
- There is a decrease in hospital admissions, hospital stays and hospital infections.