SENIOR SERVICES
Team Spotlight Homecare Services
Senior Services has a caring team of professionals who provide three levels of in-home care to homebound community seniors and adults with adaptive needs. Our goal is to allow our clients to safely remain in their homes. After an assessment, our home care assistants create a personalized service plan based on the unique needs of each client. “We have a service plan that is tailored to the client, not only addressing what they need physically, but also what they are interested in, such as activities where they get out of the home and go to the movies, play bingo or participate in tailored exercise programs,” said Erin Manuel, HCA Manager. “But it is all about the client and their comfort level. Some are still nervous to come out post-pandemic, so we con6
SPRING 2023
tinue to meet with them virtually and create crafts and activities that can be taken with our caregivers into the home to do with them. We want to make sure that there’s that interaction, that there is that companionship taking place.” Home Care provides three levels of assistance: Level I – Basic housekeeping, mopping, sweeping, laundry, companionship and nutrition. Level II – Level I and personal care assistance with bathing, dressing and walking. Level III – Light housekeeping and more extensive personal care assistance with bathing, dressing, grooming, transferring and toileting. “We want people to understand that
