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Contact: Shirley Freyer
Concordia Lutheran Ministries
Tel: 1-724-352-1571 x8266
sfreyer@concordialm.org

Concordia Visiting Nurses Private Duty Home Care Services What is a Home Care Aide?

Cabot, PA – Home care aides help people who are elderly, disabled, ill, and/or mentally disabled to live in their own homes. Most home care aides work with elderly or physically or mentally disabled clients who wish to remain in their homes and need more extensive, personal care than family or friends can provide. Some aides work with families in which a parent is incapacitated and small children need care. Others help discharged hospital patients who have relatively short-term needs.

Home care aides – also called personal care aides, homemakers, caregivers, companions, and personal attendants – provide housekeeping and routine personal care services. They clean clients’ houses, do laundry, and change bed linens. Aides may plan meals (including special diets), shop for food, and cook. Aides also may help clients get out of bed, bathe, dress, and assist with toileting and grooming. Some accompany clients to doctors’ appointments or on other errands.

The daily routine of a home care aide varies. Aides may go to the same home every day for months or even years. Aides often visit four or five clients on the same day; however, some aides may work solely with one client who is in need of more care and attention. In some situations, this may involve working with other aides in shifts so the client has an aide throughout the day and night.

Home care aides generally work on their own, with periodic visits by their supervisor. They receive detailed instructions explaining when to visit clients and what services to perform for them.

Aides are individually responsible for getting to the client’s home. They may spend a good portion of the workday traveling from one client to another. Aides must be careful to avoid over-exertion or injury when they assist clients. Work environment surroundings differ from case to case.

If you have any questions about Private Duty Services, or if you are interested in coming on board with Concordia Visiting Nurses as a home care aide, please don’t hesitate to call Mark Sarver, toll-free, at 1.877.352.6200 or e-mail him at msarver@concordiavn.org.

Contributed by: Mark Sarver, Director of Private Duty Services, Concordia Visiting Nurses