Home health care is just one of the options for your senior if she needs medical assistance and doesn’t want to leave her home. This type of care can offer some huge benefits to your elderly family member as she heals and may even give her a better chance at healing quickly.

Your Senior’s Mental Health Is Better at Home

Most people are happier at home and experience better mental health when they’re at home. For your senior, this can mean that being able to come home from the hospital or avoid going to the hospital can give her a huge mental health boost that she needs. That’s especially important whether she’s recovering from an illness or experiencing difficulties with a chronic health issue.

Your Senior Can Avoid a Nursing Home

In some cases, your elderly family member might be facing a big decision. Moving to a nursing home or other type of assisted living facility could be one option, but is it the right one for her? If her goal has been to age in place for as long as possible, she may be more open to having home health care providers visiting her on a regular basis rather than moving.

Home Health Care Can Manage Symptoms and Small Issues

Home health care services work closely with your senior’s medical providers to establish and to follow a care plan for managing her illnesses or injuries. These health care providers are able to manage her symptoms, take vital signs, watch for changes in her health, and deal with small issues right there in your elderly family member’s home. She doesn’t have to worry about going to the hospital or to her doctor’s office for every little change.

Your Senior May Recover Faster at Home

All of this can add up to your senior recovering much faster at home. When your elderly family member is able to stay in an environment that she loves, that gives her a huge boost emotionally and physically. It’s also easier for friends and family members to stop by and offer her encouragement. In other types of living situations, that might not be as easy and your senior might end up feeling more isolated than ever. That can set back her healing in a big way.

Being your senior’s family caregiver is a series of big decisions. Helping your elderly family member to meet her goals for managing her health could be as simple as finding ways to keep her at home for as long as you can.

If you are considering Home Health Care Services in Lexington OH, call the caring staff at Central Star Home Health at (419) 610-2161.  Providing services for families in Mansfield, Lexington, Bellville, Crestline, Galion, Shelby, Ashland, Ontario and the surrounding areas.

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Stephen Sternbach

CEO at Central Star Home Health Services

With over 35 years of experience, Stephen Sternbach has been the Chairman of the Board of Directors, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Star Multi Care Services since 1987. After the sale of the New York and New Jersey operations of Star Multi Care Services, Sternbach brought the company private where he remains President and CEO of this 40-million dollar company. With Sternbach at the helm, Star Multi Care Services employs more than 650 employees, in six offices throughout Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York.

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