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What does home care include?
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Home care is help you receive in your own home. It can include chore services and home health care that helps with daily activities like getting out of bed, getting dressed and making meals. It is often the first type of care people use.
Key points
- Often the first step on the care continuum.
- Helps with activities of daily living.
- Can also give family caregivers a break.
Lauren FinkFounding attorney, Everbright Legacy Law
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Home care is often the first thing that individuals who require long-term care will encounter. So home care is care that you receive in your home. So you retain chore services. There might be home health care that’s coming in and helping you with some of your activities of daily living. They might be helping with getting out of bed, getting dressed, making meals, those different types of things. And then home care can also be a piece of respite care, where if you have a family caregiver who is taking care of you, we have many clients who have diagnoses of cognitive impairment, where a spouse is serving as a caregiver.
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