"Home Care" is a simple phrase that encompasses a wide range of health and social services delivered at home to recovering, disabled, chronically or terminally ill persons in need of nursing, therapeutic treatment and/or assistance with the essential activities of daily living.
Generally, Home Care is appropriate whenever a person prefers to stay at home but needs ongoing care that cannot easily or effectively be provided solely by family and friends. More and more older people, electing to live independent, non-institutionalized lives, are receiving home care services as their physical and cognitive capabilities diminish.
Home Care reinforces and supplements the care provided by family members and friends and maintains the recipient’s dignity and independence in the security and comfort of familiar surroundings.