As your mom’s health worsens, she has a harder time with hygiene and grooming. While it’s clear she needs help with bathing, dressing, and other personal care needs, she doesn’t want you helping. It’s time for your family to look at personal care at home.

Assistance With Toileting

Your mom’s caregiver can remind her to use the toilet, help her sit down and stand up, and clean her up after she goes. If she has a catheter or other device that helps her body get rid of waste, however, her caregiver cannot help with those. Skilled nurses would have to be hired separately.

Help With Oral Care

Your mom’s caregiver can brush and floss her teeth. If she has dentures or a partial plate, her caregiver can clean those. But, your mom still needs to see her dentist regularly. If she has a tooth infection, she’ll have to see her dentist.

If your mom’s dentist requires a tooth extraction, the medical care following that extraction is not something a personal care aide can manage. You’d need to look into home health care professionals for that.

Help With Bathing

Your mom’s caregiver can help her get out of pajamas and wrap her in a towel. Once the water is warm enough, her caregiver can help her step into the tub, help her bathe, and rinse her body. If your mom requires a shower seat, her caregiver can set it up and ensure she’s seated properly.

After washing her hair, the caregiver will help her dry off and apply moisturizer. Her caregiver then helps her choose her clothing for the day.

Reminders to Take Medications

Given that your mom’s doctor prescribed medications to help her with her chronic health issues. While her personal care aide can remind her to take her medications, the caregiver cannot administer them. If your mom needs injectable medications or IV medications, a personal care aide cannot do them.

Help With Dressing

Once your mom’s dried and knows what she wants to wear, her personal care aide will help her get dressed. Her caregiver can button buttons, snap snaps, and zip zippers. If your mom needs her shoes tied, her caregiver helps her.

Help With Skin and Nails

When it comes to nail care, her personal care aides help her. Your mom’s caregiver can trim her finger and toe nails, apply nail polish if desired, and moisturize the cuticles.

Your mom’s caregiver can apply skin cream to your mom’s feet, hands, and the rest of her body. But, if there are sores or infections, your mom’s personal care aide has to alert you. The care aides cannot clean wounds. Instead, home health care aides are needed.

Finally, how do you arrange personal care at home? Fill out the online form or call a representative with your questions to learn about the cost of personal care aides.

Aviva In-Home Care provides compassionate and skilled in-home care. We are the Bay Area’s premier provider of in-home care services.

If you or an aging loved one are considering hiring professional Personal Care at Home in Belmont, CA, call the caring staff at Aviva In-Home Care. Call today: (415) 795-2203

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Evan Loevner

CEO at Aviva In-Home Care

As a former hospital administrator, I launched Aviva with the goal of having a more focused, direct impact on the delivery of care than I could ever accomplish within a hospital setting. For me, the joy of running an organization like Aviva In-Home Care is having the ability to positively improve the lives of individuals needing customized care. As a passionate Bay Area resident, I know that many local seniors can benefit from new approaches to in-home care, that will bring them more connection to the community, and provide families with a greater sense of comfort that their loved one is indeed matched with an ideal caregiver.

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