The Crucial First Days Home: Transitioning From Hospital or Rehab to Home
The transition from hospital or skilled nursing rehab back to home is a critical period in a senior’s recovery journey. This moment is characterized by changes in routine, medication, diet, and overall lifestyle adjustments. Despite the relief and joy of returning home, the first few days can be challenging and stressful, particularly for seniors. Understanding the importance of this transition can be key to ensuring a successful recovery and reducing the risk of readmission.
The hospital or rehab center provides structured and constant care, something that abruptly changes when one returns home. Suddenly, the responsibility of medication management, diet control, physical activities, and daily tasks shifts to the senior and their family caregivers.
During the initial days at home, seniors may face difficulties adjusting to their old environment, particularly if they are managing new physical limitations or changes in their health status. The home they remember may not be perfectly equipped for their new needs and they will need additional support.
Another vital aspect of a safe transition home is medication management. It’s not uncommon for a senior’s medication regimen to change after a hospital stay or rehab visit. Proper understanding and adherence to the new medication schedule are critical for recovery, and this can be an overwhelming task for them.
In addition to the physical care related concerns, feelings of vulnerability, frustration, or depression can creep in during these early days. Emotional well-being plays a massive role in the healing process, and it’s crucial to ensure there is support and reassurance in their home throughout this period.
So, how can we ensure a smooth transition during these critical early days at home?
Guided Living’s Welcome Home Packages are designed specifically for this transition period. These packages offer short-term help to seniors coming home from the hospital or rehab, filling the gap that can often exist when transitioning from a fully staffed facility back to the home environment.
Our Welcome Home Packages prioritize comfort and safety while supporting medication management, diet control, and physical activities as per the doctor’s instructions. Our team of highly skilled and certified caregivers understands the unique needs of seniors during this time and provides compassionate care, ensuring they adjust well to their home environment post-hospitalization or rehab.
But it’s not just about providing necessary care. It’s about providing peace of mind to both the senior and their family. We believe the healing process accelerates when one is surrounded by compassion, care, and the familiar environment of one’s home. This is what our Welcome Home Packages aim to deliver.
The first few days at home after a hospital or rehab stay are crucial. With Guided Living by your side, you don’t have to navigate them alone. Let us help you get back to your daily routine in the comfort of your own home. Contact us today to learn more about how our Welcome Home Packages can ease the transition back home and provide the care and support needed for a successful recovery journey.
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Guided Living’s success can be attributed to their culture. The agency is dedicated, professional and flexible to caregivers and clients.
The staff works in unison as a Team to provide outstanding care. Every day I get to make a difference in our clients’ world!
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Home Health Care is a challenging and rewarding field. As a CNA, I’ve found myself devoted to this field because of how rewarding it is to give compassionate care to others.
However, working for agencies I’ve found you are often looked at as just another badge number with hours to fill. My experience with the Team at Guided Living changed that perspective. The office staff understands me and respects me. Not only as a caregiver, but as an individual as well. Because of this support I’m able to excel as a caregiver and exceed even my own expectations.
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It is hard to describe the panic triggered after a fall resulted in a fractured shoulder and humerus. A relatively healthy senior, suddenly I was unable to perform many activities of daily living and my independence was profoundly threatened. For help, I called Guided Living Senior Home Care and arranged daily assistance. Not only did they help with a variety of tasks, but their presence provided me with the opportunity to rest, an essential element to recovery. After several weeks, I gradually progressed. Today I can live independently, as I continue therapy to restore mobility.
My progress was enhanced by the gentle and kind assistance of your CNAs. They were prompt and competent, always professional and respectful as we worked through the stresses of recovery. I doubt that I could have remained at home alone without them. Please extend my gratitude to your staff who served me.
I am happy to share my experience with others and will continue to recommend your organization to seniors who find themselves in need of help at home. Good luck to you and the valuable services you provide.
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Guided Living has been a life saver for my 91 year old father and our entire family following his brief stay at a nursing home after having a heart attack. We lost our mother the year before and myself and my siblings (some of whom live in other states) were worried about his continued recovery after he returned home. He would still need 24/7 care at home for a short while and we only had four days’ notice when the nursing home told us he was going to be released. I called Guided Living on Tuesday morning, met with them on Friday and a caregiver was at his house on Saturday when he came home! From my very first phone call to Guided Living we have experienced only warm and caring personal attention to our every need. All the staff are calm and pleasant whenever we talk and are always there for us no matter the time of day or how big or small our problem. It is like calling on a friend or loved one for help. We had a family meeting after 24/7 care was no longer necessary and decided to stay with Guided Living five days a week with a few hours of help in the morning and in the evening. The two CNA’s who help our father every week have become like family to us. We admire and trust them so much. They are very professional but so personal in their caregiving. We have such peace of mind knowing he is not alone all day and he likes knowing he has time to himself every afternoon. Two of us live close to my father and we treasure the time we spend helping him on the weekends. Our father always said as he got older that he never wanted to intrude on his children’s lives. As his children we feel very deeply that we want to be there for him in every way possible in this final chapter of his life. Guided Living has allowed all of us to be happy with the very custom care schedule they have set up. We are very grateful and wish the same for every family facing a situation similar to ours.
Recently my family required support after the sudden illness and subsequent death of my father. The Guided Living team responded immediately, supporting my mother, an Alzheimer’s patient, during a very difficult time of transition. Every caregiver assigned to care for her was warm and attentive. The Guided Living office was professional and reliable with their scheduling, troubleshooting, and communication. Any question I had was answered immediately, and I was given full access to the Guided Living online Dashboard which allowed me to leave messages for the companion on duty, view the week’s schedule of caretakers, and see the tasks completed by each. My mother felt safe and comfortable. I will always be grateful that Guided Living was there for my family, and I highly recommend their care to other families in need.
I am so pleased at how everything has worked out these last few months and now with a trip to the hospital and home again for my aunt and we want to pause for a moment to thank you and your team very much!My sister and I were just recently saying to one another how fortunate we and my aunt are to have you and your constant care and effort. It is so reassuring!
We know this latest event must have been very scary for all involved – my aunt the most – and it is so great we can all celebrate a return home for her today. Please thank all of the caregivers and nurses!!!!
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Professional, knowledgeable, responsive and caring. Hands down over and above any and all expectations. Available at all times for all questions! I have been so impressed and grateful for the help and guidance through some very difficult times!!
I am writing to thank you for the wonderful service you have provided for my parents. We greatly appreciate that you were able to provide customized care and rearrange schedules to meet my parents changing needs. We met you in a time of need for my family and you have offered support in every regard and allowed us to feel comfortable and confident that my folks needs were being met. You have gone above and beyond and we are deeply grateful.
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The initial referral came over a holiday weekend and still they could provide excellent coverage. Staff worked very well with the VNA case manager to alert us to problems. Office staff were friendly and helpful, and very responsive.
All the caregivers assigned to my husband were wonderful. They brought a little sunshine into his last days and I am so grateful Patrick started this business.
Your caregivers are terrific. They are professional, compassionate and genuinely concerned about their clients. Guided Living is a very reliable service that our family appreciates. They communicate well with the family and keep us informed of any situation that requires further or immediate intervention.
If the nurse did not visit my mother while I was on vacation, she would most likely have died-alone and would have been found by a family member. Thanks to the nurse my mother was admitted to the hospital and had a good death-in comfort receiving medical care surrounded by her family. Amazingly dedicated staff. I will be forever grateful.
The care, professionalism and observation skills of the HHAs are excellent. They are very quick to notice changes and problems. They are of great help.
My parents would not have been able to live out their final weeks at home without the services provided.
Great team of people. I have recommended you to a number of my patients, who have all been very pleased with the services.
We are very happy with the nurse assigned. She provides exceptional care. My mother looks forward to her visits. We are also happy with the professionalism and courteousness of all the staff.
We are extremely happy with my husband’s caregiver. She is very caring, reliable, and efficient in everything she does.
You have a great team of people working for you. I cannot thank them enough for all their help with my father in law.
Guided Living has given me peace of mind as I live 4 hours away from my parents. Everyone who has taken care of my mom has been wonderful. Thank you Patrick for having such excellent staff.