What is Home Care?
Simply put, home care is health care or supportive care provided by a professional caregiver in the patient’s home. Home care involves providing services from birth to the end of life and can be as simple as making a meal, to complex care such
as managing tracheotomies and feeding tubes.
Goals of Home Care
- Improve the health and quality of life of patients in their home
- Maintain patients' independence
- Provide support and education for patients and their caregivers
- Decrease hospitalizations
- Enhance the optimal growth and development of infants and children
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Personal Care
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Intermittent Skilled Care
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Extended Care
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- Includes personal care attendants (PCAs), home health aides
- Personal cares such as grooming, bathing, dressing
- Assistance with meal planning and prep
- Light housekeeping
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- Includes nurses, social workers, and therapists
- Coordination of services
- Disease assessment and monitoring
- Home safety assessments
- Patient and caregiver education
- Rehabilitation therapy (physical, occupational, speech)
- Medication education and management
- IVs
- Wound care
- Catheters
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- Includes nurses, therapists
- Nursing observation, monitoring, and assessments
- Life-sustaining interventions to prevent risk of long-term implications
- Trach cares
- Feeding tubes
- Ventilators
- Venipuncture
- Central line management
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Education Requirements
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Education
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Salary/Wage
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| Homemaker |
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On Job Training
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$15.50/hour |
| PCA |
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High School
Online Training
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$15.50/hour |
Home Health Aide
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75 Hours + Exam
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$17.60/hour |
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LPN
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1-2 Years
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$52,000/year
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| RN |
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2-4 Years
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$70,000/year |
Physical Therapist
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Doctor of Physical Therapy (current PTs without a doctorate may be grandfathered in)
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$86,000/year |
PT Assistant
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2 Years
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$59,000/year |
Occupational Therapist
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Master's Degree
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$77,000/year |
OT Assistant
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2 Years
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$58,000/year |
Social Worker
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Master's Degree
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$55,000/year |
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