Homecare: Benefits of Using Homecare and Its Comparison With Facility Care

Introduction

If your family is in need of nursing care, you will have to choose either home care or institutional care. Nursing care can be broadly divided into “home care” and “facility care.” Home care is the care of a caregiver or family at home, while facility care involves entering a facility such as a nursing home to receive nursing care services.

The main attraction of choosing home care will be that you will be able to continue living at your home. Home care is the preferred choice if the family members who live with the care recipient can understand and cooperate with each other, or if they are able to maintain their daily lives without any major problems. In this case, it can be said that the advantage is that the frequency and type of service use by experts can be selected relatively freely according to the situation. In recent years, with the progress of nuclear families, the risk of falling together with the continued burden of care on certain families has increased. When choosing home care, both the care recipient and the caregiver will need to make good use of professional services to maintain their home life.

Benefits of Homecare

The first major advantage is the sense of security of the individual. Professionals can provide better care, but there is no doubt that having a caregiver family care for them is more secure than a stranger. In addition, home care allows you to take care of yourself in your home.

If you are home care, you can adjust and use the home care support service according to “the time you can dedicate to care” and “how much you want to reduce the care burden”. If you include “self-care”, where only the family members care, the order of the care load is as follows.

If you try to leave your care at a nursing home or other nursing home, you will inevitably increase the financial burden, such as occupancy costs and monthly fees.
Even if it is home care, it costs a little to prepare new equipment such as handrails, but it can still be much cheaper than institutional care.

Benefits of facility care

In nursing homes and other nursing homes, there are specialists such as caregivers and nurses, so if you move in, you can always receive appropriate medical care and nursing care. If you live in a nursing home, you can feel safe even if your situation suddenly changes. When you move into a nursing home, you may feel comfortable not only with your family, but also with the person who moved in, thinking that this will save your family.