Visiting Nurses, Helpers, and someone to check up on you.
This is not a solicitation.
I am hoping to get an understanding of the kind of services offered here and what different levels of care cost.
I am also curious about non-profits that offer those services, who they offer them to, and how highly is the demand for it.
I recently had a freak infection that got out of control and I ended up in the hospital. I’m not young, but I’m far from ready to move into a nursing home.
In my discharge paperwork they asked that I find someone that will check up on you once a week and that I make an arrangement for a nurse to come by and take my vitals. Well, on clarification that was meant for someone in far worse shape than me, as I’m perfectly capable of taking my own basic vitals and aside from the freak occurrence which landed me in the hospital I can normally get myself to a doctor if I need it.
However, I am getting older and part of that will be not recovering so fast or so easily and I should make myself aware of the kind of help that might be available, so if people could share whatever bits of knowledge of specific areas of on-going help for the elderly and the disabled and what support there is for people recovering in their homes.
The service I’d love to find would be some kind of cleaning service for when being really sick has left your place a total mess and you’re exhausted for recovering. I don’t know why I imagine someone showing up to help you clean. Hold the garbage bag. Help you carry stuff around. I hate cleaning alone. It’s always more fun when there’s someone to talk to. However, I suspect Cleaning Buddies is the one service that doesn’t exist.