Long Term Care Programs
A strength of Family Life Care is our dual licensure as both a Medicare Certified Home Health Agency and a Nurse Registry. As one of the first agencies in Florida to simultaneously hold both licenses, Family Life Care is in a rare position. By providing both short term, post acute and long term care, Family Life Care prevents patients from having to deal with multiple providers. Coupled with our accredited care management services, complete living solutions can be recommended and implemented for the patient.
Long term, in-home care can be utilized for many situations and provided at many different levels of care. Family Life Care is proud to serve client's with long term care needs at every level of care.
Skilled Nursing in long term care settings can be regular visits for a particular medical necessity such as a bowel regimen, wound care, or catheter change. In other instances, nurses may be required around the clock for some bed bound patients.
Family Life Care has developed specialty Physical and Occupational Therapy programs for patients with progressive neurological disorders including ALS, Alzheimer's and Dementia, Multiple Sclerosis, and Parkinson's Disease. It has been proven physical and occupational therapy can slow the progression of these disorders in a long term, in home environment.
Assistance with Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) is the most common long term care setting. From a few hours a day to around the clock coverage, Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA) and Home Health Aides (HHA) provide assistance with bathing, dressing, toileting, oral care, feeding, transfers and help with ambulation. Often referred to as Personal Care or Hands On Care, these services require the CNA or HHA to physically contact the patient.
Homemaking and Companion care provides assistance with Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs). IADLs are activities that do not require physical contact with the patient. In situations where assistance with AD Ls are not required, no specific training is required of homemakers or companions. If ADLs are required in addition to IADLs, the CNA or HHA can also provide the assistance with meal preparation, light housework, laundry, errands and similar IADL tasks.
Care Management is often a long term service, In addition to an initial assessment and recommendations, our Care Managers are often retained to coordinate all of the associated services necessary for a patient to safely remain in their own home and regularly assess the changing needs of the patient updating the long term care plan.
Long-term care can be expensive. How people pay for care depends on their financial situation, their eligibility for assistance programs, and the kinds of services they use. People often rely on a variety of payment sources, including: personal funds, government programs (Medicare, Medicaid and VA), long term care insurance, and reverse mortgages. Family Life Care has programs in all of these payment areas to serve patients in their own homes.