Most, but not all, states require licensing for home care agencies. Licensure usually means that criminal checks will be done on employees and that...

Many do, although the cost for care during non-traditional working hours may be higher.

The activities of daily living, or ADLs, are a way to determine what level of help you need from a caregiver. They include: Toileting and toilet hy...

Home caregivers may provide a broad range of services related to medical needs as well as ADLs (activities of daily living). Medical help may be in...

If you or your loved one is unable to manage most of the ADLs, or needs round-the-clock nursing care, a nursing home may be a better fit. A doctor...

You should be able to talk to the agency to have another caregiver assigned to you. But be sure you are not acting prematurely. It takes a while fo...

Although you will need to look at your policy documents to ensure that this is the case, most long-term care may be used to pay for a home caregive...

If you are working with an agency-provided caregiver, they will have substitutes who can come to your home when your regular caregiver is absent. I...

In terms of whether they will help pay for your care, the answer is probably no, since most home health care agencies are for-profit businesses. Bu...

Almost all agencies will give you a written care plan. This should include details about the tasks that the caregiver will undertake for you, detai...