Making the decision to place a loved one in a nursing home is often one of the most stressful times in ones life. However, there are many alternatives one can choose to avoid this fearful decision. The most popular alternative is to choose a home health agency that provides health and medical services to ill or disabled individuals through in-home visits.
There a hundreds of different home health agencies across the country, but there is a new agency in Lafayette, Indiana that aims to better the world, one life at a time. Homecare by Design provides in-home skilled nursing services to seniors and people with disabilties. Owner Traci Goudy said some clients receive nursing care 24 hours a day and some just need a few hours of companionship a week. “We offer a variety of layers of care, starting with our catered care one package. Those people may just need a little bit of laundry help or transportation, maybe some cooking and cleaning. All the way through our catered care three package which is more of that hands-on, heavy care for maybe those people who are bed-bound, or wheelchair-bound,” said Goudy.
For Florence Sobczyk, 86, of West Lafayette, Indiana simply having the companionship of someone else is good enough for her. “We just kind of goof around, you know, and that’s about it. We just talk and laugh, and that’s really nice. I really enjoy them” she said. And, for her daughter Judi Jezierski, it puts her mind at ease knowing that her mother is in good hands and is enjoying her later years.
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