What is Home Health Care?
Home Health Care includes any professional health support services that allow a person to live safely in their home and avoid unnecessary hospitalisation. The common goal of all BAYADA Home Health Care services is to help our clients live safely at home with comfort, independence, and dignity, and to provide support and peace of mind for their families.
In-home care services can help someone who:
– is aging and needs assistance to live independently
– is managing chronic health issues
– is recovering from a medical setback
– has special needs or a disability
BAYADA professional caregivers such as nurses, health care assistants, and allied professionals provide short or long-term care in the home, depending on a person’s needs.
The care you need in the place you love – your home
Home health care can be the key to achieving the highest quality of life possible, in the comfort and familiarity of home. It can enable our clients to live safety, securely, and independently at home; it can ease their management of an ongoing medical condition; it can help avoid unnecessary and stressful hospitalisation; it can aid and speed recovery after an illness, injury, or hospital stay. Home health care can include:
- Physiotherapy and rehabilitative services
- Short or long-term nursing care for an illness, disease, or disability—including tracheostomy and ventilator care
- Help with personal care and daily activities such as dressing and bathing
- Assistance with managing tasks around the house safely
Types of home health care
BAYADA Home Health Care is personalised client by client. Everyone’s needs are different and we tailor the home health care package to suit your needs and your situation.
Contact the BAYADA team today to discuss your needs and we will help determine what care is best for you.
HOME HEALTH CARE
Customised recovery care at home following a hospital stay, illness, or injury – or to help manage chronic conditions proactively, including cardiac, wound, orthopaedic, diabetes, respiratory and neurological, to help prevent unnecessary hospitalisation.
Also known as…
Respite Care, Convalescence Care
Ongoing, compassionate care to clients who are managing complex medical needs or conditions, such as spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, MND, MS, and more – we specialise in tracheostomy and ventilator nursing care.
Also known as…
Long-term nursing care, tracheostomy care, ventilator care, adult nursing, home nursing
Help at home with everyday activities like dressing, bathing, toileting, mobility, meal preparation, and light housework, to help reduce the risk of accidents. It also includes compassionate care for a loved one living with dementia.
Also known as…
Home care, assistive care, or companion care
EXAMPLES OF CARE SERVICES
Home Health Care services may include:
- Short-term nursing care services to avoid an unnecessary hospitalisation, including cardiac, wound, orthopaedic, diabetes, respiratory and neurological
- Recovery care at home following a hospital stay, illness, or injury
- Physiotherapy
- Health care assistant services
Home Nursing Care services may include:
- Care for diseases and conditions such as Traumatic brain injury (TBI), Spinal cord injury (SCI), MND, MS
- Ventilator care
- Tracheostomy care
- Monitoring vital signs
- Administering medications
- Ostomy/gastrostomy care
- Feeding tube care
- Catheter care
Home Help Care services may include:
- Assistance with personal care, such as bathing, dressing, and toileting
- Enabling safety at home by assisting with ambulation, transfer (e.g. from bed to wheelchair, wheelchair to toilet), and fall prevention
- Assistance with meal planning and preparation, light housekeeping, laundry, errands, medication reminders, and escorting to appointments
- Companionship and engaging in hobbies and activities
- Care and companionship for someone with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease
HOW IS CARE PROVIDED?
Home Health Care needs to be prescribed by your GP. Care is provided through visits from specialised clinicians that last up to an hour, on a short-term basis until individual recovery targets are met.
Home Nursing Care is provided primarily in shifts, up to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Home Help does not need to be prescribed by a doctor. Personal care and companionship is provided on an ongoing basis on a schedule that meets a client’s needs, up to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.