Services Offered: Homemaker / Companion

Clients with a high degree of independence who do not have a severe medical condition that requires active monitoring can benefit from homemaker services. Some examples of activities that are covered under our homemaker services:

• Companionship & safety supervision
• Family respite care
• Medication reminders
• Meal preparation
• Shopping & errands in client’s car
• Light housekeeping
• Alzheimer’s & dementia care
• Laundry & linens
• Hospice supportive care
• Incidental transportation in client’s car
• Writing letters
• Prompting & mental cueing
• Help with hobbies or crafts
• Reading books or periodicals
• Taking walks
  • Guiding a client by the elbow
  • Walking next to the client
  • Steadying a walker with one hand and the other hand on the clients elbow
  • (Companions NEVER lift, hold-up, or transfer clients)
• Setting up social functions and entertaining
• Friendly conversations
• Grocery shopping
• Assisting with meal planning/meal serving
• Light housekeeping
• Mopping/sweeping/vacuuming floors
• Washing and arranging dishes
• Cleaning kitchen counters and appliances
• Cleaning and organizing cupboards
• Taking out the garbage
• Cleaning the bathtub and shower area
• Cleaning the bathroom sinks and toilets
• Dusting, organizing, and tidying up rooms in the house
• Making the beds
• Changing the linens
• Washing, drying, and putting away the laundry
• Ironing clothes
• Running errands for you in employee car
• Providing transportation to appointments or social activities in client’s car
• Providing transportation to visit friends and neighbors in client’s car
• Pet care and pet monitoring, if appropriate
• Buttoning, unbuttoning
• Tying, zipping, unzipping
• Handing clothes
• Assistance with shoes and stockings (companions may not assist with TED Hose)
• Drawing the bath water
  • Companions NEVER lift or transfer into or out of tub or shower
  • Companions NEVER trim fingernails or toenails
• Bringing or purchasing the newspaper
• Bringing in the mail
• Playing games or cards
• Renting and watching movies
• Answering the door and telephone
• Dropping off and picking up clothes to be dry cleaned
• Going out to/for meals
• Assisting with mailing letters, bills, or packages

 

Call Care IV Home Health or email Care IV Home Health for fast and friendly attention or for more information on how we can best meet home care and home health needs in Arkansas.

Staff available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to serve needs as they arise.