2006-08-27 19:34:45 · 3 answers · asked by Pooh 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Community Service
the word "home" here mean love, care, warmth, shelter.
2006-08-27 19:38:31 · answer #1 · answered by PunkGreen1829 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They provide non medical care for aging and disabled people in their homes. The service is called respite care.
Home Instead allows them to remain in their homes, and not have to go into a nursing home.
They help people with their activities of daily living, such as:
Dressing
Bathing
Transferring
Continence
Feeding and so forth.
2006-08-27 19:38:34 · answer #2 · answered by tina m 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With dementia/Alzheimer's patients...it is often not an actual physical place...but rather....a place where they feel secure, safe, loved...and have a regular schedule, a routine that gives them a mental comfort....
Dementia and Alzheimer's patients often find their world shrinking around them, cocooning until they live in fewer rooms in their house, they go "out" to fewer places, they handle fewer and fewer responsibilities....they shrink their world to something they can "deal" with ...feel safe in ....
2006-08-27 19:42:44 · answer #3 · answered by Gemelli2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋