In-Home Care in Northville, Michigan

At Comfort Keepers® of Northville, Michigan, providing high-quality in-home care for others is as natural as helping our own elderly loved-ones.

We embrace the high-accountability our clients hold us to as we work to provide the highest-quality senior care.

While it is often a privilege and a joy for families to care for the needs of an elderly loved-one, we realize that time and distance can often get in the way. That’s why we offer a variety of service options to meet the exact needs of your elderly loved-one. Our caregivers always seek the higher good and work to uphold the principles of integrity and responsibility that our company is founded upon.

About Our Senior Care Service

Our Process

We strive to make the in-home elder care process as simple as possible. After a family has identified the need for additional help in the home of their senior loved one, we provide a free in-home assessment. We present families with the many service options that we offer, and we are always delighted when families realize that they do not have to do it all on their own. Each family can be as involved in the senior care process as they would like, and we encourage open communication between the family, the caregiver and the office.

Our Plan

Our goal is to care for your elderly loved-one by providing the best senior care plan for them. Our intake nurse pays specific attention to diagnoses and conditions to match your elderly loved-one with the best care plan. At Comfort Keepers, each caregiver is always well-informed about your senior’s care plan and any specific requests from your family and the senior’s physician and home medical team.

We are concerned for each client’s wellness, in addition to their illness, which is why we integrate our Interactive Caregiving^® model into every elder care service plan, helping caregivers and clients to engage mentally, physically, emotionally and socially.

Our Promise

We pledge to provide the highest-possible quality senior care to each client. That is the reason for the rigorous screening process each potential caregiver must pass. To be a part of the Comfort Keepers team, each potential caregiver must pass extensive national and local background checks and must have an acceptable driving record. Additionally, every caregiver is fully-covered regarding Workman’s’ Comp and bonding insurance.  A very important fact is that for every employee, Comfort Keepers takes sole responsibility for payroll taxes and deductions.

Arriving On-Time

Comfort Keepers use a real-time clock-in/clock-out system, which requires caregivers to ‘punch in’ from the client’s home phone line (toll-free). This allows the office to ensure that the caregiver has arrived in a timely manner. If the caregiver is more than 10 minutes late, the office pager is immediately alerted.

Accessible Online

You will be able to login online and view your elderly loved-one’s personal schedule so you can stay up-to-date on their senior care service wherever you happen to live.

Senior Care for Your Elderly Loved-One

There are certain issues which are unique to senior adults. If it is approved by the family, Comfort Keepers introduces a logbook which is kept in the senior’s home.  The following are examples of concerns that are addressed:

• Malnutrition, which is often very difficult to spot in seniors, can lead to a compromised immune system. Comfort Keepers caregivers assist seniors with feeding by offering seniors a variety of their favorite foods. Also, caregivers shop for or with the client, to take an active role in early intervention of nutritional problems.
• Maintaining personal hygiene habits are important to help prevent infections. This is especially true in the incontinent adult. Comfort Keepers caregivers establish a protocol of toileting, showering, and brief change/hygiene and carefully document each step.
• Medication noncompliance can lead to multiple dangerous health issues. Failure to take prescription medication properly is the reason for about 30% of all hospital check-ins of seniors over the age of 65. This is why Comfort Keepers offers several solutions, including SafetyChoice® technology solutions, to help ensure safe and effective medication administration. To learn more about this and more, check out the Technology Solutions on our website or feel free to call us anytime.
• Prevention of falls is one of our main concerns.  We offer falls-risk tools, which helps impulsivity, unsteady gait and mental status changes. Additionally, Comfort Keepers can evaluate the senior’s home and offer suggestions and solutions for making it a safer place to live.

Care of Seniors with Disabilities

Comfort Keepers has a great deal of experience in working with seniors with a variety of individual needs and disabilities, including sensory, physical, neurological and psychiatric. While many of our senior clients have used our 24-hour care service, some only required regular bath visits. When determining a senior’s service care package, we address:

• Specific nutritional needs
• Transferring and functional abilities
• Communication
• Interests
• Physical activity 
• Intricate medication regimens
• And more

One of the main benefits of our elder care plans for the disabled is our focus on the senior’s ability to remain as socially and physically active as possible. This allows them to enjoy better circulation, increased mobility and an overall healthier outlook on life.

Care of Seniors Recently Discharged from Rehab or the Hospital 

For seniors who have recently been discharged, our screening criteria includes the senior’s strengths, limitations, activity level, diet and need for any follow-up care.  Our caregivers are here for you as a valuable resource, creating a seamless transition from hospital to home.

We design our senior care plan to coordinate with the client’s individual condition. Following family approval, a logbook is kept in the senior’s home, addressing these and other issues:

• CHF – many seniors must log their weight, dietary and liquid intake, urine output and activity levels.
• Diabetes – many seniors require frequent inspection of the feet and footwear, as well as adequate home lighting. Our caregivers also encourage proper dietary compliance.
• COPD – many seniors are at risk of oxygen deficiency, which can lead to dizziness and falls. With this care plan, our caregivers will make sure the senior sits at the edge of the chair or bed before rising.

Care of a Senior on Hospice

Whether in a facility or with in-home care, the focus of hospice care is specific and unique to each senior. The elder care service may involve dressing, repositioning, bathing, reading to your elderly loved-one or helping them participate in a religious custom.

Comfort Keepers also provides respite care solutions for the primary caregivers, giving you an opportunity to experience needed relief from your hospice care responsibilities. 

Whether your elderly loved-one needs a short bath visit or 24 hour care, Comfort Keepers will customize an in-home care solution for your loved one.  In this time of need, we are committed to supporting your family so that you have the opportunity to spend quality time with your elderly-loved one. Leave the work to us.

We individually tutor and train each hospice caregiver, selecting each because of their resolve to promote respect and dignity not only to the hospice recipient, but to the family as well. Each hospice caregiver has consistently demonstrated their ability to deliver hospice care in a calm, compassionate manner.

Care of Seniors Seeking Companionship

As our Northville seniors live in the comfort of their own homes, they seek to continue the lifestyles they are accustomed to. However, if a senior cannot or does not drive, this can be virtually impossible. A senior may want to:

• Run errands
• Visit friends
• Attend mass or church
• Go shopping 
• Participate in a community center event
• And more

Comfort Keepers provides convenient transportation services, allowing seniors to regain their freedom. 

Additionally, each caregiver is carefully matched with each senior client, according to the senior’s abilities, needs, personality and interests. This gives them the opportunity to become friends. We believe that a senior should feel comfortable with their caregiver, which is why caregivers interact with seniors through companionship care, establishing lasting relationships.

Location

Email: northville@comfortkeepers.com