Pittsburgh - South Hills Home Care

Comfort Keepers^® in the South Hills of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the surrounding area serves a growing number of seniors who want to continue living in their own home and need some assistance with the activities of daily living.

Our comprehensive selection of in-home elder care services can be tailored to meet the exact needs of seniors and their families to preserve independent living, safety and quality of life in the comfort of home.

You will find that our compassionate caregivers—Comfort Keepers—and the unparalleled brand of elder care they deliver—Interactive Caregiving^®—are without equal. Comfort Keepers care is designed to keep seniors as active as possible to maximize their physical, mental and emotional health and well-being.

We invite you to call us today at 412-653-6100 to schedule a free in-home assessment, where you will learn how Comfort Keepers can help you or a loved one enjoy an optimal level of in-home living.

How Is Comfort Keepers Different?

In quality and effectiveness, elder care provided by Comfort Keepers stands out from that of other providers in very significant ways:

• Truly gifted caregivers. Our caregivers—Comfort Keepers—have an innate gift for helping seniors maintain independent living at home. Senior care is their calling—not a job. They bring true dedication to their profession and it shows in the satisfaction of their clients.
  
  We use a thorough screening process to find candidates who are called to be Comfort Keepers. We also look for people with good decision-making skills, a strong work ethic, a high standard of integrity, and an engaging personality with which to build strong, effective relationships with clients.  All candidates must pass reference and background checks, as well as interviews.
  
  Once hired and before they begin caring for seniors, Comfort Keepers complete extensive hands-on and online training to prepare for a wide range of caregiving services delivered in Comfort Keepers’ unique style—Interactive Caregiving®. We also offer incentives for Comfort Keepers to complete additional online training to further broaden their skills.
  
  Annually, Comfort Keepers complete 20 hours of continuing training to maintain and enhance their skills.
• Interactive Caregiving^®.   In keeping with Comfort Keepers’ distinctive style of caregiving—Interactive Caregiving®—our caregivers actively engage clients in activities of daily living, rather than allowing them to be passive recipients of care.
  
  This approach bolsters seniors’ feeling of independence and well-being. Comfort Keepers also regularly provide their clients ways to stay physically, mentally and socially active. They involve clients in activities based on the clients’ personal interests and abilities. Examples of such activities include walking, solving puzzles, playing games, reminiscing, engaging in hobbies, visiting friends and going places, such as shopping, church, visiting friends and attending cultural or social events.
  
  Numerous research studies have shown the health benefits enjoyed by seniors who stay mentally, physically and socially active.
• Client-caregiver matches. A key to Comfort Keepers’ success is carefully matching Comfort Keepers and clients based on personality, common interests, elder care needs and the caregiver’s training and skills. We regularly monitor the progress of caregivers and their clients and if a match isn’t working to the client’s or our satisfaction, we match the client with a new caregiver.

Partnering with Families

Comfort Keepers also serves the families of seniors, and we enable each family the flexibility to determine how involved they will be in their loved one’s senior care. We provide respite care services to give active family caregivers time away from the demands of caregiving, to rest for a few hours, to go on a vacation, to go to work or to take care of other responsibilities.

No matter how involved a family is in caregiving, Comfort Keepers maintains regular communications to keep family members up-to-date on their loved one’s care and status.

Comfort Keepers Services

Comfort Keepers offers a broad range of in-home elder care services. We can tailor them to meet each client’s and family’s needs.

• Companionship Care, including conversation and comforting companionship, provided in conjunction with household services, such as light housekeeping, meal preparation, transportation and errands, assistance with grooming and dressing, and medication reminders.
• Personal Care, which includes assistance with personal hygiene, such as bathing or showering, hair and skin care, incontinence care and toileting, help with mobility in and out of the home, and transferring in and out of bed and chairs.
• SafetyChoice™ by Comfort Keepers, which protects the safety and well-being of seniors when caregivers are not in the home. The SafetyChoice Personal Emergency Response System (PERS) makes it easy for seniors to immediately summon help, with the push of a button, in the event of a fall, illness or other emergency. The Comfort Keepers monitoring center is staffed for calls 24 hours per day/7 days per week for immediate response.
• Hospice Support provides personal and companionship care services to promote the comfort and quality of life of seniors and other clients receiving hospice nursing care.
• Post-Hospital Care and Support provides caregiving assistance to persons who are recovering at home following a hospital admission for surgery or treatment of an injury or illness.
• Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care services provided by Comfort Keepers enable persons diagnosed with dementia to safely live in the comforting surroundings of home.

Comfort Keepers clients are asked periodically to complete a survey to help us maintain our high quality of service and assure satisfaction of those we serve. In addition, our supervisors check in regularly with clients and their families to find out if there’s anything we can do to better meet their needs.

Our Partners

We continually develop and maintain a network of partnerships with other senior and health care providers in the region to provide seniors and their families easy access to a full range of elder care services to meet their changing needs. This network includes social workers and geriatric care managers, assisted living facilities, hospitals, and home health care and hospice agencies.

Always Ready to Serve

To provide our current and prospective clients timely service, we staff our phones 24/7. No matter the time of day or night you call, we’ll be able to help you with questions about Comfort Keepers services, respond to your need for service or schedule a free in-home assessment to help you learn how Comfort Keepers can serve you or a loved one. Call us at 412-653-6100. We look forward to serving you.

Areas We Serve:

• Belle Vernon
• Brentwood
• Charleroi
• Donora
• El Rama
• Elizabeth
• Finleyville
• Jefferson Hills
• McKeesport
• Monessen
• Monongahela
• Pittsburgh
• Pleasant Hills
• Sewickley Township
• South Park
• West Mifflin
• West Newton
• Whitehall

Location

Email: ck518@comfortkeepers.com