Care Services in Charlotte
The Independent Living Services Provided by Comfort Keepers
Each Comfort Keepers client has unique care needs. That’s why we offer a full range of in-home services—to tailor care plans that provide our senior and other adult clients the right amount and types of help to support independent living at home. These services are provided by the special caregivers we call Comfort Keepers®, to promote independent living to its fullest. Examples of our services include:
In-Home Companionship and Care Services
Conversation and Companionship
Comfort Keepers® are available to provide clients company and engage in conversation, or to sit down to share a meal together. Social contact such as this is proven to enhance the health, happiness and quality of life of seniors.
Meal Preparation
Comfort Keepers® prepare hot, delicious, and nutritious meals, allowing clients to help with preparation according to their ability. Many seniors do not have the opportunity to eat a well-balanced meal, so this service helps seniors get the nutrition they need to enjoy healthier living.
Laundry
These services can be done in either the client’s home or the Laundromat, and include
washing, drying, ironing and putting things away. Comfort Keepers® involve clients to make sure laundry is done according to their preferences.
Light Housekeeping
Comfort Keepers® light housekeeping services include vacuuming, dusting, sweeping and mopping floors, cleaning bathrooms (sinks, tubs, showers, and toilets), cleaning kitchens (sinks, appliances, counters, taking out trash), straightening all rooms, organizing closets and drawers, and cleaning any interior windows that can be reached without a ladder. Comfort Keepers does not provide outdoor cleaning or maintenance.
Grocery Shopping/Errands
Comfort Keepers® shop for groceries at stores of their clients’ preference and run errands, such as picking up prescriptions or going to the post office. Clients may choose to stay home or help with the shopping and errands as an excellent way to stay active and engaged. Comfort Keepers will use any coupons provided.
Incidental Transportation
Comfort Keepers® provides transportation incidental to other care services, such as taking clients to medical appointments, barbershops, beauty salons, shopping, or wherever else a client wants to go. Getting seniors out and about is good for their mind, body and spirit—and an integral part of Comfort Keepers’ Interactive Caregiving™.
Medication Reminders
Although Comfort Keepers® cannot administer medications, they can help ensure that clients take their own medication as prescribed. Comfort Keepers can assist with opening medication containers, reading labels and reminding the client when it is time to take a dose.
To further assist clients in taking medications as prescribed, Comfort Keepers offers the SafetyChoice™ Medication Reminder System, an automated medication device that provides audible and visual reminders and dispenses medicine at the proper times and in the proper dosages. (link to SafetyChoice™ Medication Reminder System page)
Grooming Guidance
Comfort Keepers® assist clients with washing and combing their hair and other grooming tasks to enable them to feel good about their appearance.
Live-In Services
Comfort Keepers tailors care to each client’s needs—from a few hours a week to full-time care. Through our live-in services we provide full-time caregiving by a Comfort Keeper® who lives in the client’s home .to provide in-home care on a daily basis. The client and family may designate the types of non-medical in-home care services that are to be provided.
This service gives family members peace of mind, preventing gaps in coverage for individuals who may be at risk when unattended, such as those with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia-related conditions.
24-Hour Care
Depending on each client’s needs, Comfort Keepers® can provide from just a few hours of service a week to full-time in-home care. Through our 24-hour care service, a team of Comfort Keepers® coordinates caregiving responsibilities in shifts around the clock. This offers clients and their families full-time peace of mind.
Specific non-medical in-home care services can be tailored to meet each client’s specific needs. This type of continuous in-home care service is ideal for clients who are at risk when unattended, such as persons with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia-related conditions.
Respite Care or Relief for Family
Caregiving can be rewarding and often strengthens bonds within a family. At the same time, caregiving can be demanding amidst life’s other responsibilities.
Family caregivers and those in their care can benefit from a little time off from one another. That’s why Comfort Keepers offers respite caregiving. This service can be scheduled as needed to provide family caregivers time to run errands, go shopping or get some much-needed rest.
Going Home with Comfort Keepers
This program will provide post-hospital transportation, care, and support. We consult with your discharge planner, integrate services with Medicare providers, and provide numerous invaluable services to make your return home an easy transition, including transportation home, picking up medications, opening and cleaning home, and even 24-hour care for safety if needed.
Home Management Services
Our consultative approach and years of experience enable us to assist our clients by referring them to the appropriate professionals that can address any need that arises. From bill paying to balance specialists. From attorneys to plumbers to trust officers, from grab bars to medical equipment and supplies, we have the relationships to make your life easier.
Personal Care Services
*available in Sarasota County only
Bathing, Grooming and Hygiene
Comfort Keepers® help clients look and feel their best. These services enhance clients’ mental as well as physical well-being, helping them feel positive about their appearance. Bathing not only cleanses the skin, but goes deeper to refresh the spirit, provide relaxation and stimulate circulation.
Mobility Assistance
Comfort Keepers® assist clients as needed with mobility to help them maintain as active a lifestyle as possible. Being able to get out and about offers both physical and mental health benefits to seniors. Physical health benefits of activity include increased stamina and energy, a strengthened heart, lower blood pressure and improved digestion and sleep. In addition, activity improves mood, releases stress and increases mental alertness
Transferring and Positioning
Comfort Keepers® are trained to move and place clients in correct posture position to promote health and safety and proper functioning of the body’s many systems. Proper transferring and positioning from or into beds and chairs eliminates pressure areas on the skin, reduces weakening and stiffening of muscles, and encourages proper breathing, digestion and elimination.
Toileting and Incontinence Care
Comfort Keepers® compassionately and sensitively care for seniors and other adults, helping them maintain dignity and self-esteem as they receive help with the activities of daily living. Through this caring approach Comfort Keepers help to lessen clients’ embarrassment associated with the loss of independence related to incontinence and need for toileting assistance.
Feeding and Special Diet
For a number of reasons, adults may need help feeding themselves. This loss of independence can be difficult to accept. Comfort Keepers® understand this and make the extra effort to turn mealtime into an enjoyable social time.
In addition, Comfort Keepers help make certain that seniors and other clients stay on prescribed diets to prevent or control a wide variety of medical conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and osteoporosis. And in general Comfort Keepers enable clients to eat a well balanced diet that provides the energy needed for active living and nutrients for disease prevention, healing and healthful living.
Specialized Care Services
Dementia Care
Comfort Keepers® often care for clients challenged with varying degrees of dementia.
Some clients experience momentary lapses of memory or confusion. However, others, and their families, need assistance with challenges due to significant dementia or Alzheimer’s disease.
Comfort Keepers dementia care is provided by Comfort Keepers who have completed specialized training in communicating with and assisting persons with Alzheimer’s and other dementia-related conditions. They provide activities that help enhance the quality of life of persons with dementia, such as reminiscing, music and other activities that stimulate the senses.
To augment in-home care and provide a safe home environment, Comfort Keepers offers its own line of SafetyChoice™ devices, such as motion detectors, window and door contacts and floor mats that help monitor and protect persons with dementia who wander.
End-of-Life Care
Our compassionate Comfort Keepers® come to the aid of individuals who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness. We help them and their families with emotional and moral support as well as helping out around the home and providing personal and companionship care—whatever is needed.
Comfort Keepers can support the family directly or work in partnership with a hospice agency or medical provider to fully meet the family’s needs.
Our ultimate goal is to help families make the most of their time together, helping to lighten the burden at a very difficult time. Through respite care, we give family caregivers needed rest.
And we can continue to help after a loved one’s passing. Our Comfort Keepers help families deal with the grief and assist with tasks such as organizing personal items and moving belongings—or just being there to talk with.
Veterans Care Programs
Veterans or surviving spouses of veterans in need of in-home care may qualify for benefits through the Veterans Administration. Comfort Keepers is proud to serve those who have served our nation. We assist veterans and their spouses in the application process and provide in-home care services for approved participants in VA programs.
* Specific service offering varies by Comfort Keepers office location