Why Choose A Licensed, Bonded Home Care Agency in Las Vegas, NV and the Surrounding Area?

Learn the important difference between choosing a licensed, bonded home care agency versus employing a private caregiver for your loved one in the Las Vegas, NV area.

When a loved one needs care, families nowadays have several options to choose from, including working with a licensed, bonded, and insured home care agency or hiring a private caregiver. While both options include providing care at home for the client, they differ in many other ways. To be able to determine which solution is better for your loved one, it is important to understand those differences and how they influence the entire caregiving experience. 

Setting Up Care 

There are many things you need to consider before a caregiver starts caring for your loved one. When you choose private caregiving, you are basically in charge of the whole behind-the-curtains process. 

This means you need to interview potential candidates, check their backgrounds and qualifications, determine a plan of care, discuss taxes and insurance, and ensure you have a system of overseeing and assessing performance. 

On the other hand, when you opt for a home care agency, you do not have to worry about any of these things. Here is how it all works with agencies: 

• Respectable agencies have a rigorous hiring system in place that includes not just education, background, and reference checks but also several rounds of interviews with experienced care coordinators. 
• Agencies provide training to their caregivers and make sure they are always up to date with the latest industry practices. 
• Agencies have employees so they are responsible for taxes and other costs.
• Agencies develop plans and schedules of care based on your input and can make changes to them whenever needed.
• Agencies provide monitoring and check how their caregivers are performing and how their clients are satisfied with the provided services. 
• Agencies are always available to answer your questions and work with you toward finding a solution to any problem. 

At Comfort Keepers, we do all of this and more. We know that you may have a lot on your mind and that it is not easy letting a stranger in your home. We work hard to set up care for our clients so we would meet their expectations from the very beginning and provide their families with the ultimate peace of mind that absolutely every aspect of care is taken care of. 

Personalization & Flexibility

When it comes to actual care, working with a home care agency is not just easier because everything is determined well in advance and based on your family’s requests, schedule, and budget but because the care itself is more personalized, with the possibility of making changes at any time. 

With a private caregiver, it can be somewhat difficult to make last-minute changes or ask for care modifications. For instance, many private care providers are simply not qualified or equipped to offer specialized care like dementia care. 

On the other hand, a care agency employs many professionals with different skills and qualifications so your loved one can receive absolutely any type and level of care they require. 

At Comfort Keepers, we offer not just basic home care but dementia & Alzheimer’s care, end of life care, respite care, transitioning care, and much more, all customized to your loved one’s needs. 

Moreover, our home care agency can meet requests for weekend, overnight, holiday or 24/7 care, unlike many private caregivers. 

Another point to consider is that when a private caregiver is sick or wants to go on vacation, you need to find their replacement and explain your loved one’s needs and situation all over again. With a care agency like ours, you can rest assured that your loved one will get a suitable replacement, fully informed about their care needs. 

If you would like to reap all the benefits of working with a home care agency, learn more about us and how we can help your loved one or set up your free at-home consultation, please contact us today. We are always here for you! 

Give us a call at (702) 381-1570 to learn more!