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For home care assistance NY residents need look no further than Allen Health Care Services. We help you or a family member with the challenge of planning and transitioning to receiving medical or personal care within the comforts of home. Sometimes clients are confused about what illness, injury or disability qualifies for home care service.

When patients need help with activities of daily living or ADLs as they are known in the medical and insurance industries, a primary care doctor will usually recommend and prescribe home care assistance NY services for the patient. ADLs are those activities that people need to perform in order to live independently. They include using the toilet, eating, taking baths, dressing, transferring or moving and continence. When a patient is unable to perform two of these six activities, they typically qualify to receive long term care under an insurance policy that provides benefits for these services. In many cases, patients with long term care insurance policies can utilize Allen Health Care Services for in home care.

Another assessment used to determine whether a patient is eligible or needs home care aide is the instrumental activities for daily living or IADLs. These are daily tasks that everyone performs when they live independently and include running errands, meal preparation, paying bills and driving. Many families start seeking home care help when a loved one can no longer take care of their IADL tasks. 

Often family members have other obligations or commitments that do not enable them to have the time to assist a relative that needs daily care. Our services can provide that extra support to families so that the relative’s medical and physical needs are taken care of and family members have time to tend to their own daily lives as well.

In certain situations, full time home health care is not needed, and we can provide part time home care to assist patients when they only need a few activities handled. Certified home health aides coming in a few days a week can mean all the difference to an elderly patient’s sense of feeling independent. Allen Health Care Services offers certified home health aides as well as New York home health aides and New York companions for part or full time care. And of course, we provide Private duty home care NY as well.  Give us a call to learn more about our programs.