*Services We Provide

Skilled Nursing

Realizing that healing comes only with the perfect combination of medical science and compassion, our visiting nurses at The Homemakers treat every client on a case by-case basis. Working with your physician, members of our professional nursing team at The Homemakers develop a plan of care that takes into consideration the physical, emotional, social and spiritual well-being of each patient and family.

Our skilled nurses will perform a comprehensive in-home assessment to ensure that all of the proper care is given, including case management, medical intervention, patient/family education medication management and more. In collaboration with your physician and family members, our skilled nursing team will manage your care from admission to discharge.

Our nurses provide patients with state-of-the-art IV therapy and wound care right in the comfort of home. In addition, patients requiring daily reporting of vital signs can do so through our telemonitoring services, without ever having to go to the physician’s office.

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Rehabilitative Therapies

The Homemakers provides comprehensive rehabilitation services to help you regain maximum level of function after an illness, injury, joint replacement or stroke. They will also teach you new ways of performing activities that were once routine.

The Homemakers rehabilitative therapies include: Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy and Speech Therapy.

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Home Health Aides

For adults with physical limitations, whether temporary or permanent, personal tasks such as bathing, grooming and dressing can be difficult. The Homemakers Home Health Aides are trained paraprofessionals who can assist with these tasks, helping people remain home and independent. Home Health Aides also monitor vital signs, help clients with transfers –moving from bed to chair - and assist with prescribed exercises.

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Medical Social Work

Medical social workers at The Homemakers help clients and their families in understanding the emotional, social and financial issues that often accompany a serious illness. Utilizing their vast knowledge of community resources, our medical social workers will assess the situation and aid patient and family members by making referrals to other community resources and assisting families with long term planning issues.

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Homemaker

Sometimes the only barrier a person has to overcome in order to stay at home is to have assistance with light housekeeping, meal preparation, shopping, laundry or other "housekeeping" tasks. Our homemaker program is designed to provide assistance in these areas.

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In-Home Care Providers

Companionship, respite and safety oversight services are offered through this program, as well as assistance with household duties such as light housekeeping, laundry and meal preparation.

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Safe at Home

The Safe at Home program is designed to help children or other caregivers meet the long distance health care needs of aging parents or relatives who live in Strafford County. Often children and other caregivers don't live close enough to their aging parents or relatives to be able to visit or check on them as often a they'd like. Through the Safe at Home program, a registered nurse oversees a broad spectrum of health care needs and services of an older person and keeps long distance family members informed of their loved ones health care needs and status.

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Alzheimer's Respite

Caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's disease or related dementias is a difficult, round-the-clock task performed by thousands in our community. Often caregivers become overwhelmed with the increased daily demands and feel that they have no support system to fall back on.

The Homemakers Health Services Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias program provides professionally trained staff who offer companionship and safety for loved ones, allowing caregivers time to run errands, take care of personal business, or just relax.

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Adult Day Care

The Homemakers’ Day Out, an adult medical/social day care program, is the oldest and most diverse program of its kind in Strafford County. Here, older and disabled participants receive the skilled care, stimulating activity and interaction with peers that they need to make each day as fulfilling as possible.

The services in this program include: transportation, exercise, education, meals, recreation, cultural activities and field trips, socialization and health screening and oversight.

The Day Out is designed to serve those adults in our community who for a variety of reasons, need a safe, structured place to go during the day.

Perhaps one of the greatest benefits of the program is that the families of Day Out participants are confident that their loved ones are being cared for by compassionate professionals in a safe, protective environment.

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Community Wellness Programs

At The Homemakers Health Services, we believe it’s important to help adults in our community keep their minds and bodies strong as they age. With that in mind, we have developed a number of health and wellness programs available to the community, including the following:

Strong Living - a supervised weight training program specifically designed for older adults, which uses dumbbells, ankle weights and body weights to challenge the muscles and increase physical conditioning.

Friend to Friend - a program that gives seniors and disabled adults in our community an opportunity to enrich their lives through socialization with a new friend.

Alzheimer’s Support and Educational - programs to assist caregivers with the challenging task of caring for an aging loved one with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia. Caregivers often feel isolated and don’t know where to turn for support or answers to their questions. The Homemakers hosts a monthly Alzheimer’s Support Group and an Alzheimer’s Educational Seminar to help caregivers.

Working Caregiver Solutions - a program which gives employers the tools to provide information about help and services for working caregivers.

Advance Directives Seminars - a quarterly informational program about the importance of Living Wills and Durable Powers of Attorney for Health Care.

Flu Clinics - annually The Homemakers hosts flu clinics as part of its community wellness programs.

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