Home Care Aides                                                          Client testimonials

Our trained Home Care Aides are available to assist you with a variety of needs. They offer personal care services such as bathing, skin & hair care and foot care.

Home Care Aides can also assist with budgeting, teaching parenting skills to new parents, meal planning & preparation, grocery shopping, household chores such as vacuuming and dusting, laundry, making the beds and washing dishes.

Home Care Aide services are funded by Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance, grants, Elderbridge Agency on Aging and the Cerro Gordo County Board of Supervisors.

At a minimum, our Home Care Aides must complete a 60-hour training course or certified nursing assistant course before they are hired. Then, they must continue with annual ongoing training.

• Provide personal care such as bathing, skin and hair care.

• Assistance with budgeting, home management and light housekeeping.

• Assistance with grocery shopping and laundry.

• Assistance with meal planning and preparation.

• Assistance in DHS/court ordered child or adult protection services.

• Assistance with rehabilitation and exercise therapy.

• Facilitate an in-home parenting program through Family Connections which is delivered in the family home. Education of developmental stages, appropriate parent-child interaction, and methods of discipline are discussed with the parents. Time is also set aside for the child and parent to interact.
  

Page updated 10-24-04

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If there is anything we can do to help you, please contact the Family and Community Health staff. For home health care, you have a choice. Ask your physician to call Public Health today for your home care needs.