Home Care Vs. Assisted Living

Choosing elderly care for your loved one can not be approached as a one-size-fits-all solution. Simply put, choosing the right care is dependent on what your elderly loved one’s needs. Needs to consider include:

• Level of care needed
• Cost of care
• Independence or lack of
• Family-involvement in care
• Safety
• And more

What is Home Care?

Home care is a type of care that provides your elderly loved one with a nurse or caregiver in their home. This type of care is best for those loved ones who are more independent and wish to and are able to stay in their home. This type of care tends to be more customizable and provide services such as companionship, meal preparation, medication reminders, light housekeeping tasks, and personal care, as well as more intensive care like wound care, ventilator care, pain management, and more. Home care allows your loved one to receive the care they need without having to relocate.

What is Assisted Living?

Assisted living can be a great option when in-home care is insufficient, family isn’t as involved, and it sometimes can be more affordable, depending on if your loved one needs 24/7 care. Senior living can provide personal care while allowing your loved one to still enjoy some independence. Also, it can allow your senior to enjoy ample social opportunities. Though it may still be saddening for seniors to leave their homes, they can enjoy amenities that they wouldn’t have access to at home as well as a nurse call service, daily meals and snacks, laundry, and housekeeping services.

How to Choose the Best Care For Your Loved One

If this is your first time looking into elderly care for your loved one, you may be surprised to find there are a lot of options in Honolulu. There is in-home care, assisted living, nursing homes, and more. The options available may be overwhelming; the best place to start when deciding on care for your loved one is to consider their needs as well as other important aspects.

What Do I Need to Consider?

There is not a one-size-fits-all solution to care for your loved one. Each senior is different and requires a different level of care. Also, there are other aspects to consider such as your budget, your family’s involvement in care, and if your loved one stays in their home, who will take care of the home. Some families choose to keep their loved one in their own home as they would suffer from homesickness. Others choose to have them relocated to assisted living for more social interaction.

Wilson Care Group Home Care

Wilson Care Group offers two options for home care. We offer our Nurse Aid Care Services and Nursing Home Care. We offer our clients options to not only better accommodate their elderly loved one’s needs but also their family’s budget as well.

Nurse Aide Home Care

Nurse Aide Home Care offers personali in-home care that allows your loved one to stay in their home, but also enjoy the benefits of assisted care. The care your loved one will receive includes:

• Companionship
• Meal preparation
• Medication reminders
• Light housekeeping tasks
• Personal care

When we provide care to your loved one, we aren’t just home health care workers, but we consider you our family. Learn more about our Nurse Aide Home Care.

Nursing Home Care

For those older family members that need more care, we offer our Nurse Home Care. This care includes what you will enjoy with Nurse Aide Home Care, but offers skilled nursing care:

• Wound care
• Medication administration
• Ventilator care
• Pain management
• Oxygen therapy
• Catheter insertion
• Patient teaching
• Injections
• G-tube feeding
• IV therapy

With nursing home care, your loved one can stay in the comfort of their own home while they have short- or long-term care. Learn more about our Nursing Home Care.

Senior Living

When in-home care is no longer the best option, Willson Senior Living can be a comfortable and beautiful place for your older loved ones to live. There we offer around the clock care as well as other amenities such as:

• State-of-the-art facility
• Common areas
• Private bedrooms and bathrooms
• Tempur-Pedic bed or hospital bed
• Flat screen TV with basic cable
• Wifi
• Landline phone and discreet number
• AC
• And more

Our senior living is perfect for individuals who don’t need skilled nursing care on a regular basis, but would benefit from around the clock assistance. Learn more and take a tour of our facilities.