Our Services

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Halo Specialized Home Care offers a vast (and continuously expanding) array of services to help our clients live safely and more independently at home.  Here are some ways that we can help you and your family.  ​Please feel free to use this as a checklist to help us understand how we can serve you. 

• Provide clients with administrative assistance, such as writing letters, placing phone calls, filing receipts, and sending thank you and special occasion cards 

• Provide help with ambulation, bathing, toileting, grooming, dressing, and eating

• Assist with moving in and out of bed, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles

• Direct clients in simple exercise; walking, stretching, and prescribed physical therapies

• Provide active and passive range-of-motion exercises

• Create and implement geriatric fitness routines

• Accompany clients to doctors appointments
  
• Communicate issues and concerns with family and provide appropriate referrals

• Provide encouragement and direction for activities of daily living
  
• Develop and engage clients in daily routines 
  
• Maintain functional independence
  
• Assist with activities, while encouraging independence

• Create safe home environment

• Provide urinary catheter care and maintenance 

• Accompany clients for walks, errands, shopping, and visits with family and friends
  
• Engage with client in enjoyable activities

• Listen, encourage, and share

• Elderly home care assistance for active and home bound individuals 

• Provide emotional support to clients and families in both healing and hospice environments
  
• Provide encouragement and support for clients adapting to disability, illness, or lifestyle changes

• Perform a variety of duties as requested by client, such as obtaining household supplies, grocery shopping, and picking up prescriptions 

• Regularly review, evaluate, and update care plan with family

• Inform family of any significant changes affecting their loved one

• Provide family with emotional support, ongoing updates, and professional referrals

• Provide relief for family members by taking over the care of their loved one for a period of time 

• Assist with feeding pets, filling water dishes, and providing exercise

• Encourage pet participation in daily activities as appropriate

• Water interior and exterior plants, turn sprinklers on and off, light gardening with client as requested 

• Fill and organize newly prescribed medications
  
• Provide wound care and prescribed treatments following hospitalization
  
• Schedule and provide transportation to follow-up appointments 

• Organize discharge summaries and reinforce patient education

• Provide family with appropriate referrals to community resources 

• Ensure home safety by keeping pathways clear, removing tripping hazards, and staying organized

• Continuously assess home for safety and provide solutions as necessary

• Manage daily schedules, maintain calendar, coordinate appointments, therapies, activities, and sleep/rest 

• Assist with grocery shopping, picking up prescriptions, gift shopping, and other requests 

• Thoroughly inspect skin, applying lotions and moisture barrier creams to prevent break down
• Monitor skin for changes such as redness, irritation, or wounds
• Assist with turning, repositioning, and transferring
• Document and report changes in skin integrity

• Provide protective oversight
  
• Monitor healthy activity choices
  
• Prevent falls
  
• Ensure proper nutrition, hydration, and sleep/rest

• Transport and accompany clients to locations outside the home, such as doctor's appointments, errands, movies, and church