Non-Medical Homecare Workers

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Bonjour Home Care
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Non-Medical Homecare Workers
This type of homecare can be referred to as
custodial care. It a type of care that is
non-medical in nature and involves assisting
their clients with daily living tasks. Some of
these tasks can include helping them use the
bathroom, take a bath, or shower, getting in and
out of bed, dressing, and more. When you are a
non-medical homecare worker, you may also have to
help with the preparations of their meals and may
include feeding them. Although it is personal in
nature, it does not require you to be a trained
health care professional or nurse.
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Non-Medical Homecare Workers
You do not need knowledge of health or medical
care or extensive training but you will need to
have organizational skills, patience, physical
strength, stamina, and compassion. All of these
traits go into being a successful non-medical
homecare worker. The client you work for at one
time was a strong individual who was able to take
care of themselves but now has to depend on
someone else to help them with their basic
personal needs. This is why you need compassion
to understand how they feel having to depend on
someone else to help them with basic grooming,
turning them in bed so they do not get bedsores,
making sure that they are clean and fed, and more.
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Non-Medical Homecare Workers
Many times your clients will have trouble moving
about on their own so they may need help walking
to the bathroom, getting up from their chair, or
out of bed. You may also be required to help
them perform exercises to help them maintain or
improve their function and strength, improve
their balance, or increase their range of motion
after a stroke or a fall. If these exercises do
not require the help of a physical or
rehabilitation specialist you can help with them.
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Non-Medical Homecare Workers
This type of homecare may also involve just
sitting and listening to your client talk, read a
book to them, taking them out to their doctors
appointment, or for a short drive. Some clients
enjoy their care worker to have a meal or watch a
television program with them. This can all be
part of the job. When helping them with their
bathing you are there to help ensure that they do
not fall, that they have their hair washed if
they cannot do it themselves or even do the
actual bathing. If they cannot do it you may
have to comb their hair or brush their teeth.
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Non-Medical Homecare Workers
Being a non-medical homecare worker can be a very
rewarding job but it can also be hard at
times. This article is penned by Lora Davis for
Bonjour Home Care. Bonjour Home Care is a
dedicated team of professionals that provide the
best recovery homecare services to families and
clients. In case you are a family in need of non
medical homecare then you may want to contact
them. They are located in New Jersey and can be
reached by call their toll free number
1.800.224.8043.
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