CONNECTED CARE

When you choose to hire a caregiver from KHOBCARE, you give your loved one the benefit of assistance with homemaking, meal preparation, and most importantly, the opportunity to meet a friendly, caring companion. Your local KHOBCARE provides clients with enriching, engaging, and empowering companion care that can help with feelings of loneliness that are an unfortunate reality for many seniors today. Your local KHOBCARE specializes in matching the very best caregiver with each client to create a meaningful relationship.

What Is Companionship Care?

Companionship care is a perfect service you can choose so your senior loved one can “age in place.” Oftentimes home care services can be about tasks such as help with light housekeeping, assistance with grooming and bathing, medication reminders, and more, but it can also include building a connection between the caregiver and the client that brings new meaning and joy to someone’s life.

At KHOBCARE, we’re proud to offer companionship care as one of the business’s most requested services. These companions help make daily life easier and safer for their clients. They also work diligently to help improve their client’s quality of life and partner with their loved one in doing their favorite hobbies and activities. This may include accompanying them to an appointment, social outing, or simply engaging in a friendly one-on-one conversation at home.

Types of Companionship Care We Offer:

Social Companion Care

Isolation from friends and family is an actual health threat many seniors face in their later years of life. Whether they have a disability that makes them less mobile or they are geographically separated from their loved ones, it poses concerns that can create more than just loneliness. A caregiver companion offers emotional and social support for their clients as they continue to live in the familiarity and comfort of their own homes.

Preventative Companion Care

Personal companion providers not only lend a listening ear but also help significantly with preventative care, such as by preparing healthy meals and encouraging mentally and physically stimulating activities that promote vitality. This could help minimize common problems the elderly face: malnutrition, weight fluctuations, decreased stamina, and reduced muscle mass. The goal is to keep your senior loved one as safe and as independent as possible as their companion is there to improve overall well-being.

Elder Companion Care

Commonly, elderly individuals don’t want to burden their adult children with their ongoing feelings of anxiety, depression, or loneliness. The emotional support a personal companion provider offers helps seniors open up to a more objective, neutral listener. Not only that, but the companion can help draw out meaningful conversations with their clients to figure out if anything is troubling them.

Why Companionship Care Is Important

Seniors who have strong social bonds have a lower risk of developing conditions like dementia, and other conditions. Socially engaged seniors are much more likely to be physically active and mobile with lower rates of disability, not to mention they tend to keep current with their doctor visits and eat a well-balanced diet, which can be beneficial to people of all ages and abilities.

The Benefits of Companion Care for Seniors & the Elderly

Even seniors who have the ability to age in place in familiar, comfortable surroundings can become lonely without social connections and assistance with daily chores and activities. Companion care bridges the gap for these individuals.

Emotional Support, Comfort, & Friendship

Ongoing socialization is important at any age and helps maintain good mental health. Unfortunately, many seniors are at risk of isolation can leaves them feeling empty and depressed after the loss of a spouse, friends, or changes in abilities to continue socializing. By spending time with a caregiver, your loved one will have someone to offer a meaningful social connection who can partake in the activities they enjoy, such as playing cards, preparing meals together, watching favorite sports games on TV, or going for a light stroll in the park. These activities bring whichor joy and mental stimulation that seniors need to stay healthy and vital.

Live with More Dignity

Companion care for elders empowers older adults to live with dignity and without the concern of burdening their loved ones as they age. They keep as independent as possible, enjoy the company of a great friend, and don’t have to uproot their lives to move into an unfamiliar environment – which can lead to feelings like anxiety, fear, or depression.

Practical Assistance with Everyday Activities

As we grow older, housework and activities of daily living become more difficult, such as meal prep, laundry, housekeeping, grocery shopping, remembering to take medication, and running errands. A companion caregiver helps with all these tasks and much more. A caregiver follows a plan created by the home care agency team that promotes physical safety and the well-being while also protecting emotional health and socialization.

Preventative Care

Keeping healthy becomes more of a difficult task with advanced age. A personal companion provider can help your senior avoid problems that may occur from lack of access to healthy meals, decreased mobility, missed medication, and loneliness. A caregiver can support healthy choices and remain active to prevent problems that might lead to a need for medical care.

A caregiver also provides companionship and prevents loved ones from the negative impacts of loneliness. Loneliness can present the same risk of heart disease that smoking does, and it increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke by 30%. You can help your loved ones stay healthier through KHOBCARE companion care services.

Respite Relief for Family Caregivers

Even the most loving, attentive family caregiver risks burnout. After all, you have a life of your own and will benefit from a focus on your health and emotional well-being. The simple answer could be to find a balance between staying in your loved one’s life daily and being able to focus on your own life by hiring a personal companion provider to keep your loved one company when you’re not available.

Peace of Mind for Family & All Loved Ones Involved

When you have an experienced professional caregiver in your home, you can rest assured your loved one will get the attention and companionship they need to ward off feelings of loneliness. This, in turn, will leave you the time to do other tasks without feeling guilty about leaving your elderly loved one home alone.

For a complimentary evaluation to customize an appropriate plan of care for your loved one, please contact us at (559) 780-6646.

How Much Does Companion Care Cost?

Companion care services vary in cost depending on the frequency of care provided. Fortunately, there are many ways to offset the cost of companion care so your loved one doesn’t have to do without the socialization they need to thrive.

Explore Our Financial Options & Programs

KHOBCARE will work with you to customize a care plan that fits your unique budget.

VA Aid & Attendance Benefits

This benefit provides monthly payments for qualified veterans and surviving family members. Learn more here.

Long-Term Care Insurance

Policyholders are offered reimbursement for services that assist the elderly with daily activities from grooming to eating to companionship.

Medicare

Medicare benefits generally do not help offset the cost of an in-home caregiver. Check your policy to learn whether your loved one is eligible for reimbursement.

Medicare Advantage

As part of the Supplemental Benefits portion, a limited number of plans may cover some in-home care services.

Medicaid

Medicaid, likewise, frequently helps offset the cost of companionship care. Connect with your local Area Agency on Aging to find out if you or your loved one is Medicaid eligible.

Emergency Back-Up Care

Adult care needs may be covered if your original plans fail to play out. This may allow for the arrangement of temporary care for your senior.

Other

Various grants and special funding may be available via local programs and projects, such as from the Area Agency on Aging, disease organizations, etc. Additionally, workers' compensation and auto insurance may apply and assist with covering services.

Signs Your Loved One Would Benefit from Companion Care

Your Loved One Has Limited Social Engagement

Do you worry about your loved one sitting on the couch alone, with one-hour blurring into the next? This is a common reality for many seniors, even though their loved ones want the best for them. A home caregiver called a companion caregiver can lend a friendly ear and provide the social engagement an elderly individual needs to help their mind stay stimulated and their mood is elevated.

The Eden Alternative Domains of Well-Being® recognize connectedness and autonomy as being two of its seven key principles to care. In-home care can help your loved ones stay connected and preserve their feeling of autonomy by remaining in the comfort of their home. KHOBCARE  has a partnership with The Eden Alternative® and shares in the belief that well-being is a human right and that through proper caregiving you can uphold someone’s right to a life full of purpose, connection, empowerment, and possibility regardless of age or change abilities.

Your Loved One Needs Help Maintaining a Routine

Maintaining a routine becomes an even more complicated task when mobility and cognition have declined with age or illness. By establishing a routine, your loved one will reap the benefits of a predictable and comfortable lifestyle that includes help with transportation, reminders to take medication, daily meal and nutrition prep, and much more.

Your Loved One Needs Help with Transportation (Appointments, Groceries)

Many seniors are no longer able to get around the way they used to in their younger years. With their need to see their doctor for checkups, go to church to see friends, or even make a routine trip to the grocery store, the task can be simply too much for a busy loved one who has to hold down a job and/or raise their own family. A home caregiver can provide much-needed support with these tasks that involve the need for help with transportation and driving to various locations.

Your Loved One Needs Help With Meal Preparation

Home caregivers can assist with meal preparation and at the same time connect about stories behind the favorite recipes of the client.

Your Loved One Needs Help With Hobbies or Recreational Activities

Everyone needs a friend or partner to do the things they love. Whether that means a game of cards or watching the birds at the local park, your loved one can enjoy quality time with a personal companion provider who will enthusiastically engage with them and encourage them to take part in activities they find meaningful, fun, and stimulating.

Your Loved One Needs Help with Important Reminders

Forgetting to take medication or missing a doctor’s visit can have negative consequences. With the assistance of an in-home caregiver, your loved one will keep on track with their medication and appointments to lower their risk for preventable health hazards. These reminders can make all the difference to loved ones who have other tasks of their own to keep in mind.

Your Loved One Needs Assistance With Pet Care

Furry friends offer wonderful companionship to a senior, but they are also a big responsibility. If your senior has a beloved dog they would like to walk, a caregiver can join them for added safety, or a cat whose litter box needs to be cleaned, you can trust that an in-home caregiver can keep up with these tasks. KHOBCARE companions can ensure that even the family pets get the attention and companionship they require to thrive if a senior has mobility problems or otherwise cannot attend to the pets’ care as diligently as they need.

Your Loved One Needs Help with Light Household Chores

Housework takes time, energy, and dedication. That’s when an in-home caregiver becomes an invaluable asset for your loved one as they provide help with common housekeeping tasks such as doing the laundry or cleaning up the kitchen after preparing a meal.

What's the Difference Between Companion Care Services and Personal Care?

Although many in-home caregivers provide both services, there are distinct differences between companion care services and personal care services. While personal care involves hands-on tasks like help with grooming and toileting, companion care focuses on providing your loved one with social interaction and help with other basic needs. Companion care is just as important as personal care because social interaction is crucial for the elderly. Loneliness is not just a burden, but it poses a serious health threat to older adults. Your loved one’s in-home caregiver can help an independent person by engaging them in fun activities, and other various household tasks such as light housekeeping chores.

Why Choose KHOBCARE for Senior & Elderly Companionship

KHOBCARE has a simple yet profound philosophy that the elderly must keep engaged, connected, and feel appreciated as they age in place. We bring expert caregivers to your home so your elderly loved one can seek to thrive in a familiar, comfortable environment without the risk of facing feelings of loneliness and isolation. Quality caregiving services and companionship care are delivered by compassionate in-home caregivers who help your loved one with a wide range of needs. All you have to do is contact your KHOBCARE location to begin the process – by doing so, you give your loved one the gift of companionship and socialization that too many seniors might miss out on.

Contact Our Team to Learn More About In-Home Companion Care for Your Loved One Today!