Personal Care
Our providers improve the quality of life.
Older adults often require extra help with their daily routine as they age. This can be due to physical or mental decline. While loved ones can sometimes step in to assist, this is not always feasible. Through our new VNA Personal Services, the VNA of Manchester and Southern New Hampshire offers non-medical personal and nursing care services to address these needs.
Registered Nurses consult with clients and their families to develop a personal care plan that meets everyone’s unique needs. When necessary, they communicate with home health care providers to ensure that all the client’s home health and personal care needs are met.
Personal care providers have extensive experience caring for seniors at home. They are genuinely caring individuals who can complete or assist with a variety of tasks. All personal care providers also provide at-home companionship, which has proven vital to the well-being of aging seniors.
Personal care providers improve the quality of life of the individuals they work for while also easing the burden many families feel when trying to balance caring for an aging loved one with the demands of work, childcare, and other responsibilities.
Our multidisciplinary personal care team includes a range of positions. We will match individuals with a care provider who best meets their needs.
Homemaker provides hands-off assistance by vacuuming, doing laundry and dishes, taking down and making the bed, cleaning the bathroom, preparing meals, and providing companionship, running errands.
Personal Care Service Provider (PCSP) provides hands-on assistance with bathing, dressing, assistance with toileting and ambulation, as well as medication reminders, meal preparation, and light homemaking, running errands.
Licensed Nursing Assistant (LNA) assists with range of motion exercises and ambulation with or without devices, provides medication reminders/observation, applies non-skilled wound dressings and non-prescription lotion/cream, as well as other personal care and homemaking services. They also can perform light homemaking and run errands.
Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) performs nursing functions delegated by the Registered Nurse (RN) and under the direction of the physician. This may include shifts of nursing or visits to draw labs, prefill medications, administer injections.
Registered Nurse (RN) performs nursing functions as ordered by the physician. This may include shifts of nursing or visits to draw labs, prefill medications, administer injections.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between personal care and nursing care services?
Personal care refers to individualized care needs that support one’s activities of daily living. Services could include bathing, dressing, meal prep, light housekeeping and companionship. Nursing care is offered by a trained medical professional, like a Registered Nurse or Licensed Nurse Assistant. It includes services like drawing blood for labs, providing injections, and remote monitoring. Nursing care services are ordered by the physician and are typically services that would not otherwise be covered by insurance, such as those listed.
Who pays for VNA Personal Services care?
Care is paid for by the individual or family of the individual who is receiving the services.
To learn more about the home support options available to you and your loved one; provided by the VNA of Manchester & Southern New Hampshire, please call 603-622-3781.