Your loved one can benefit from having a professional caregiver to help them when returning home from the hospital after surgery or a stroke. Thanks to our “Ready, Set, Go Home” transitional care program available from Visiting Angels® in Port Huron, elderly adults don't have to face the road to recovery alone. Our local home care agency is always focused on helping seniors age in place while enjoying a comfortable quality of life.

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Understanding the Importance of Transitional Care

All too often, we see that hospital stays can have a negative impact on seniors' well-being and lead to a cycle of repeat hospitalizations. Our goal with transitional care is to minimize our care recipients' risk of returning to the hospital and help them remain where they most want to be.

Transitional care isn't only designed to increase seniors' comfort as they are discharged from the hospital and get back into the rhythm of their normal life at home in Port Huron. Because almost one in five seniors on Medicare are rehospitalized within a month of being discharged, it's clear that elderly adults often require support at home to avoid serious complications and another stressful hospital stay.

Avoid Return Trips to the Hospital

The frequency of rehospitalizations among older individuals has several causes. In many instances, elderly adults find that they are not prepared to care for themselves at home after being in the hospital. They may feel more tired than usual, struggle with balance and mobility issues, or still have lingering symptoms or unexpected side-effects from medications.

These factors can combine to create an unsafe situation at home that ultimately leads the senior to experience a decline in their overall well-being and necessitates a return to the hospital.

We Help Seniors in the Port Huron Area

The good news is that we've built a care program around these specific risk factors and understand the unique situation your loved one may be facing as they approach their discharge date.

Allow us to help your loved one with their upcoming discharge through our transitional care program. Call Visiting Angels at (810) 966-2273 to reserve a free consultation in Port Huron or a nearby community today.

How Do You Help Us Prepare for Hospital Discharge?

As part of Transitional Care, we'll give your family our informative discharge guide to assist you with the preparation process. Then, we'll use your input to create a personalized plan of home care tailored to the needs and challenges your loved one is expected to have upon their return home.

Once your loved one is home, our trained caregiver can remind him or her to take medications, cook and/or assist in feeding them well-balanced meals, help with bathing, grooming and help with walking or transferring from bed to wheelchair. Our PCAs can also run errands, drive the individual to follow-up appointments, do light housekeeping and provide companionship throughout the healing process.