Ed. Note: The following is a KHTS Feature story based on a recent radio interview with Home Care Services

Rick Ferrante of Home Care Services recently made an appearance on KHTS AM-1220’s “Doctor Proctor” to help explain the difference between non-medical and medical home care in Santa Clarita.

If the situation permits, it’s usually better for person’s mental and emotional health to receive care at home rather than a hospital, which in turn can produce better clinical results as well, according to Ferrante.

However, determining the combination of necessary medical and non-medical care to make that transition can be difficult.

“You’ve got a whole range of things when you have somebody in a hospital, you have a whole range of things when you have somebody at a nursing home or whatever the situation is,” Ferrante said. “But there is a whole litany of things and things to consider, understand and be educated about when you’re dealing with a loved one yourself or a loved one at home.”

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While the person or their loved ones can’t be expected to know 100 percent of what they need, Ferrante stressed the importance of knowing what options are available for both medical and non-medical home care.

Home Care Services provides non-medical services in the form of professional caregivers in Santa Clarita. These caregivers are not doctors or nurses, but are trained professionals in providing non-medical in-home care.

“What a lot of people need when they go home is they need doctor-directed and nurse-directed care,” Ferrante said. “Then there’s the rest of the time, when either a family or professional caregiver needs to be helping, if that’s what the need is.”

Caregivers can help individuals with a variety of activities of daily living, such as getting around the house, bathing, dressing, meal preparation, light housekeeping, transportation and more. While caregivers can monitor and help people with their medications, they do not administer it, according to Ferrante.

“You don’t put a doctor, you don’t put a nurse onto somebody that cares for somebody 24/7 or needs eight hours a day or something like that,” he said. “That’s where the caregivers come in. But they work together, along with your doctor, along with everybody else, to coordinate, integrate so that all the way through the process you have a continuity of care.”

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Home Care Services Santa Clarita provides in-home care for seniors in Santa Clarita, as well as others who need assistance in their home, and related products and services. In addition to professional caregivers in Santa Clarita, the knowledgeable staff at Home Care Services Santa Clarita also offer free resources, support and guidance to anyone who may need help caring for their own senior family member at their Caregiver Resource Center.

Home Care Services Santa Clarita

23340 Cinema Drive, Suite 5

Santa Clarita, CA 91355

661-412-0710