Personal Care That Fits Your Routine
Candid Amour Home Care Agency offers home health aide support for families in Forest Park
When daily tasks become harder to manage on your own in Forest Park, a home health aide gives you hands-on support with the kind of care that keeps you comfortable and clean without requiring a hospital stay. Candid Amour Home Care Agency sends aides who help with bathing, oral care, grooming, skin care, basic foot care, and linen changes. Your aide works under the supervision of a registered nurse when applicable, following a care plan built around your needs and preferences.
This is not full-time staffing. It is part-time or intermittent support designed to help you stay at home with dignity and consistency. Your aide arrives on a schedule that matches your care plan, whether that means a few hours several times a week or daily visits depending on what you need. The focus is on hygiene, comfort, and reducing the physical strain that comes with managing personal care alone or relying entirely on family.
If you or someone you care for in Forest Park needs reliable help with bathing, grooming, or daily personal tasks, contact us to talk through your situation and start building a care plan.
How Your Aide Supports You Each Visit
Your aide arrives with the supplies needed to complete the tasks listed in your care plan. In Forest Park, that typically means helping you bathe safely, assisting with dressing, brushing teeth, combing hair, trimming nails, and changing bed linens. Your aide follows your routine as closely as possible so the support feels predictable rather than intrusive.
After care begins, you will notice less worry about falling in the shower, fewer struggles with buttons or zippers, and cleaner skin that is less prone to irritation. Your family will spend less time managing tasks that require physical strength or patience and more time just being with you. Your aide tracks any changes in your condition and reports concerns to the supervising nurse so small issues get addressed early.
This service does not include medical tasks such as medication administration or wound care. It is personal care only, focused on hygiene and comfort. Your care plan will specify which tasks your aide provides and how often visits occur. If your needs change, the plan can be updated to reflect what you actually require rather than what was assumed at the start.
People often ask how aide visits are scheduled, what tasks are included, and how care is supervised when a nurse is not in the home. These are the questions we hear most before services begin.
What families want to know before starting
Candid Amour Home Care Agency works with seniors and families in Forest Park who want consistent, hands-on help with daily personal care. If you are ready to talk through your needs or set up a care plan, reach out and we will walk you through what to expect from intake to first visit.
Our Services
Our services here at Candid Amour Home Care Agency LLC consist of a variety of options that are geared towards making each client feel as much comfort as possible. Here are some of the services and treatments we offer here at Candid Amour Home Care Agency LLC.
Skilled Nursing Care
Skilled nursing services are provided by specially trained registered nurses and licensed practical nurses that begin all cases with an assessment to obtain information to establish a plan of care. The services are prescribed by a doctor on an intermittent basis and include such things as dressing changes, teaching and administration of medications, intravenous therapy, catheter care, diabetic care, wound care, and teaching the family how to care for the patient in the home.
Home Health Aide Services
Home health aides work under the supervision of a registered nurse or therapist. Services primarily consist of assistance with personal care. A home health aide may give a bath, give oral care, foot care, shampoo, shave, skin care, and change linens. Under Medicare, a home health aide may stay in the home part-time or intermittently to provide personal care only.
Wound Care
Wound care refers to specific types of treatment for pressure sores, skin ulcers and other wounds that break the skin. Wound care education will be provided to each patient/caregiver. All education on wound care will include, but not be limited to:
- Goals for wound care
- Self-wound care
- Dressings to be utilized in wound care
- Symptoms to report to your nurse or physician
- Risk factors for pressure ulcers and types of wounds
- Proper skin care and how to prevent injury
- Nutrition and wounds
- Medications for wound healing
- Fluid intake
- Medication safety
- Pain management
Social Services
The social services staff provides social casework services to patients as needed to augment other services of the agency. Services include the evaluation of social functioning, particularly as it relates to medical problems, and initiation and follow-up of referrals to other community resources as applicable.
Infusion Therapy
Infusion Therapy services can include pain management, chemotherapy, hydration therapy, and antibiotic therapy. Infusion therapy is provided to patients for treating a wide assortment of often chronic and sometimes rare diseases for which “specialty” infusion medications are effective.
PCA
Personal Care services includes the provision of services such as assist with personal care, light housekeeping, meal preparation.
Homemaker
Homemaker services include assistance with instrumental activities of daily living and may include housekeeping tasks, grocery shopping and other errands, and meal preparation.
Companion Services
Companion services include transportation, meal preparation, shopping, light housekeeping, companionship and household management.