Through the Ready-Set-Go-Home program from Visiting Angels of Durham, in-home supportive services may assist your loved one with duties after hospital release, promoting more effective rehabilitation at home. Our help lets your loved one concentrate on going home and recovering. Visiting Angels of Durham's transitional home care experts are committed to providing elders and disabled persons compassionate help so they may avoid hospital readmissions.

If your relative needs assistance getting home from the hospital, call 919-321-2159.

How Seniors from the Durham Area Could Be Risky for Hospital Readmission

Visiting Angels of Durham has given us an understanding of why hospital readmissions for seniors in Durham and around Person County happen and how our in-home supporting services could be helpful. Not following the doctor's discharge instructions causes most hospital readmissions. Many elements explain this issue.

Among the typical reasons elders find themselves readmitted to the hospital are:

• Weariness and tiredness resulting from hospital-disturbed sleep patterns
• Having trouble following a doctor's advised diet
• Battling a disease or injury at home
• Insufficient help for reduced mobility and higher fall risk
• Ignoring prescription drugs as advised
• Problems reaching follow-up visits or therapy appointments

Approximately 2.6 million seniors in the United States are projected to be readmitted to the hospital during the first month after release, which, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, adds to yearly costs of $26 million.

Nobody likes to see their loved one reduced to statistics; Visiting Angels of Durham's Ready-Set-Go Home program helps. Our in-home supporting services have assisted innumerable elders in Durham, Leasburg, Chapel Hill, Eno, and neighboring Person County, NC, for years.

How Our In-Home Supportive Services Assist Durham Area Senior Recovery at Home

Visiting Angels of Durham's Ready-Set-Go Home program may assist your loved one in staying out of the hospital following release free from readmission. Many Person County area seniors have been effectively helped in their rehabilitation by our three-pronged strategy to provide in-home supportive services for individuals returning from the hospital.

The Ready-Set-Go Home program operates like this:

1. Our care coordinators may visit your loved one while she is in the hospital and give them our free discharge preparation guide. This guide can track medications, follow-up appointments, symptoms to look for, and any food restrictions.
2. Once home, our caregivers may help your loved one with in-home support services like dressing, bathing, walking, fall prevention, food preparation, medication reminders, transportation to appointments, and other duties.
3. We can assist with food, drugs, medical equipment, and more delivery coordination from our Durham headquarters.

Visiting Angels of Durham uses a customized, one-on-one approach to our in-home assistance services for elders coming home from the hospital, unlike other local home care providers in Person County. From the days before release to follow-up visits after they have gone home, our staff will work with you to ensure the care plan for your loved one provides the care and help they need throughout their transition. Our care plans are adaptable and may be changed as necessary, enabling our caregivers to keep your loved one receiving the care required to be independent and age in place.

Schedule a FREE In-Home Consultation

To learn more about our in-home supporting services or to arrange a free consultation with our care coordinator, contact Visiting Angels of Durham immediately at 919-321-2159 or complete our form.