Are you known what domiciliary care is

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Are You Known What Domiciliary Care Is? Understand Through F.A.Q. This imbalance between our hectic life and sloth life of the senior members of our family makes them suffer. They long for companionship, but our busy life prevents us from fulfilling their requirements.

Palliative care, live-in care service and emergency care are options that are gaining immense impetus in the recent times. Actually, time is a crucial factor today that gives us least scope of providing constant company to our family members. Good news is that senior citizens can now feel more secured in good care company helping hands. Are you thinking of opting for domiciliary care for a loving senior member of your family? If lack of adequate knowledge makes you skeptical, here is a F.A.Q. for you. Check out! Q. How does a domiciliary service run? Domiciliary care is a specialized form of service. Therefore, it works in collaboration with other service providers like NGO’s, health care groups, etc. for rendering different customized care. Q. Who can avail domiciliary care service? In majority of the cases, it is thought that only the old and crippled can avail domiciliary care. Nevertheless, the practical picture is different. This care is provided to patients irrespective of their age. Just like a senior citizen, a youth, an infant, a kid and an adult can avail the option of domiciliary service.


Q. Who sponsors domiciliary care for patients? Domiciliary care is mostly funded by the patient himself or his family members. However, some patients avail the advantage of state funded domiciliary care facility. In this system, either state accredited commissioning body pays the bills for a patient’s domiciliary care or the state itself that directly pays the bills. Q. Is there any fixed service under the broad heading of ‘Domiciliary Care’? A. Domiciliary care is basically synonymous to home care. This implies that the professionals who have been appointed for the purpose will visit the patient’s home for taking care of his/her requirements. This service can be of various types.

For instance, some home care professionals might give half an hour’s visit to a patient’s home to check if he/she has taken the necessary medicines. Others may stay overnight and provide constant company. Q. Are the domiciliary service providers trained for a specific task? A. No, it is not so. Since the service is aimed at meeting various medical needs of a patient, there is a specialized professional for a patient of a particular age group and requirement. Therefore, while a professional may be trained to provide support to a child with learning disabilities, another professional might be responsible for diagnosing the mental health of a senior patient. However, while some domiciliary service providers provide medical support some of them provide nonmedical support as well.


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