Home Health Aides

When a family begins exploring home care for a loved one, one of the first and most confusing questions is also one of the most important: what kind of care does this person actually need? The terms caretaker, home health aide, caregiver, and companion get used interchangeably in everyday conversation but they refer to meaningfully different roles with different training requirements, different scopes of work, and different implications for the health and safety of the person