North Andover / Beverly, MA In-Home Care

Homewatch CareGivers has been a premier provider of home care for people of all ages for over 25 years.  With our Advanced Continuum of Care, we are able to help our clients stay comfortable and safe...no matter where they live. Often, adult children live far from their aging parents in Essex County, and don’t get to engage as often on their parents home care as they’d like. Sometimes it is a shock to go home and realize that your parents aren’t doing as well as they claimed over the phone. In fact, you may see an immediate need for your parents to start receiving care givers assistance. These conversations can be emotional and difficult. As the home care experts, Homewatch CareGivers of North Andover and Beverly offers a Guide to In-Home Senior Safety to help adult children breach the topic of independent living and senior care needs with their elderly parents.In-Home Senior Safety is important whether an elderly individual’s care givers are family members or hired employees from a home care company serving Essex County. 

According to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, about 11 million Americans over 65, fall each year. Those falls are resulting in almost 12,000 deaths, many can be prevented with proper In Home Safety practices or trained senior care professionals.

Medication management is another potential danger zone senior care givers should be concerned with. The past 20 years witnessed an incredible increase in prescription drug therapy, to the point where people over 65 now average nearly 10 medications taken one or more times daily. Medication mismanagement can cause unnecessary health problems in the elderly, who are often simply unable to keep track of which pill to take, and when. Whether you are hiring a home care company in the North Andover or Beverly areas, or your are provide senior care giving services yourself, you need to develop a strong plan to insure medications are properly managed.