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Eight out of ten older adults prefer to stay in their homes amidst familiar surroundings and friends rather than move to alternative housing NSI/ELDERFORCE, INC. (ELDERFORCE) is the answer.
You have enjoyed a lifetime of freedom and leisure activities. We want to help you maintain this independent lifestyle as long as possible.
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Discover how Elderforce can assist you to get more out of life |
The caring employees of Elderforce provide the specific personal services necessary to make your daily living more carefree, enjoyable, and rewarding. Elderforce becomes your extended family, providing a coordinated, comprehensive and personalized program of services.
We understand that the individual needs of the elderly greatly vary. Our staff can help to take the complexity out of ever increasing decisions placed on older adults. Therefore, we offer a wide variety of in-home care and support services designed to address each one of our clients’ unique needs. Our dedicated professionals work with individuals and their families in a cooperative effort to establish the best plan of care to meet individual needs, delivered wherever care is needed
- Personal Residence
- Independent Living Community
- Assisted Living Community
- Hospital (pre and post operative)
- Rehabilitation Center, Acute Care
- Hospice Care
- Long Term Care Facility (Nursing Home)
Please contact us today to discuss what we can do for you, your loved one or friend.
We take great pride in making the recruitment and hiring of sincere, honest, nurturing people our highest priority. Our caregivers are our employees, not subcontractors. They have been thoroughly screened (police and DMV background checks, drug tests and work references), formally trained, bonded and insured.
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Homemaking Services |
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- Supervision of Personal Hygiene
For safety reasons, our caregiver will supervise and provide guidance to the client’s grooming routine to ensure that proper hygiene is being completed.
- Meal Preparation
Our staff are happy to prepare a hot or cold, delicious, nutritious meal.
- Light Housekeeping
Vacuuming, dusting, sweeping and mopping floors, cleaning bathrooms sinks, showers, tubs and toilet, cleaning kitchens, sinks, countertops, taking out the trash, straightening up all rooms, assist with organizing closets and drawers. All cleaning supplies must be provided by the client.
- Laundry
Our caregivers will separate the whites and darks, change bed linens, as often as requested by client or family members. Please be sure to provide laundry soap and coins if needed.
- Errands and Grocery Shopping
Caregivers will shop with or without the client accompanying them. We encourage our clients to go to stores in a close proximity to home due to the high cost of gas. We also would like to try to get all the errands completed in the same day if possible so their time can be used efficiently.
- Respite or relief for family
We can provide assistance so you can run errands, go shopping or the movies, etc. and know that your loved one is home safe with supervision.
- Transportation
Trips to doctor appointments, day surgery, hair dressers, mall walking (for exercise), etc.
- Medication Reminders
Although our caregivers cannot administer medications they can assist the individual with opening a prepoured medication container. Making certain that they are taking their medications at the time they are due.
- Activities and Companionship
Whether it is cards, board games, puzzles, having a meal together or a walk outside, our caregivers can help our clients stay active in mind, body and spirit.
- Hospital or Nursing Home Supervision
Our caregivers can provide comfort and companionship to an individual during their stay in the hospital or facility. It is a nice way to have moral support when a family member cannot be there.
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Personal Care Services |
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- Bathing
Our certified, trained staff can assist the client into the shower, washing areas that cannot be reached or even a sponge bath on days we just can’t get out of bed.
- Transferring and Positioning
Our staff assist in moving a client from their bed into a wheelchair or bedside chair into a correct posture position. It is important to ensure proper positioning in order to eliminate pressure areas on the skin, reducing atrophy and stiffening of muscles, encourages proper breathing, digestion, and elimination.
- Incontinence Care
Our caregivers understand the sensitivity of this situation and approaches to care for individuals who need assistance and maintaining proper hygiene in prevention of skin breakdown.
- Toileting
Assisting the client into the bathroom and guiding them onto and off the toilet or commode.
- Dressing
Our caregivers can assist the client with putting on Teds stockings, undergarments, clothing and footwear.
- Feeding and Meal Preparation
Our caregivers can prepare a meal that is tailored to the need of the individual (pureed or specialized diet) and assist with oral feeding.
- Appetite and Fluid Supervision
Our caregivers will monitor and encourage food and liquid consumption per the request of the family or doctor. All intakes will be documented.
- Range of Motion
Assist the client in performing gentle exercises to maintain joint flexibility.
- Ambulation
Assist the client in safe transfers and ambulation with or without assistive devices such as a walker or cane.
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Private Duty Nursing (hourly based) |
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- Registered Nurse
Provides total medical care to an individual in home or hospital where a more intensive hands-on care is needed ie. tube feeding, medication administration, postoperative care, oxygen and tracheotomy care, etc.
- Licensed Practical Nurse
Provides total medical care to an individual in home or hospital where a more intensive hands-on care is needed ie. tube feeding, medication administration, postoperative care, oxygen and tracheotomy care, etc.
- Certified Nurse Aide
Provides assistive services such as bathing, dressing, toileting, ambulation, feeding, meal preparation, transfers, range of motion exercises.
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Emergency Response Systems |
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NSI/Elderforce, Inc. is an area provider for Lifeline, an emergency response system. Our qualified staff can install the lifeline unit within 24 - 48 hours of the request.
What is Lifeline? Lifeline is an easy-to-use personal response service that ensures that older adults living at home get quick assistance whenever it is needed – 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
When you need help, you just press the waterproof Personal Help Button you wear as a pendant or wristband. Within seconds, a certified Lifeline monitor responds, assesses the situation and summons appropriate help, whether it is a neighbor, relative or ambulance.
Who responds when I press my button? A caring and extensively-trained Lifeline professional called a monitor, who has instant access to your pertinent health history and personal profile on his or her computer screen.
Why do I need Lifeline? Life is unpredictable. An unexpected fall or medical emergency could threaten your future health if help is delayed. With lifeline, help is assured. Lifeline is NOT just for medical emergencies. The service also allows you to:
- Answer the telephone without having to rush to grab a handset and risk falling.
- Maintain your peace of mind knowing that help is just a press-of-a-button away.
- Enjoy a stronger sense of well-being.
Lifeline enables you to live independently and confidently in your own home.
All equipment is rented on a month to month basis. Please click here to request more information.
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| “I want to tell you how well your Nursing Services, Inc. Lifeline program is progressing with Linda Tucker at the helm. Linda has been wonderful to work with and has brought the Lifeline service to over 27 elderly adults in your community.” - K.A. Lifeline |
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