At Guardian Angels Personal Care, we provide quality home health care and case management services.

Case Management Services
In addition to providing home health care services, Guardian Angels can help:
  • Make referrals to local resources and services
  • Apply for and maintain benefits and services
  • Create a budget, pay bills, balance bank statements
  • Select insurance, including Medicare Drug Plans
  • Submit insurance claims
  • Plan long-term care
  • Provide advocacy and support
  • Provide other services, as requested

Home Health Care Services
Level One: Companion/Homemaker
Caregiver ensures the client is safe yet provides no direct care. Duties may include:
  • Engaging client in friendly and respectful conversation and/or activities.
  • Performing light housekeeping tasks, including cleaning (pick up spills, dishes, vacuuming and sweeping small areas), changing linens, and doing laundry.
  • Helping locate and bring to client items in room when needed (including when getting in and/or out of bed).
  • Assisting client with using telephone, opening mail or organization.
  • Preparing and serving meals.
  • Encouraging client to eat and/or drink more fluids.
  • Monitoring client while he/she feeds themselves.
  • Reminding client to use cane, walker, crutches or wheelchair, as appropriate.
  • Reminding client to bathe/shower.
  • Assisting with grooming and personal hygiene, including but not limited to shaving, oral hygiene, skin care, and nail care (for non-diabetics).
  • Assisting with dressing or undressing.
  • Reminding client to take medications (caregiver may not touch medications).
  • Running errands for client (without client accompanying, subject to mileage if using caregiver's vehicle).
  • Daily maintenance of plants and/or animals, if applicable.
  • Redirecting client, as needed.
  • Making notes of visit in caregiver log.
  • If client is in a facility, contacting staff when client needs care and/or attention.
  • Providing other tasks, as requested and approved by supervisor.

Level Two: Home Health Aid and/or Personal Care Attendant
Caregiver assists with life activities and direct personal care, pursuant to doctor's order, when applicable(must be reviewed by the doctor at least annually), written instructions and/or an established plan of care. In addition to duties described in Level One, caregiver duties may include:
  • Assisting with bathing/showering (in bathroom or bed).
  • Assisting client with toileting and/or changing briefs.
  • Transferring client (caregiver will only attempt to transfer client alone if client can assist by supporting some weight).
  • Assisting client with ambulation, using gait belt, cane, walker, crutches or wheelchair, as appropriate.
  • Accompanying client to appointments or on errands (subject to mileage if using caregiver's vehicle).
  • Assisting client with eating meals and drinking fluids to avoid aspiration.
  • Assisting client with exercises, as directed.
  • Taking and recording client's vital signs.
  • Notifying supervisor of change in client's condition or need for higher level of care.
  • Providing other tasks, as requested and approved by supervisor.