Benefit of Agency-Appointed Eldercare

A Los Angeles-based business leader with a longstanding entrepreneurial career spanning more than three decades, Jacob M. Graff is experienced in all facets of healthcare facility acquisition, development, and administration, as well as the provision of skilled and subacute healthcare. For more than three decades, Jacob M. Graff has served as the CEO of an elder care company.

At some point in their lives, seniors become more dependent in the areas of self-care, housekeeping, medication, and health, among others. For some seniors, moving to an assisted living facility or a nursing home is ideal, but some don't necessarily require these and can benefit from residential care. In-home healthcare is provided to seniors at their residential apartments (which sometimes belong to another family member). The goal of these services is to ensure that they are rendered the assistance as mentioned above as per need and promptly.

In-home elder care requires an in-home health worker whose purpose is to dispense appropriate medication to a senior, analyze and report the senior's health status to their care provider, and sometimes assist the senior with personal care tasks. In-home health workers are sometimes contracted independently, but many prefer agency-appointed health workers assigned to seniors by eldercare organizations.

Agency-appointed health workers have a duty obligation to fulfill the services in the contract and report the health status of patients to their employer on a pre-specified basis. Most of them are certified professionals who attend continuing education programs to meet industry standards, ascertaining professional care.

One major problem with hiring independent health workers is that they can be absent sometimes, and their absence may make seniors vulnerable to health risks. Agency-appointed health workers can be replaced with another worker by their employer when absent.