Comfort
of Home Healthcare is happy to announce that it’s looking for some caring
individuals to make a huge difference in the life of another person. We
normally provide more “traditional” in-home care services to seniors and people
with disabilities.
Comfort
of Home Healthcare was founded from a passion and drive to make a difference in
people’s life’s, fueled by our own personal experiences. Providing the best care possible to people who
need help to remain independent is our sole goal and focus each and every day.
With this commitment in mind, we cannot be more excited to begin a new journey
in providing a non-traditional model of care for people with developmental disabilities
in shared life, or live in companion.
The
live in companion model, utilizes a shared home/ shared life approach to
provide supports to people with developmental disabilities. This means that a
person with a disability lives with and shares a home with a paid caregiver.
Shared
Living is based on the importance of enduring and permanent relationships as the
foundation for learning life skills, developing self-esteem and learning to
exist in interdependence with others.
The essential future of the Shared Living
experience provides an opportunity for each individual with a developmental
disability to grow and develop to his or her greatest potential and to
participate in everyday community life.
Shared living also provides
individualized attention based on the needs of the individual with developmental
disabilities. Shared living gives individuals opportunities to be completely immersed
in their community and take an active role in their life.
Some
of the many reasons Comfort of Home Healthcare is excited to be starting this
type of service because the Shared Living model are: (taken from Division of Developmental
Disabilities)
·
Inclusion
in the community has been and continues to be a major focus of supports for
people with disabilities. The Shared Living model has proven to be as good means
for providing true inclusion in a person’s community, if the individual is
matched and well supported by the Shared Living Provider.
·
Shared
Living can provide both a stable support system and a higher quality of life for
the person receiving services. The issue of staff people “revolving” in and
out of the person’s life is minimized.
·
Shared
Living can also provide a stable, flexible, higher quality of life for the
individual.
·
This
model provides the training and services quality review needed to assure the
person served and the system of the highest possible quality and
cost-effectiveness of the services.
Companions (paid caregiver) typically work Monday-Friday
and begin each day when the consumer awakes. They assist the consumer with
their morning routines, daily care, medications, meal preparation, etc.
Most
consumers attend a day program, have a job or attend school and the companion
is off work during these times. If the consumer is not gone during the day,
then the companion is with the individual to assist them throughout the day. The
companion also assists the consumer in the afternoon and evening time with their
evening/night routines and then typically goes to bed after consumer has done
so
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Companions
are salaried positions and are tied to weekdays. Companions are live in, this
means that their rent and utilities are paid for, in addition to their salary.
Each companion has the option of taking weekends
off. During this time Comfort of Home Healthcare provides relief staff. ____________________________________________________________
Comfort
of Home Healthcare, right now is actively seeking Companions and Relief staff for
a woman with a developmental disability. As far as we know, we will be the first one in our area under this model, it will be exiting to start with us and be the first.
Please
help us spread the word to someone who you think this would be perfect for. It
is absolutely paramount that we find the right person for this model and will
keep interviewing until we find it.
If
you have any questions about this, please do not hesitate to contact us.
816-671-0298, Ask for Jason.
