In Home Services
In Home ServicesIn Home Services assists individuals who have physical limitations that could qualify them for nursing home placement. With the care our Home Care Aides provide these folks can remain living in their homes independently.
Home Management Activities such as cleaning, laundry, shopping and errands, meal preparation, minor incidental services and chores.
Activities of Daily Living such as bathing, shampooing, hair care, shaving, making beds and changing linens, and medically related errands and chores.
Respite Care and Advanced Respite Care providing temporary companionship to relieve family caregivers.
Nurse Visits providing in-home nursing care, medication set-up, medication management and evaluation, safety assessments and diabetic nail care.
Services are available through the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Northwest Missouri Area Agency on Aging or on a private fee basis.
Contact Information:
n St. Joseph call 816-232-8080
In Andrew, Clinton, DeKalb and Platte call 1-800-794-0007
In Home Services saves Taxpayer dollars!
A 2002 statistical sampling of InterServ Medicaid clients showed that locally it costs an average of $7,610 per year to support an elderly client living at home. This cost includes congregate or home delivered meals, medical transportation, housing subsidies, home health services, monthly food order assistance and utility assistance. These costs are far below that of a nursing care facility.
Each year it costs Missouri Taxpayers $32,385 per person placed in a nursing
home.
In FY 2000 it is estimated that over $260 million in nursing facility costs were
avoided as a result of increased use of alternatives to facility-based long term
care. State statistics show that 72% of the nursing facility cost avoidance
total resulted from providing in home care. Missouri Care Options Report FY 2000
