A skilled nursing home care is an environment for the permanent residential care of elderly or disabled people. It includes skilled nursing caregiving and supervision by health care professionals. Nursing homes can also be called skilled nursing care facilities, long-term care centers, elderly persons’ homes, adult daycare centers, assistive care centers, residential drug abuse treatment centers, home health care centers, custodial care facilities, or custodial care homes. Skilled nursing homes are generally meant for senior citizens. In addition, home care agencies offer caregiving services and home health care agencies to provide for the caretaker to meet the needs of the disabled.
If you have decided to avail of any agency’s home health care services, make sure that they are certified by Medicare and that they provide quality services. In addition, many of the agencies or nursing homes offer home health care programs under which the eligible senior citizen can stay at home for periodic periods as per their preference.