What is home care? “Home care” is a simple phrase that encompasses a wide range of health and social services. These services are delivered at home to recovering, disabled, chronically or terminally ill persons in need of medical, nursing, social, or therapeutic treatment or assistance, or both, with the essential activities of daily living.
Generally, home care is appropriate whenever a person prefers to stay at home but needs ongoing care that cannot easily or effectively be provided solely by family and friends. More and more older people, electing to live independent, non-institutionalized lives, are receiving home care services as their physical capabilities diminish. Younger adults who are disabled or recuperating from acute illness are choosing home care whenever possible. Chronically ill infants and children are receiving sophisticated medical treatment in their loving and secure home environments. Adults and children diagnosed with terminal illness also are being cared for at home, receiving compassion and maintaining dignity at the end of life. As hospital stays decrease, increasing numbers of patients need highly skilled services when they return home. Other patients are able to stay at home to begin with, receiving safe and effective care in the comfort of their own homes.
WHO Member Care Providers
Federal Home Care Compare Site
Senior citizen services in Wisconsin
Consumer complaint hotline, Medicare and Medicaid: 1-800-362-2320
Administration on Aging Elder Page
Click on the links below to reach these WHO members:
ADORAY Home Care St. Croix County
Fort HealthCare Home Health and School Nurse Program (Fort Atkinson)
Homeward Bound: Crawford, Grant, Iowa, Richland & Sauk counties
Watertown Hosptial Home Health: Jefferson and Dodge counties
Clarity Care: Brown, Calumet, Clark, Fond du Lac, Jefferson, Lincoln, Manitowoc, Marinette, Oconto, Oneida, Outagamie, Shawno, Sheboygan, Vilas, Washington, Waukesha, Waupaca, Winnebago, Wood
Recover Health (formerly REM Inc).: Adams, Brown, Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Iowa, Juneau, Marquette, Monroe, Sauk, Outagamie, Portage, Shawano, Vernon, Winnebago, Waupaca & Waushara counties
