Special Touch Home Care

Customized Service Programs

Special Touch knows that everyone is different, so each of our patients receives care based upon their individual needs. We are licensed to provide a variety of services that include aspects of companionship, homemaking, and personal care, and have tailored our services to help with:

Post-hospitalization assistance
Parents caring for a disabled child
People undergoing chemotherapy or other medical treatments
Children with medical conditions
Cancer patients
Expecting mothers
Injured athletes
Alzheimer's patients
Adults injured on the job
And many more

The following list further details some of the ways in which Special Touch can help our patients:

Companionship

Conversation and company
Playing games/cards
Answering the telephone
Maintaining a clean and healthy environment
Bedtime assistance
Going for walks
Help with reading
Assistance with selecting apparel
Accompaniment to doctor appointments

Treatments/Special Instructions

Reminding the patient to take medication
Reinforcing dressings/bandages
Assistance with range-of-motion exercises
Assistance with emptying catheter bags/ostomy apparatuses
Checking of temperature, pulse, and respiration
Assistance with ambulation/transfer
Monitoring weight
Monitoring changes in patients condition

Nutrition

Meal preparation
Grocery shopping
Feeding
Monitoring of diet
Checking of food/beverage expiration

Household Care

Light housekeeping
Kitchen maintenance
Furniture dusting
Bathroom maintenance
Organizing closets and cupboards
Emptying the garbage
Making the bed
Changing linens
Personal laundry

Personal Care

Bathing assistance
Shampoo
Oral hygiene assistance
Skin Care
Assistance with toileting
Hospital pick-up
Dressing/Undressing assistance
Changing position
Transferring using a Hoyer Lift
Assistance with devices such as canes, walkers, wheelchairs, prosthetics, etc