HomeCare of Holland Home Can Meet Your Mental Health Needs

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Many people are not aware of the fact that
HomeCare of Holland Home has a program that is similar to traditional home care but is focused on the person with mental health needs. Our psychiatric nurses visit clients in their own homes, and our primary goal is to help keep them there.

Our services are separately funded under Medicare, Medicaid and other payers and can be provided in addition to the services coordinated for clients under the Medicaid Waiver, community mental health or their own mental health provider.

What makes HomeCare of Holland Home different from other home care agencies is that our Mental Health program has been collaborating with Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services since 1991 to provide the community with highly experienced psychiatric nurses. We want our clients to experience comfort and peace of mind, knowing that all their needs, including their mental health needs, are well managed. Their quality of life is always our highest priority.

Refer to Mental Health Home Care when a person is:

• Sleeping or eating poorly, or feeling a loss of energy and motivation.
• Fearful, fretful, needing lots of contact and reassurance from others.
• Anxious, has many complaints that can’t be solved, focuses on one or two things in particular.
• Talking about wanting to die, or to not to wake up in the morning, or makes actual self-harm statements.
• Suspicious of family, friends or others, and can’t be reassured, difficult to re-direct or assaultive to family, staff or peers.

What A Psychiatric Nurse Can Do:

• Assess the overall situation and provide consultation and recommendations and help with problem-solving.
• Assess behaviors and teach about non-medication interventions.
• Help to decide when medication is necessary to improve quality of life.
• Provide education regarding what medication side effects to look for.
• Educate about when to use an “as needed” medication.
• Provide consultation when a change in living environment is needed for safety. Help for staff with decision-making and problem-solving twenty-four hours a day to keep people as healthy as possible, both physically and mentally.

Our goal is to help your loved to live as independently as possible. To learn more about Mental Health HomeCare of Holland Home, please call one of our central intake nurses as 616-235-5113.

May 20th, 2009 | Posted in General, HomeCare | Share this on Facebook or Twitter