Most surgery recoveries need real help for two or three weeks and then almost none. That is a perfectly good reason to hire someone, and a perfectly good reason to stop.
Often for a short period. After a hip, knee, abdominal or cardiac procedure, most people cannot bathe, cook, shop or move around safely on their own for the first weeks, and lifting restrictions make ordinary tasks impossible. In Las Cruces, Personal Touch Home Care provides short-term non-medical help — bathing, meals, light housekeeping, errands, transport to follow-up appointments and overnight cover — and steps down as recovery progresses.
Almost everyone plans for the surgery and almost nobody plans for week one at home. The lifting restriction alone rules out laundry, groceries, the rubbish and anything on a high shelf. Bathing with a fresh incision is genuinely difficult and genuinely risky to attempt alone.
Then there is the follow-up appointment, which someone has to drive to, and the medication list, which has usually changed.
Two or three weeks of a few hours a day covers nearly all of it. It is one of the few situations where care has a natural and obvious end date, and we will hold you to that rather than letting it drift.
A few hours a day, usually two to three weeks:
A recovery arrangement that quietly continues after it is needed is a bad look for us and a waste of your money. When the caregiver reports that someone is managing on their own again, we will say so and help you step down.
Netty would rather be the agency you call again in five years than the one that overstayed by a month.
This page describes how non-medical in-home care supports daily life. It is not medical information and Personal Touch Home Care is not a clinical provider. Nothing here is advice about symptoms, treatment, medication or prognosis — those belong with the person's doctor. Our caregivers do not provide nursing, wound care, injections, therapy or clinical monitoring.
Before the surgery if you can. Arranging cover while someone is still in recovery on day two is stressful and limits what we can staff. A week's notice makes a large difference.
No. Wound care is clinical and requires a licensed clinician — that is home health. Our caregivers help with everything around it and will tell you if something looks like it needs a nurse.
Yes. Short-term is normal here and there is no expectation that it continues.
Then you extend, and that is a simple conversation. It is far easier to extend than to arrange from scratch mid-crisis.
Call and describe what is happening at home. We will tell you what we can do, what we cannot, and what it would take.
