When someone can no longer get out of bed, the whole job becomes repositioning, hygiene and skin. Get those right and a person stays comfortable at home. Get them wrong and you are in hospital within weeks.
Frequently yes, with enough hours. The core of it is regular repositioning to protect the skin, full bed baths, incontinence care and barrier skin protection, meals and hydration brought to the bed, and someone present overnight. In Las Cruces, Personal Touch Home Care provides this as non-medical care, usually as extended or continuous shifts. Wound care and any clinical treatment is home health, not us.
Someone who cannot shift their own weight develops pressure damage remarkably quickly, and once skin breaks down it becomes a wound, and a wound becomes a clinician's problem and frequently a hospital admission.
Regular repositioning, keeping skin clean and dry, and barrier cream where it is needed is unglamorous work that prevents nearly all of that. It is also the reason bed-bound care usually needs longer shifts rather than short visits — repositioning on a schedule does not work if nobody is there.
A caregiver who is present daily also sees the earliest sign, the bit of redness that has not gone away, and tells you while it is still nothing.
Usually extended or continuous shifts:
Repositioning through the night is what breaks families. Someone gets up every few hours, every night, indefinitely, and there is no end date that anyone can see.
Overnight cover is not a luxury in this situation. It is the difference between a family who can sustain caring for someone at home and a family who cannot.
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.
No. An existing wound needs a clinician — that is home health. Our caregivers help prevent them through repositioning and skin care, and report early signs, but they do not treat.
Tell us on the first call how much the person can assist with a move. If it genuinely needs two people or a mechanical lift, we will say so rather than risk an injury to either of them.
Not always, but partial cover leaves gaps in the repositioning schedule, and those gaps are where skin damage happens. We will be honest about what a given number of hours can and cannot protect against.
Yes, and this is a common arrangement. Hospice handles the clinical side; we provide the presence, the personal care and the hours in between.
Call and describe what is happening at home. We will tell you what we can do, what we cannot, and what it would take.
