Personal Care Services

Personal care services are some of the most important home health tasks our caregivers are prepared to perform—and of course, will perform with the utmost confidentiality and sensitivity.

Personal hygiene assistance
One’s personal hygiene is not only important to their comfort, it is important to their health. The caregiving team at Sterling Care is specially trained in conducting routine personal hygiene including teeth and denture care and bathing assistance.

Routine transfer assistance
When someone is unable to get around on their own, our caregivers are able to help them move from the bed to a chair and vice versa. They are specially trained in proper body mechanics to avoid injury to their clients, as well as trained in using a Hoyer lift and a Gait belt.

Bed positioning
Placing a person into a correct posture position is essential to keep the body’s many systems functional. It helps to eliminate pressure on bony areas and joints, which can cause bedsores. Caregivers are specially trained to not only position bed-bound clients correctly, but to watch for pressure sores and other issues they can usually face.

Assist with light exercise
No matter the age, staying physically active is an important part of staying healthy. From taking walks, gardening, swimming, and dancing, our caregivers can incorporate these exercises into their daily visits.

Help with restroom use
Assistance with using the bathroom is a highly personal and sensitive need that affects many seniors and small or disabled children. It is a service that our caregivers provide with the utmost sensitivity and care. They are trained to assist with all toileting needs from minimal assistance to full assistance including incontinence care.

Transportation
Whether it’s a hospital pickup, visiting a friend, a shopping trip, or a regular doctor’s appointment, our caregivers can provide the transportation needed to complete these tasks, therefore allowing those in need to retain their independence.

Bathing and showering
Bathing is essential to an individual’s sense of well being. It refreshes the spirit and provides relaxation while cleansing the skin and stimulating circulation. Our caregivers can do whatever is needed to provide this necessary home health related service. Whether it is preparing the room for a bath, assisting with the transfer into the tub, staying nearby in case of an emergency, helping with a partial bath, or providing a full bed bath—our caregivers are trained and sensitive to this need.

Assistance with dressing
Those that have had debilitating illnesses, surgeries, or permanent movement problems may have problems doing an essential daily task—getting dressed. Our caregivers can help you or your loved one select appropriate clothing and get dressed while in or out of bed.

Hair care
Shampooing and styling one’s hair can make a person feel and look good. Our caregivers can help their clients shampoo their hair in a bath, shower, or sink—and also help dry and style it to their preference.

Sterling Care provices in home personal care services to  customers in the lower Fairfield County, Connecticut and includes the cities of Darien, Easton, Fairfield, Greenwich, New Canaan, Norwalk, Southport, Stamford, Weston, Westport and Wilton.