What is Elder Care?
Elder care is a term that covers any service provided to an elder, ranging through the continuum of care from an adult making a telephone reassurance call to the kind of skilled nursing provided by hospitals. Elder care therefore includes both the care services provided by the senior’s family or a friend and those tasks which the senior, the family or a friend arranges for others to perform.
“Elderly care or elder care is a broad term encompassing such services as assisted living, adult day care, long term care, nursing homes, and hospice care. The form of elder care provided varies greatly between and within countries, and is changing rapidly. Traditionally the responsibility of families and provided within the extended family home, in modern societies elder care is frequently and increasingly provided by communities or charitable institutions.” DSC is a leading provider of community notification programs that assist elders and senior residents using our automatic calling systems. This phone reassurance program is known as CARE (Call Reassurance). Once specific application for this program is to help seniors who are victims, or potential victims of elder abuse. Homebound residents are called to ensure their well-being. If the CARE recipient does not answer the call, our system automatically generates an emergency dispatch call to either the CARE phone center or to a conce
