Personal Care is one of the most common services of A Loving Choice Home Health Care in St. Louis, MO. Our goal is to enable happier, independent living for our clients and offer their families and loved ones peace of mind and support.

These are a few of the most common personal care service we provide.

• Bathing, dressing, grooming, caring for hair, nail and oral hygiene which are needed to facilitate treatment or to prevent deterioration of the participant’s health, changing the bed linens of an incontinent beneficiary, shaving, deodorant application, skin care with lotions and/or powder, foot care, and ear care.
• Feeding, assistance with elimination including enemas, unless the skills of a licensed nurse are required due to the patient’s condition, routine catheter care and routine colostomy care, assistance with ambulation, changing position in bed, assistance with transfers. 
• Simple dressing changes which do not require the skills of a licensed nurse (e.g., application of a topical ointment and gauze to unbroken skin).
• Assistance with medications which are ordinarily self-administered and which do not require the skills of a licensed nurse to be provided safely and effectively.
• Assistance with activities which are directly supportive of covered skilled therapy services but do not require the skills of a therapist to be safely and effectively performed such as routine maintenance exercises, and repetitive speech routines to support speech therapy. 
• Routine care of prosthetic and orthotic devices.