Helping seniors get out into the community and helping them with needed errands, these are some of the goals for Advantage Home Care. Many seniors have lost the ability to drive an automobile, leading to the loss of independence and the need to become dependent on family, friends, neighbors as well as private and public transportation providers.

• Run all kinds of errands, pick up prescriptions, dry cleaning, or supplies for social events
  
  
• Take seniors in their vehicles to the grocery story, the shopping mall, visits with friends, restaurants, movie theaters or any other desired activities
  
  
• Accompany seniors to medical appointments, transporting them and if appropriate, taking notes and sharing information with the physician
  
  
• Through our Welcome Home Program pick up our clients when they are released from the hospital, take them home and spend six hours with them to get settled. The caregiver will make them comfortable, clean up their home, change their linens, go food shopping and cook a meal all for a fixed price of $149.00*.
  

All caregivers are required to have safe driving records and comprehensive liability insurance policies on their vehicles. In addition, their insurance is supplemented by a blanket liability policy maintained by the company. Clients who still have their own cars can also request their caregivers to drive their (the client’s) vehicles when providing transportation so long as the client has liability insurance on their own vehicle.

When a caregiver provides transportation for a client, the senior is charged the going mileage reimbursement rate recommended by the federal government. On January 1, 2009 this rate was $.525 per mile although it varies from year to year based upon inflation and the fluctuating cost of gasoline. Advantage Home care passes the entire mileage charge to the caregiver. Should our client have an insured vehicle and prefer our caregivers to drive that vehicle there is no charge to the client.

This service allows our clients to maintain their independence and benefit by continuing to be socially active in their communities. The importance of social activity is extremely important to the overall well the elderly. Too often the challenges of aging, declining health and the ability to drive force senior citizens to become isolated and there is a tendency to eliminate activities that were once a cause for engagement and healthy contact with others. Advantage Home Care caregivers understand the need for our clients to participate in activities in the community and facilitate this continued contact whenever possible.

* the Welcome Home package may also include a mileage charge for all if mileage from the hospital to the client’s home exceeds 20 miles.