In-home care · Omaha metro
Recreational activities
People do not stop being interested in things because they got old; they stop because the people they did those things with are gone, or it became too much effort to set up. Most of this is finding out what they used to love and making it possible again.
What a caregiver actually does
Not a category — the specific things that happen while somebody is in the house.
- Cards, chess, dominoes, crosswords, puzzles
- Music — their music, and playing it rather than talking over it
- Gardening, in a raised bed or a pot on the step if that is what works
- Crafts, sewing, model-making, whatever the hobby actually was
- Light exercise and chair-based movement
- Photographs, letters and going through the boxes nobody has opened
Is it time?
What is usually happening when families call about this
If two or three of these sound like your house, it is worth a phone call. It costs nothing to ask.
The hobbies stopped and nothing replaced them
Days that have no shape to them at all
They light up talking about something they used to do
Low mood that everybody has decided is just part of getting old
How recreational activities gets paid for
Three different situations, three different answers. One of these is yours.
Please read this bit
We are a non-medical home care company
That means our caregivers help with daily life — washing, dressing, meals, mobility, housekeeping, company and getting to appointments. It is skilled, trained, background-checked help, and for most families it is exactly what is needed.
If any of that is what you need, say so and we will tell you straight — often the answer is a home health agency or hospice for the clinical side, with us doing the daily hours around it. We work alongside both, and we would rather point you to the right place than take a booking we cannot do properly.
What we do not do
- No nursing care, injections or IVs
- We remind and prompt about medication; we never administer it
- No wound care, catheters or clinical procedures
- No physical, occupational or speech therapy
- No diagnosing, and nothing that needs a nurse or a doctor
Questions families ask
- He says he is not interested in anything.
- Usually he is not interested in what has been suggested. We spend the first visits finding out what he did for forty years rather than offering a colouring book, and the answer is often something nobody had thought to ask about.
- Does this work with dementia?
- Often better than conversation does. Music and things done with the hands survive a long way into dementia, well after names and dates have gone.
Families who needed this usually needed one of these too
Medicaid waiver services
Approved provider. We bill the waiver directly, including for family caregivers.
Care for specific conditions
Parkinson’s, stroke recovery, diabetes, post-surgical care and end-of-life support at home.
Personal care assistance
Bathing, dressing, toileting and grooming, done in a way that keeps their dignity intact.
Recreational activities in
Not sure whether recreational activities is what you need?
Tell us what is going on and we will tell you honestly — including when the answer is somebody other than us.