Recovering after a hospital stay can be overwhelming—for both your loved one and for you. Let us take the pressure off, with personalized discharge planning, smooth transitions, and compassionate in-home care. Whether it’s nursing for a post-surgery patient or discharge planning for an older patient with a stroke, we ensure expert care at home—so you can focus on being by their side, sharing moments.
At Options Home Care, our discharge planning services help seniors in Guilford County transition safely from the hospital back to the comfort of home.
We work very closely with family members, health care teams, and healthcare providers to coordinate their follow-up care, review the discharge summary, and understand the level of support your loved one needs after leaving the hospital.
Once your loved one is home, our caregivers can assist with their daily activities, mobility support, meal preparation, medication reminders, companionship, and transportation. Essentially, everything they need to recover comfortably. Our goal is to make hospital discharge planning feel less overwhelming, so that your loved one can recover safely at home with our compassionate, personalized care.
There are many people who can benefit from our discharge planning services at Options Home Care in Guilford County. This includes older adults who are recovering from a surgery, stroke, illness, injury, hospitalization, or rehab stay. If your loved one is being discharged from a facility and needs help at home, we can help determine the best level of care for them. Then, as their care needs change, so can the services we provide.
Hospital discharge planning is a team effort. Typically, hospital staff (including physicians, nurses, and/or social workers) will begin preparing a discharge plan before your loved one even leaves the facility. They’ll evaluate care needs, review medications, and outline any follow-up appointments that need to be scheduled in the coming weeks.
At Options Home Care, we step in to support that transition on the home side. We communicate directly with your loved one’s healthcare providers to make sure nothing falls through the cracks, and we work closely with family members so everyone feels informed and confident about what comes next. Once your loved one is settled at home, our caregivers can assist with daily activities, mobility support, meal preparation, medication reminders, companionship, and transportation — providing the hands-on support that makes recovery at home possible. If human services programs or community resources could further benefit your loved one’s recovery, we can help identify those as well.
Once your loved one returns home following a hospital discharge, our team is there to help. Our in-home caregivers in Guilford County can provide assistance with daily activities, mobility support, meal preparation, companionship, medication reminders, transportation, and other non-medical care needs.
We always stay in close contact with your loved one’s health care team to make sure their care aligns with any instructions from hospital staff and supports their recovery plan.
Yes, each of our Options Home Care caregivers in Guilford County is vetted before working with your loved one.
Of course. One of our main priorities is always making sure your family feels completely confident from the start with the caregiver who will be helping your loved one.
If your loved one needs help, we can usually put together a detailed at-home care plan within a few days. In fact, this can typically be done before they even get home. And of course, we’ll always talk with their medical team to learn the exact help they need.
Yes. We can provide in-home care on weekends and holidays based on your family’s needs and your loved one’s care schedule.
Yes — and if something changes with their health or care plan, including around a hospital discharge, we’ll get on the phone with their medical team ourselves to figure out the right level of support going forward.
We’re completely flexible in the type of care we provide. If your loved one in Guilford County only needs care for a couple of weeks or months while they recover, our caregivers are here to assist for that period of time.
In-home care can be considered long-term care. At Options Home Care, we accept private pay, long-term care insurance, and Medicare Part C Advantage Plans for our services.
Long-term care insurance is a private policy purchased years before care is needed, often in your 40s or 50s. It helps cover extended support with daily activities such as bathing, dressing, and mobility due to aging, illness, or disability. Unlike health insurance, it is designed specifically to pay for ongoing custodial care at home, in assisted living, or in a skilled nursing setting.
If you have long-term care insurance, benefits begin once you meet eligibility requirements, which typically include needing help with two or more activities of daily living or having a cognitive impairment. Our team works directly with all long-term care insurance companies to verify your coverage, initiate your claim, document services, and guide you through the reimbursement process so you can focus on care rather than paperwork.
Activities of Daily Living — or ADLs — are the basic things most of us do without thinking: bathing, getting dressed, eating, moving from the bed to a chair, using the bathroom, managing continence. When those start to get harder, it’s usually a sign someone needs more support at home.
ADLs also matter practically. Most long-term care insurance policies won’t kick in until your loved one needs help with at least two ADLs. Some veterans’ programs require three. If you’re trying to figure out whether your loved one qualifies for coverage, or just trying to understand what level of care makes sense, that’s exactly the kind of thing we help families sort through.
Many of our veteran clients in Guilford County receive care through the VA’s Homemaker and Home Health Aide Care program. This program is part of VA health benefits and provides non-medical assistance in the home to help veterans remain safe and independent. Services typically include help with bathing, dressing, grooming, meal preparation, light housekeeping, and other daily activities.
As an accredited VA community care provider, Options Home Care can be paid directly by the VA to provide approved home care services.
To qualify, veterans must:
Once approved, we work closely with the VA and the assigned social worker to deliver consistent, personalized care at home. We can also help you through the application process.
Some veterans and surviving spouses might also qualify for additional support through programs such as VA Aid and Attendance, which can help cover non-medical home care costs depending on service history, discharge status, care needs, and financial guidelines.
