Home Care Service 

Preamble: Home care services is beginning to gain more prominence amongst various interdisciplinary professional practitioners across the world, especially professionals who offer care services to people in various communities and chaplaincy profession and its professional practitioners are no exemptions.

Why is Home Care Services Gaining Ground and Advocated? There are various reasons why home care services is advocated and considered profitable such reasons may include:-

1.     Increased opportunity for service users to access and receive professional care services at the comfort of their homes or residence.

2.     Providing the needed opportunity for care recipients who have mobility problems and restrictions because of illness, old age or impairment to access needed professional care services in the comfort of their homes without needing to move from their homes to care centers.

3.     Well to do people who can conveniently pay for home care services, can employ professional care practitioners for needed services in their homes for the loved ones.

4.     Where professional practitioners are very scarce and readily unavailable, care recipients who are well-to-do can readily obtain needed care services in the comfort of their homes.

5.     Home care services also provide an enabling environment for care recipients to receive confidential services without them being unduly exposed to the general public. This however will depend on the type of care services needed.

What Professional Care Practitioners must Do in Offering Such Care Services?

1.     They must learn to demonstrate total compliance with professional standard of practice even though services are to be offered in homes and residences of the cared for.

2.     They must learn to demonstrate total compliance to the codes of ethics of chaplaincy profession in the discharge of their duties even though done away from practice centers or bases.

3.     They have to learn to abide with the codes of conducts for practicing chaplains and the point of service provision remains their legitimate duty posts.

4.     They are expected to demonstrate and show forth good professional behavior for acceptance and respect and needed trust.

5.     They must endeavor to build good relationship with care recipients and their families for public recognition and acceptance.

This is important for chaplaincy profession seeking relevance and public acceptance.

Home care service is a window of opportunity that practicing professional chaplains can employ to engage in professional chaplaincy practice and service delivery, making themselves available to offer chaplaincy care services to humanity publicly as well as privately.

Other interdisciplinary professionals have employed home care services to reach out to numerous clients of theirs such as:-

a.     In the education sector, we have home tutors or home teachers preparing students for national and international examinations.

b.     Nurses and midwives are also known to have employed home care services to reach out to their patients in their various homes.

c.      Some physicians, especially those who are still seeking to find their footings are known to be favourably disposed to home care services for them to earn needed recognition and trust. 

Cost Effectiveness of Home Care Services: Home care service is cost effective as it eliminates to some extent, office or practice center investment; especially for young emerging care services providers who are yet to have established practice center and bases.

Existing practice centers seeking expansion can also employ the home care service method in offering needed care.

Wide Spectrum Home Care Services:

Preamble: There are occasions when professional care services are needed by professional practitioners, especially professional chaplains who have received authorization to practice as ‘General Chaplaincy Practitioners’ and not specialist practitioners.

Purpose: Purpose of this article is to sensitize professional chaplains to think of considering venturing into providing needed chaplaincy care and services to people in their homes for reasons best known to the practitioners, most especially those who are still battling with what to do in providing beneficial services to the public.

What were Home Care Service Entails?

1.     Provision of general chaplaincy care services to care recipients in their homes which does not require attention of specialist practitioners.

2.     Providing needed chaplaincy care services within the competence of chaplaincy profession.

3.     Making care provision readily available to the public in their homes.

4.     This kind of service is cost effective and less traumatic as care recipients remain in the comfort of their homes.

5.     In case of complications; chaplains have the right to make referral to appropriate professional or colleague.

Why Home Care Service is Suitable for the Aged, Old People and People with Disabilities and Impairments without Mobility?

With home care service these set of individuals can enjoy needed care services in the comfort of their homes and residence.

Conclusion: Home care services is a form of private professional chaplaincy practice that can be employed by qualified chaplains. if other interdisciplinary professionals have found this services profitable, why will professional chaplains feel differently.

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Chap. David Mike-Jacobs CPC, CPST, BCC.

Professor of Anthropology, Certified Chaplaincy Educator & Trainer.

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14^th Jan, AD2022