Home Health Massage

[Cute Latin Girl]

My mom had knee surgery mnday and she has an elderly woman for a roommate.  I have spent hours in my moms room keeping her company and wha not.  However the elderly woman had only two visites and they stayed only a little while.  I did want I could to help keep her company and to get the nurce when she needed one but her situation got me thinking.As the population of the U.S and threw the use of monderin medicine we as a country are getting older and living longer!  Unfortunently as that happens more and more people are going to experince what that elderly woman did.  When I worked as a HHA and a CNA I saw it all the time.So this is my plan....... HOME HEALTH MASSAGE1.  Offer in home massage to the elderly population that already uses HHA type service.  Take this service into nursing homes as well.2.  Provide this service to only medicaly stable clients or those who hae doctor approval.3.  Offer the massage in shorter sessions and for a cheeper price (somthing that can fit into their budget since most of them are on a fixed income)4.  Start a small stretching "exercise" program designed to be gentel and easy to do yet help keep them moving to the best of their ability.  What I havnt figured out yet is how to bill.  Rather to try to bill the client/family or to bill insurance companies.I was wondering if anyone else has ever done this kind of thing and if it worked for them and how they did the billing.

 

[magnoliafan]

I haven't done this myself but it's an interesting concept.  Just the visit/company (meaning companionship) in itself would probably be very much welcomed and appreciated.  Even if you just offered hand/arm massage or simple massages for the touch factor.  I have been to nursing homes to give chair massage and I know that every single individual that I worked on was so happy to see us come in.  Another therapist and I donated our services to come in.  Some of the clients just sat in a reg. chair and we worked on their hands.  They were all so thankful and the staff said they talked about us coming for days before we got there!  It's something definitely worth checking into if you're interested.  

 

[Seth]

Hey guys,Great idea but it is very important to have geriatric massage training to work on the elderly and ill.  I am a geriatric massage theripist and instructor and go throughout the country giving workshops.  Check http://www.daybreak-massage.comWe're all for it and are behind you.  But to have a  certificate stating that you are certified in geriatric massage goes a long way with MD's and nursing homes.Would want to revisit the gentle stretching - what we think as gentle stretching may be altogether different for the geriatric client.Joyce Garland, RN, LMBT )