What Do EDEN's Home Health Aides Do?

EDEN’s Senior Care Advisor

• provides strategic guidance with expert advice to locate the right assisted living or memory care facility for your needs
• take into consideration care needs, geographic preference and budget
• work with advisors local to the area
• advise on resources to coordinate this smooth transition- moving companies, elder law attorneys, etc.
• offer services for free as they are paid by care facilities

Anodyne MIRE Therapy:

•  Is a form of light therapy 

•  Relieves painful symptoms such as irregularities in blood circulation, muscle spasms and stiffness. 

•  Increases blood circulation

•  Reduce neuropathy-impacting fall rate

•  It is primarily intended for individuals that already participate in physical therapy and/or occupational therapy programs because it enhances those more conventional forms of treatment.

Ailments Commonly Treated with Anodyne Therapy Infrared Light include but are not limited to:

•  Acute Pain or Injuries

•  Arthritis

•  Bursistis

•  Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

•  Diabetic Nuropathy

•  Muscle Strains and Sprains

•  Numbness and Tingling

•  Osteoarthritis

•  Peripheral Artery Disease

•  Pain and Poor Circulation Post Chemotherapy

•  TMJ

Portable EKG machine is a device that works with your smartphone or tablet and allows you to take an ECG recording for screening cardiac patients from the comfort of their home.

A urinalysis screening is used to detect and address a wide range of disorders, such as urinary tract infections, kidney disease, and diabetes.

We organize insulin delivery and management for people with diabetes. We also provide consultation and training on healthy eating habits through basic nutrition knowledge, meal-planning, weight-loss strategies, and other diabetes-specific counseling. We help to develop personal strategies and skills for self-management of diabetes. One of the key points of this training is learning to use the A1C blood test for Type 2 diabetes and prediabetes. It measures your average blood sugar level over the past three months.

IV therapy is the fastest way to deliver medications and blood products directly into the bloodstream. It helps with various health conditions, dehydration, and blood transfusions.

Wound care* Specialized treatment of non-healing wounds.

INR monitoring* INR is a measurement of blood coagulation in the circulatory system. It is used to determine the clotting rate of blood, which can be affected by anticoagulant usage, liver damage, and Vitamin K levels.

*Subject to review for clinical appropriateness of private services and accepted on a case by case basis based on complexity.

EDEN’S Skilled Nursing

• Registered Nurse, Licensed Practical Nurse
• EDEN’s nurses are highly skilled and trained in complex disease management.
• These services are especially appropriate in helping someone recover from illness or accident, or whenever medical conditions require the supervision of a skilled nurse.
• EDEN’s nurses are educated to understand and treat the often complex physical and mental health needs of their clients.
• EDEN’s nurses provide these services: Insulin injections, diabetes education, A1C testing, INR monitoring, urine analysis, wound care/wound vac, cardiac screening-portable EKG machine, medication management.
• Our service areas are Arlington, Bedford, Belmont, Burlington, Lexington, Waltham, Watertown

Physical Therapy:

• EDEN’s PTs are highly trained and experienced specialists, that evaluate the client’s needs with patient-centered goals.
• Our aim is to help seniors achieve their maximum independence and continue to have a good quality of life in the setting they are in.
• We provide outpatient PT services in client’s homes and bring modalities (Ultrasound, Anodyne Therapy, KT tape) and therapeutic equipment as needed.
• We provide PT treatments for fall prevention, muscle strengthening, pain management, post-surgical and other orthopedic conditions, neurological, cardiovascular and pulmonary rehab, vestibular rehab, etc.
• EDEN’s practice locations include many towns in Middlesex counties and surrounding counties.

Additional services:

-Occupational Therapy

-Speech/Language Pathology Services