Your at-Home Dental Care Professionals

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A Helping Hand-at Home strives to be a respected example for providing at-home dental care in conjunction with non-medical, living assistance services and maintains as its primary goal to create extraordinary relationships between its clients and caregivers in order to provide quality care and superior service for customer satisfaction.  It takes a very special kind of person to be A Helping Hand-at Home caregiver—someone who is dedicated, compassionate, and truly cares about seniors as well as physically or mentally disabled people.

For the past 30 years, Dr. Rick Harder has been a practicing dentist in the south Orange County area.  He has provided dental care for disabled and geriatric individuals. He and his family also experienced personally the need to provide and arrange for appropriate care for his father when he suffered from a severe back injury requiring major spinal surgery and long-term care.   His family shared with other families the common frustrations that they had with few alternatives other than to place their loved ones in a skilled nursing facility.  Before long, he resolved to establish his own business to provide dental care for homebound seniors, the permanently disabled and those recovering from surgeries and accidental injuries. He has applied his training, skills and 15 years of experience as a California Dental Plan Director and Quality Assurance Consultant. (Certified by the California Association of Dental Plans.)

After his own care for his father, as well as learning from recent relevant studies conducted to assess the needs of older adults, Dr. Rick Harder decided to conduct some additional  research of the entire industry. He studied the full range of services and the training and credentials of caregivers that could have the best impact for various persons in need of home-based, assisted living services.  He reflected on the published findings and recommendations of several federal, state and locally-funded organizations that have emphasized the extensive need for more plentiful and effective home-based care giving for assisted living services. This includes oral health needs assessment and dental care. The "Key Findings" tab will list the summary of one significant recent study. 

The founder and directors of A Helping Hand-at Home have always held the philosophy that they are in business to provide the best care possible to those who need home care living assistance while giving total respect to the caregiving staff.  It's our belief that our system of screening, selecting and training our staff should be monitored to verify that we achieve the desired results. 

We perform a thorough and effective assessment of our clients' needs, properly matching the appropriate caregiver to meet those needs, and we conduct continuous surveys and follow-up assessments to assure that we are providing the best possible service to our customers.  High-quality, personalized and caring assistance to our customers will always be monitored and measured by our customer satisfaction and feedback.