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Important Things You Should Know about In Home Care Services (Part I)
Important Things You Should Know about In Home Care Services (Part I)
Wanting to live an independent, decent and dignified life is something that we all desire to have. And everyone, even senior adults deserve to live this kind of life. With this in view, senior in home care services have been expanding over the last few decades in order to enrich the elderly people’s lives. In home care services allow seniors to remain at home, in an environment where they feel most comfortable, instead of being in an institution-based nursing care. This way, they can still be near their loved ones even when they have some disabilities or special needs in their daily living.
This provides them a “normal atmosphere” to live a “normal life” in contrast to staying in a nursing home or hospice. For home care services, a senior may choose from the different categories available for them depending on the type of care and how much assistance they need. Care may include life assistance services or professional health care services or a combination of both. Services under these categories may include speech therapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, medication teaching, psychological assessment, wound care, disease education and management, and pain management.
This provides them a “normal atmosphere” to live a “normal life” in contrast to staying in a nursing home or hospice. For home care services, a senior may choose from the different categories available for them depending on the type of care and how much assistance they need. Care may include life assistance services or professional health care services or a combination of both. Services under these categories may include speech therapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, medication teaching, psychological assessment, wound care, disease education and management, and pain management.
However, home care often involves providing help with the activities of daily living. In home care services include the following: personal care, home maker services, and companion services.
Personal Care Services
How much personal home care services will be provided depend heavily on the senior’s individual needs. However, it often includes bathing, which is an important aspect to how well a person may feel about himself. Also, because being active is essential not only to the physical well-being of a senior but also to his mental health, a home care provider plan of daily activities which a senior might need. Of course, his physical limitations have to be considered at all times. Seniors who require a special diet can be provided meal planning and preparation by their home care service providers in coordination with the senior’s health care providers and family members. Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Elder Care: Caring for an Aging Parent? Make Sure to Take Care of Yourself
Elder Care: Caring for an Aging Parent? Make Sure to Take Care of Yourself
Senior Helper
Caring for an aging parent is one of the most noble and commendable ways to spend your time. It often involves making many sacrifices.For example, you may have given up a well paying job or some other hobby or activity you enjoy in order to devote more time to your parent. After a while, this can lead to becoming stressed out and overwhelmed. When these feelings occur, it is important to take some time for yourself.
The problem is that in many cases your elderly parent demands almost constant attention. This is particularly true if they have a condition like Alzheimer’s or dementia. The last thing you want to do is ship them off to a nursing home or large hospital. In this situation, you need to get some help. Yes, you may be the primary caregiver for your parent, but sometimes you need someone to give you some relief.
It may be time to have a family conference. Depending on how many siblings you have and their proximity to the situation, it may be possible that one or more of them could help out in looking after your parent. If no sibling is able, maybe you have a close friend that would be willing to do it for you. If there are no family members or friends able to help, then you may want to consider the services of an in home senior care agency.
You may be thinking that you can’t afford in home elder care services or you don’t need another full time caregiver. What many people don’t realize is that some in home senior care agencies offer short term services like respite care, which is designed specifically to provide relief to a family member that is also a full time caregiver. So if you are feeling overwhelm and have no other relief options, talk to a local in home senior care agency. They might have the cost effective solution you are looking for.
If you are looking for more information on In Home Care Services please visit us at Senior Helpers of NJ
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
The Different Types of Bathing Assistance
Bathing assistance is
an essential component of caregiving, given especially to clients who
are not able to do it independently. The caregiver makes it a point to
provide the hygiene needs of the client whether he performs the bath or
the client himself does it. In general, there are two types of bath,
namely cleansing and therapeutic; and the type of bath performed depends
on the self-care abilities of the client.
This type of bath refers to routine care given to
clients for their personal hygiene. There are 5 kinds of cleansing
baths, and these are shower, self-help bath, partial bath, tub bath, bed
bath, and complete bed bath.
1. Shower bath is
mainly for ambulatory clients who are still capable of taking a bath
independently. Those with some physical limitations are recommended to
use a water-resistant chair while taking a shower. The caregiver may
provide some bathing assistance with this type of bath.
2. Self-help bath is
for clients who are confined to a bed. With this type of bath, all that
the caregiver needs to do is prepare the bath equipment and provides
assistance in cleansing hard to reach areas such as the feet, legs, back
and external genitalia.
3. With partial bath,
the caregiver gives assistance in washing only those areas that might
cause irritation or odor such as the hands, face, and genitals.
4. With tub baths, the caregiver provides
bathing assistance to clients with physical limitations while going
into and out of the tub. It is also the responsibility of the caregiver
to ensure that the water temperature is safe enough for his client.
5. When administering a complete bed bath, the caregiver assists clients by washing his entire body.
In order to administer a therapeutic bath to a client, caregivers
are required to have a physician’s order or care plan. This order will
indicate the type of bath to administer, the body surface that needs
treatment, water temperature, and the kind of medication solution
needed. Therapeutic baths often last from 20-30 minutes inside a tub and
can be categorized as hot or warm bath, cool bath, soak bath, and Sitz
bath.
1. The hot or warm bath, which is done inside the tub aims at reducing soreness, muscle spasms and tension.
2. The purpose of the cool bath, which is also performed in the tub is to relieve tension and reduce body temperature in order to avoid chilling.
3. Soak bath is administered
using medicated or plain water to relieve pain, swelling and irritation
or get rid of dead skin tissues.
4. Sitz bath is done to reduce inflammation and cleanse the extra genital and anal areas.
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