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Elder Home Care (Part II) By Peter Mangiola RN Msn
Home Care Services
In-home evaluation can help determine the right type of care and services that your senior loved one truly needs.
Caregivers can provide any of the following services: conversation and caring companionship, meal planning and preparation, grocery shopping and transportation, laundry and other light housekeeping services, assistance in walking, bathing, hygiene, dressing, and eating.
This wide range of services can be classified as follows:
Alzheimer’s or Dementia Care
If your loved one has Alzheimer’s or dementia, then you should contact those who are experts in providing this specific care. To make your senior’s life more trouble-free, caregivers often customize a caregiving plan that adjusts quickly to your senior’s changing needs. Make sure you hire caregivers who had been trained to handle this kind of client whose activities they should closely monitor and whose medication they should administer on time.
Daily Visits
If your loved one does not need a high level of assistance each day, you can enroll him in a program that provides him with the right amount of attention and service. It can range from a one-hour to four-hour daily visit, from five to seven days each week, during which caregivers provide companionship, medication reminder, meal preparation, and hygiene assistance (if necessary). This kind of part-time service affords family members peace of mind knowing that someone is paying their loved one a visit on a regular basis.
Sitter Services
Naturally, you want to stay with your loved one every single moment of the day, however, this is virtually impossible. If he or she is in a hospital, assisted living facility, nursing home, or continuing care community, you can ask a caregiver to monitor his or her stay so you can take some rest. These caregivers, who can be available 24 hours a day, can give you access to a quick-start in-home care services, allowing your senior loved one to make a seamless transition back home.
Veteran’s Services
You might not know it, but a loved one who has served in the US armed forces is qualified to receive home care assistances from the Veterans Administration. With this program, you can reimburse your home care expenses if your veteran loved one satisfies certain criteria and this include the following:
• Veteran must have had a total of 90 days or more of service time and must have served at least one day during a war.
• Surviving spouse must have been married to the deceased veteran.
• A doctor’s prescription that says the veteran has need of daily aid.
• You should not have more than $80,000 in savings and checking, excluding your home or vehicles.
• Veteran must have received a general or an honorable discharge.
• You are not on state assistance like Medicaid or other subsidized programs due to low income.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Benefits of Home Nursing Care (Part I)
Benefits of Home Nursing Care (Part I)
Many seniors who are too sick or frail to live in their homes often think that the nursing homes are their only option either as their permanent residence or as a temporary facility during their recovery. However, many seniors who need nursing care would rather receive it in their own home while enjoying a familiar environment with their family and friends. Good thing there are community services and health care professionals who can provide him thehome nursing care he needs. These professionals can come right to a senior’s home to deliver responsible care.
Certified home nursing care services are available both for seniors and their families. In general, seniors who decide to receive in home nursing care services have better opportunities to live a healthy and productive life at home. By opting to hire home nursing care providers, they receive a lot of rewarding benefits, the most important of which is quality medical services which is personalized according to their individual’s needs.
Deciding on Home Nursing Care
Deciding whether your senior loved one needs home nursing care or not can be difficult not only for the patient but for his family as well. Your healthcare decision mainly depends on recognizing important quality measures that will tell you whether such service is effective or not. With this in mind, you should consider the best agency or candidate that not only meets the medical review standards but are also able to offer services that are compassionate and compatible to the needs of seniors to help them live a quality life independently as long as possible.
A good healthcare agency should be able to provide excellent patient care. They should be able to offer healthcare services that are practical and effective. Keep in mind that home care should be able to save lives by proper medication administration, providing suitable ways of managing pain level and wound healing, and prevent chronic diseases. A good health care provider or agency should be able to provide this level of care to your senior loved one.
Senior home healthcare services generally include competent nursing care, personal assistance and health aids, and complete wellness programs. Skilled nurses are licensed clinical staff hired in order to maintain or improve an in-home patient’s condition as well as to prevent more illnesses. Some of the services that skilled nurses provide are administering of medications, implement disease management programs, and execute advanced technology. Furthermore, skilled nurses help ensure that home nursing care services are fulfilled effectively and safely.
On the other hand, personal assistance providers and health aids, who are all non-professional medical staff provide assistance in the usual daily activities. More specifically, health aids assist seniors with such daily activities as bathing, eating, and walking. They may also provide assistance in monitoring bladder catheters or colostomy or in administering oxygen. The responsibilities of health aids are necessary in restoring the optimum level of health and function of a senior.Saturday, February 11, 2012
Comparing the Costs Effective Senior Care Options (Part II)
Comparing the Costs Effective Senior Care Options (Part II)
April 13, 2011 — Senior Helper
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Choose In Home Senior Care for your Parents
The third and best elder care option for your aging parent is in home care. There are several reasons why this is the case:
1) The Financing Costs are Lower Than Other Options
While senior in home care is not cheap, it’s still a lower cost option than the alternatives. One of the biggest reasons is it allows the aging loved one to stay in their present home. Right away that saves on a myriad of expenses (both time and money) for moving to your home or a nursing facility. It also saves you the trouble of putting the house up for sale when the market is bad. Furthermore, the cost of in home elder care is far less than a nursing home. Finally, because your parents will still be in their house, you can use it to finance the in home care using a method like a reverse mortgage.
2) Plans are Flexible and Tailored to the Individual
If you ship your parents off to some large and impersonal hospital or nursing home, your parents will never get the individual attention they need. Nothing against nursing homes, they do the best with what they have, but they are simply not structured in a way that they can cater to the individual. With an in home senior care agency, you’ll have a plan customized to fit the needs of your parents, which will insure that they are receiving the proper care to address their specific health concerns.
3) Provides Much Needed Companionship
Quality of life is a big issue among older people. When the elderly feel lonely, their quality of life suffers. A great advantage of in home care is that a qualified nurse will not only care for your aging parents, they will also be their friend. The nurse can check in with them as often as you like and make sure everything is okay, as well as visit with them for a while. With this kind of individual attention, your parents are sure to enjoy a much greater quality of life in their retirement years.
For More information or assistance with your Elder Care needs please visit Senior Helpers Elder Care NJ
Choose In Home Senior Care for your ParentsThe third and best elder care option for your aging parent is in home care. There are several reasons why this is the case:
1) The Financing Costs are Lower Than Other Options
While senior in home care is not cheap, it’s still a lower cost option than the alternatives. One of the biggest reasons is it allows the aging loved one to stay in their present home. Right away that saves on a myriad of expenses (both time and money) for moving to your home or a nursing facility. It also saves you the trouble of putting the house up for sale when the market is bad. Furthermore, the cost of in home elder care is far less than a nursing home. Finally, because your parents will still be in their house, you can use it to finance the in home care using a method like a reverse mortgage.
2) Plans are Flexible and Tailored to the Individual
If you ship your parents off to some large and impersonal hospital or nursing home, your parents will never get the individual attention they need. Nothing against nursing homes, they do the best with what they have, but they are simply not structured in a way that they can cater to the individual. With an in home senior care agency, you’ll have a plan customized to fit the needs of your parents, which will insure that they are receiving the proper care to address their specific health concerns.
3) Provides Much Needed Companionship
Quality of life is a big issue among older people. When the elderly feel lonely, their quality of life suffers. A great advantage of in home care is that a qualified nurse will not only care for your aging parents, they will also be their friend. The nurse can check in with them as often as you like and make sure everything is okay, as well as visit with them for a while. With this kind of individual attention, your parents are sure to enjoy a much greater quality of life in their retirement years.
For More information or assistance with your Elder Care needs please visit Senior Helpers Elder Care NJ
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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
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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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Friday, January 27, 2012
Could Your Parent Have Dementia? The Top Rated In Home Health Care Company In Manahawkin Nj Talks About Dementia
Could Your Parent Have Dementia? The Top Rated In Home Health Care Company In Manahawkin Nj Talks About Dementia
As we age, it's perfectly normal for all of us to forget certain things from time to time. As many as 5.3 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease and it's the most common form of dementia. Dementia is defined as a state of serious emotional and mental deterioration. This is not to be confused with Alzheimer's. While Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, seniors can suffer from dementia and not have Alzheimer's.
A person with dementia struggles with memory loss and other mental abilities that are severe enough tointerfere with everyday activities. It's caused by changes in the brain and generally doesn't start until around age 65 and older, although it can start in any stage of adulthood. There are other illnesses that mimic dementia-like symptoms such as depression, drug interactions, thyroid problems, excess use of alcohol or some vitamin deficiencies. Be sure to address any of these possible illnesses with your parent's doctor if you suspect they may be an issue.
A person with dementia struggles with memory loss and other mental abilities that are severe enough tointerfere with everyday activities. It's caused by changes in the brain and generally doesn't start until around age 65 and older, although it can start in any stage of adulthood. There are other illnesses that mimic dementia-like symptoms such as depression, drug interactions, thyroid problems, excess use of alcohol or some vitamin deficiencies. Be sure to address any of these possible illnesses with your parent's doctor if you suspect they may be an issue.
According to the Alzheimer's Association the 10 most common signs of Alzheimer's:
- Memory loss that disrupts daily life
- Challenges in planning or solving problems
- Difficulty completing familiar tasks at home, at work or at leisure
- Confusion with time or place
- Trouble understanding visual images and spatial relationships
- New problems with words in speaking or writing
- Misplacing things and losing the ability to retrace steps
- Decreased or poor judgment
- Withdrawal from work or social activities
- Changes in mood and personality
Memory loss that disrupts daily life is not a typical part of aging. It may be a symptom of Alzheimer's, a fatal brain disease that causes a slow decline in memory, thinking and reasoning skills. Every individual may experience one or more of these signs in different degrees. If you notice any of them, please see a doctor.
If your loved one is suffering from Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia, it can also take a tremendous toll on your own physical and emotional well-being. There's no need to go it alone. Senior Helpers can create a customized care plan that changes as your loved one's needs change. We'll help your loved one cope better with a cueing program that stimulates their ability to remember and we'll carefully monitor everything from medication to daily activities. As experts in Alzheimer's and dementia care, you can trust Senior Helpers to make your loved one's life-and yours-much easier and more enjoyable!
Senior Helpers can help your loved one live independently at home for many wonderful years to come! Please visit our website to learn how we can help you.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
How Far Should a Caregiver Go in Helping an Elderly Person with His Daily Routine?By Peter Mangiola Rn Bsn
How Far Should a Caregiver Go in Helping an Elderly Person with His Daily Routine?By Peter Mangiola Rn Bsn
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The level of intervention that a caregiver should give in helping an elderly person with his daily routine depends on his needs. A bed-bound elderly person obviously requires more personal senior care- like someone to give him a bed bath, while a more active elderly person might just need some amount of assistance in doing his personal hygiene routine. If you are not experienced in the elder care industry, getting advice from professional caregiverscould help establish a necessary level of intervention. This could be a nurse or a doctor, who is able to provide both aid and training in managing personal hygiene routines.
In general, most professional caregivers advise that elderly people be given the freedom to perform their personal hygiene routines by themselves. An elderly person, for instance, who can still move his arms, should be allowed to wash his own face or brush his teeth. Even if it might take forever for him to finish these basic routines, it is still important that you allow him that freedom. This will not only save him from being completely dependent on you, his caregiver, but this will also help him maintain his mobility as well as reduces your senior care workload.
How frequently should an elderly person shower?Not all senior persons need a full bath each day. However, all of them need to have their face, underarms, and private parts washed daily.
Bathing and Shower Tips for Mobile SeniorsHere are some tips to remember when helping a mobile senior have a bath or shower.
In general, most professional caregivers advise that elderly people be given the freedom to perform their personal hygiene routines by themselves. An elderly person, for instance, who can still move his arms, should be allowed to wash his own face or brush his teeth. Even if it might take forever for him to finish these basic routines, it is still important that you allow him that freedom. This will not only save him from being completely dependent on you, his caregiver, but this will also help him maintain his mobility as well as reduces your senior care workload.
How frequently should an elderly person shower?Not all senior persons need a full bath each day. However, all of them need to have their face, underarms, and private parts washed daily.
Bathing and Shower Tips for Mobile SeniorsHere are some tips to remember when helping a mobile senior have a bath or shower.
- Place a non-slip mat at the bottom of the bath or shower.
- Put a non-skid bathmat that has a rubber base in front of the bath or shower.
- Install steady grab rails at the senior’s bath that can support him anytime he gets in and out of the bath.
- Put a stable shower seat inside the shower so that the senior can use it in case he needs to sit down while bathing.
- Always ensure that the water temperature in the bath or shower is neither too hot nor too cold.
- If the senior in your care would rather bath or shower on his own, ensure that he always leaves the bathroom door unlocked.
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Assisted Living for Your Senior Parents
For children of senior parents, it
might be a tough decision to sign up their parents for assisted living.
However, pretty soon they’ll realize that it is for the better. In fact, the most challenging part is on
recognizing the signs that your parent is already in need of these services. As
soon as you notice some of the things I’ll discuss below, then it is high time
to think through your options. You and your parents will have a much better life
if they have someone staying with them who can help them go through their daily
lives properly and safely.
1. Depression. This is a common and
strong sign that a senior is in need of assisted living. While depression may
be a normal phenomenon after the death of a spouse, it should not continue many
years after. And while you may not be clear how to identify depression, you can
look around and see if menial things such as keeping the house clean or the
refrigerator full are being neglected. When they fail to do these things, it
not only means that the elder is physically incapable of doing the work, but
also that they are no longer aware or care about these things.
2. When seniors start wearing the same
clothes every day then it’s a clear indicator that they are in need of assisted
living. Often, these seniors also stop brushing their teeth or taking a bath.
As soon as you notice this, you’ll have to ask for help quickly because their
health is at risk.
3. If you notice that your senior
parent is getting cuts or bruises frequently you should act immediately for
them to receive proper care as soon as possible. This is because as a person
gets older, his skin becomes more fragile and cannot heal fast.
While some of the signs above are
obvious, others require your careful observation. But the bottom line is that
when you notice any of these signs in your aging parent, then it’s time to
consider getting an assisted living service for him. By far, this is the best
thing you can do for him so that they will have the care that they desperately
need. At the end of the day, they will live a happier and healthier life and
you can have the peace of mind knowing that they are always being taken care
of.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Dispelling Myths About Home Care: What Home Care Is and Isn't
Dispelling Myths About Home Care: What Home Care Is and Isn't
Home Care. These two words may overwhelm families as they're considering viable options for their aging and/or ailing relative. Home Care allows a person with special needs to remain in their home, and may encompass a variety of roles such as personal care (i.e., bathing, washing your hair, getting dressed), homemaking (i.e., cleaning and yardwork), cooking or delivering meals, and health care such as having a home health aide come to your home.While it entails a variety of situations such as people getting older, people who are chronically ill, recovering from surgery or disabled, there are many myths about home care to become aware of as you consider the possibility.
Home care is only for old people.
"People of all ages are eligible for home care," says peter mangiola Rn msn at Senior Helpers Of Burlington and Ocean counties in new jersey. In fact, he notes older patients aren't the only people receiving care; mothers and babies receive services as well as older individuals. In addition, home care may be necessary for a variety of life altering situations such as car accidents, unanticipated illnesses, or other mishaps.
The quality of care provided at home is inferior compared to institutionalized care.
According to Mangiola, the clinical training of the staff for home care is the same if not better than training in institutions. he explains, "The clinicians need to be very well versed since they're on their own inside a home. It's not uncommon to have advanced medical treatments such as intravenous therapy and ventilator care to be done at home."
Home care is the solution to a problem.
In essence, Maria Porchia, RN, ceo of senior helpers of ocean and burlington counties in new Jersey, indicates that home care is quite the opposite: it finds ways to solve the problem. "The purpose of visits is to teach family members how to provide care for their loved ones in the home." She adds, "It will open them to the resources in their communities that will be able to assist them to function at their highest level if possible where they were prior to hospitalization." For instance, patients and family members are taught how to do procedures such as uncomplicated wound care and post-orthopedic home exercises.
Home care is an alternative to other care options such as a hospital or nursing home.
This is simply not true, according to peter mangiola Rn. Actually, home care provided by professional caregivers often supplements other care arrangements and helps ensure patients receive the care they need and deserve. "Instead of viewing home care as a replacement for other care arrangements, it is about meeting people's needs and wants regardless of where or when services are provided or who else is involved in the care process."
Home care is expensive and only wealthy people can afford it.
Peter Ross, CEO and co-founder of Senior Helpers, says there are actually many ways for seniors to afford quality home care. "With new programs such as reverse mortgages, VA benefits, long-term care insurance, and access to state and local programs such as Medicaid, many more families are able to afford quality home care for their loved one."
Long-term care only exists in a nursing home.
This is not the case for many families according to Ross. He explains, "If the senior has medical issues that require health care throughout the day, a nursing home may be the right option however, most seniors require assistance and many times it is non-medical. Seniors want to live out their life in their own homes."
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