As people age, each of us will have different needs as we progress into our senior years. There are 93-year old women who are still busy and vital, doing chores like gardening as well as driving themselves to and from church, also keeping in touch with their families. There are also those who are much younger yet already have medical issues that keep them almost bedridden therefore having poor qualities of life. If you are thinking of acquiring professional personal elder care for an elderly loved one, then check out the basics below that you need to know:
Types of Elderly Care
Nursing Homes: a residential facility for someone with health problems that require 24-hour care. Nursing homes represent a 'halfway' point between someone who can get by at home, and someone who needs 24-hour hospitalization. Most nursing homes have nurses or nursing aids on call at all hours of the day or night. They provide services such as speech therapy, physical therapy, rehabilitative services, and dietary services. They offer both long-term and short-term care.
In Home Care is an ideal option for seniors who wish to remain in a familiar, comfortable environment and/or with loved ones while they require personal care. At-home caregivers are combination medical experts and domestic engineers, equally capable of administering drugs in response to a heart attack or cooking a healthy, tasty meal every day for months.
Assisting Living is a kind of personal care for the elderly who can't stay at home alone and don't have family who can take them in, but still want independence from the clinical nature of a nursing home. Assisted living offers a residential facility that is similar to a nursing home, but in independent units where each individual lives in their own home or suite, but receives in-home help with meals, laundry, cleaning, and so on as well as daily or weekly nurses' visits.
Living with your Family is the much cheaper but quite the most stressful and dangerous choice of In-Home Care. Most people like to believe that all their families are capable of taking care of them as they grow older, but the ever increasing and complicated pharmaceutical and medical rules when combined with the added stress of giving 24-hour medical care can just as well break a family apart much quicker.
Retirement Communities are like Assisted Living Lite in many circumstances. Retirement communities do not often provide significant medical facilities, but they do offer basic amenities like grounds keeping, security, and community. If you have minor medical issues, living in a retirement community and having a daily or weekly visit from a nurse and/or family member can work.
Cruise Ships, surprisingly, they offer good medical care, and they are often much of the same quality as in nursing homes. In addition, they happen to be the giant traveling parties that go on forever. They are more expensive compared to nursing homes, but the ability to enjoy and live your life going to beautiful places and meeting an ever-changing array of people can be a great improvement over the clinical nature of the usual retirement plan.
Adult Day Care is an excellent option for families that want to take care of infirm relatives. You can care for your loved one between dinner and breakfast, and then send them to an adult day care to have them entertained and medically overseen while you go about your day free to do what you want to do.
The options for getting personal elder care for elderly loved ones are more various than even these, but most of the others involve moving to specific countries to take advantage of various organizations; in this article, we have covered almost every option that makes sense for an aging American.
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Personal Care for Your Loved Ones That Are Elderly
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