When loved ones face elderly, chronic, or terminal illness or complications, weakness can compound an already difficult fight for quality of life and well-being. Without consistent in-home support, patients can suffer weakening complications, like falls, anemia, and pneumonia.
Here are 3 ways home health care services keep love ones stronger longer.
Nutrition feeds our muscles, our joints, our bones, and our brains to keep us strong enough to face daily tasks. In turn, poor nutrition causes weakness that often leads to illness, falls, and poor health. A home health care provider helps patients manage consistent nutrition. They are trained to adhere to diets, prepare nutritious meals, and work around difficulties like nausea and choking hazards. They even ensure consistent access to nutrition with services like grocery shopping, monitoring for choking, and education.
Home health care services help keep patients moving
When elderly or ill patients have difficulty ambulating, time spent in bed causes growing weakness. In turn, patients develop weakness that hinders standing, walking, and even proper breathing. As weakness grows, little exercise can cause dangerous complications like blood clots and pneumonia. Home health care services help patients remain active by encouraging the use of supportive equipment; helping patients to stand, walk, and sit upright; and even monitoring light exercise to keep patients strong.
Home health care services protects against complications
When patients who need 24/7 care are home alone, they experience greater complications. Because they often don’t have the needed support to get out of bed on a daily basis, they can form related complications like pneumonia, blood clots, depression, and even cancer. If they do try to get out of bed, growing weakness from time spent in bed makes them greater fall risks.
And, without support, many can’t consistently prepare their own nutritious meals, leaving them at higher risk for anemia and brittle bones. When you can’t be there with your loved ones, home health care providers bridge the gap, providing monitoring and support services that keep complications at bay.
Firstat Nursing Services has been providing a higher standard of home nursing, home health and home care services for elderly, disabled and injured people in the greater San Diego area since 1997.
To give families and seniors a better understanding of how in-home care can help their daily lives, Firstat has developed a free online assessment tool.
To see how it can help, go to: Best Caregivers Agency Rancho Bernardo or call 619-220-7600 to learn more.
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