Having someone senior at home is like having an umbrella above your head. They guide us with their valuable experiences and advice from their lives. If you have an older person at home, they need to be given time, love, care, and enough attention. But we are not able to take care of them due to work and busyness. We can contact Home Health Gravesend, they provide the necessary support needed for the older and beloved family members we have.
With ageing, different diseases nestle in the human body. Some older people need regular checkups with physicians, some become senescent with mental diseases and some people need regular care and assistance in daily activities. Home nurses provide different services depending on the needs of the patients.
The basic care offerings by the caregivers:
Personal care:
Personal care is non-medical care offered by home health services. Older people prefer staying at home rather than being at hospitals or in a sanatorium. Patients with Alzheimer's tend to forget miscellaneous tasks they do every day. A basic caregiver helps them eat, take medicines, bathe and offer them some companionship.
Long term care:
These are intensive care for clinically diagnosed patients with severe disease or disability for a long time. Keeping them in the hospital for a longer period is like detaching them from the family and that is expensive too. Home-based nursing provides critical equipment support like ventilator care and maintaining doses of the medicines when needed.
Short term care:
Short-time caregiver supports any specific incident for a short period. The patients are mostly the people with an injury or accident. They are mostly recommended by the clinician from home health support services. Nurses only follow the instructions given by the doctors.
Home is always a peaceful nest for us. Patients recover faster if they are around home and family members. Relatives also feel relieved seeing their family members being treated at home not in the hospitals.