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Finding a Good Home Health Care Agency
If your elderly loved one requires personal and medical assistance due to injury, illness, disability, or declining health, you may want to consider a home health care agency. Home health care agencies employ caregivers and specialists such as occupational therapists, companions, home health aides, and registered nurses. They tend to the patient at his or her own home.
Differences between Elderly Caregiver Roles
When we think of elderly caregivers, we often picture nurses working in hospitals or assisted living facilities. But the truth is that you don’t need a nursing degree to become an elderly caregiver. In fact, in some cases, all you need is a high school diploma and some training.
Caring for the elderly is a rewarding,
How Caregivers Can Communicate with Doctors and Nurses on Behalf of Seniors
Being a caregiver has many benefits and drawbacks. While caregiving can be a wonderfully rewarding and inspirational career, it’s also a very challenging job, and many caregivers find themselves frustrated with the difficulties of their positions. Of all of these challenges, though, few are more agonizing than the task of trying to figure out how best to communicate with doctors and nurses on behalf of a senior.
How Caregivers Can Learn to Provide Better Care for Older Patients
For caregivers, learning to provide care for patients is an ongoing process. Even after dozens of hours of training, caregiving is a fluid process, within which things are always changing and adapting. Different clients require different care, mental and emotional upset can rise and fall quickly, and confounding factors like dementia and cognitive decline can make it difficult to connect effectively with patients.
Signs you Should Switch from Companion Care to Overnight Care
As an elderly loved one ages, making care decisions only seems to get harder and harder.
While companion care may be enough for a while, there comes a point in every senior’s life when overnight care is needed.
While companion care offers care with the activities of daily living (ADL) such as dressing,