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Elder Care

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What is Carefirst Elder Care?

Elder care is the cornerstone of home healthcare. Senior citizens staying with family or by themselves, enjoying the well-earned leisure of their golden years is the central subject of elder care.

It is a broad term that stands for assisted living, adult day-care, long-term care, and home care. Elderly care emphasizes the social and personal requirements of senior citizens who wish to age with dignity while they need assistance with daily activities and healthcare. It is an important distinction, in that the design of housing, services, activities, employee training and such should be truly customer-centered.

Elaborate the conditions that require medical elder care or skilled care?

As the name suggests, this requires the active participation of a medically trained person to care for the elderly. Here are some elder family members who need medical assistance on a continuous basis:

  • Persons with elevated hypertension, blood sugar (diabetes) or cholesterol levels even with regular medication. This can be with or without the presence of other co-morbidities.
  • Seniors living with moderate to advanced levels of neurological impairments like Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s. Fall prevention and the control of after effects of minor strokes are key considerations.
  • Palliative care and end of life care patients. For elders who have begun palliative care, curative therapy is not necessarily over.
  • Elder persons living with any form of cancer that has been detected to be malignant and treatment has begun.
  • Elder persons with stage 4 or 5 Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) or renal failure. Normally persons at this stage would require regular dialysis.
  • Pulmonary (lung) disease that leads to shortness of breath with limited exertion, e.g. stage 2 (moderate) and 3 (severe) of COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) or anyone who is dependent on non-invasive ventilation like CPAP or BiPAP machine.
  • Coronary heart disease that has led to a heart attack in the past or the elderly person is living with conditions like angina, arrhythmia, cardiomyopathy or heart valve disease.
  • Elderly persons affected by chronic liver disease with some form of fibrosis or cirrhosis, especially when symptoms like unexplained weight loss, nausea, yellowing of skin are manifested.

Elaborate the conditions that require non-medical elder care or social care?

We must not forget the vast number of elderly persons who don’t have any of the serious medical condition mentioned above but still require assistance to maintain their quality of life and wellbeing. This does not need a dedicated medically trained person but an attendant nurse or caregivers in the family.

Here are the instances where non-medical elder care is necessary:

  • Elders living by themselves as immediate family don’t live with them or are not in a position to physically care for their elderly loved one.
  • Elders who need assistance to promote their independence. Majority of otherwise healthy older adults are scared of losing their independence more than they fear death. Older adults who require assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs like bathing, toothbrushing etc) are at a greater risk of losing their independence. Caregivers need to be conscious of actions and behaviors that cause older adults to become dependent on them and need to allow older patients to maintain as much independence as possible.
  • Elders who need motivation and assistance to improve their physical mobility. Impaired mobility is a major health concern for older adults, affecting 50% of people over 85 years and at least a fourth of those over 75 years old. As adults lose the ability to walk, to climb stairs, and to rise from a chair, they become completely disabled. Therapy designed to improve mobility in elderly patients is usually built around diagnosing and treating specific impairments, such as reduced strength or poor balance. Many caregivers focus on leg strength and balance. New research suggests that limb velocity and core strength may also be important factors in enhancing mobility. Another major cause of elderly falls is hyponatremia, an electrolyte disturbance when the level of sodium in a person’s serum drops below 135 mEq/L. Hyponatremia may be from physiological changes associated with aging such as decreases in glomerular filtration rate, a tendency for defective sodium conservation, and increased vasopressin activity.

What is the difference between Carefirst’s Long Term Care (LTC) package and Elder Care services?

As customers of a package like Long Term Care (LTC), you will get 2 distinct advantages. These are (1) Cost benefit of service bundling and (2) comprehensiveness of a pre-designed package removing the hassle to choose individual components like nursing, medical equipment, doctor consultation and physiotherapy.

However all our customers have access to our complete service suite at all times. Carefirst’s commitment of compassionate and effective care in the comfort of your home leading to a comprehensive recovery and quality of life for your loved ones is available to every patient we serve, irrespective of the service they choose.

For more information on Carefirst Long Term Care (LTC), please visit our packages page here.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elderly_care

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