Living Arrangement 1. Stay in home as long as possible 2. Move near family 3. Move in with family/friend’s 4. Move to Assisted Living facility/Nursing home 5. Move back to home town or country 6. Move to area with warmer climate Health & Emotional Care 1. Anger/Depression Management 2. Emotional help: Long healed family secrets, stress related to disease, End-of-Life issues 3. Medication management 4. Give medical care (injections, catheters, wound care, check blood pressure) 5. Communicating with medical and dental professionals 6. Buy First Aid/CPR & AED (Automated External Defibrillation) Coordinating Caregiving 1. Keep everyone informed 2. Coordinating caregiver schedules 3. Daily/weekly check-in with care team 4. Track financial matters …show more content…
Local community senior services offer exercise, and nutritional programs and sometimes technology classes. Grandchildren and other older adults can be a good source for teaching technology. Adapting technology will be on an individual bases. When you have doubts about a person’s willingness to adopt technology, start with an old cell phone and decide how well your loved one adopts to it before investing in an IPhone or computer tablet. If that goes well, move up to a smart phone or tablet with voice recognition which will reduce the need for typing. A simple solution might be a phone with large …show more content…
Getting a second opinion can be important to confirm the rate of a disease progression and discover potential treatment plans. Preparation is essential to coping with chronic disease or terminal illnesses. The internet has opened up new avenues to find support groups and investigate advances on specific diseases. Federal health agencies and research hospitals offer a variety of helpful materials on rare or emerging diseases. The local library is still a wonderful community resource. Keep the local Librarian in mind when seeking information of any kind. Libraries have free access to fee related databases and research material open only to public libraries. Public libraries have adopted the concept of the e_library (electronic library) and through it they offer: eBooks, eMusic, eAudiobooks, videos, and easy check-in and out services, and sometimes schedule one-on-one
I consider my care staff to be my patient care coordinators, treatment coordinators, and assistants. Doctor’s and Hygienists also need to be meet with to understand their philosophy and what I can do as a Manager to make there day run as smooth as possible. As a leader the staff needs to understand my philosophy, their expectations of other and what I would expect of them short and long term. Further 1:1 meetings in the following 30 days would be set up to further address after observation is completed.
As a student of East Texas Baptist University living in centennial residence hall is difficult. I having to ask people to use their kitchen just to make a simple thing like waffles. I even want at least peace and quiet without my roommates being loud with visitors. Living in centennial or any of the other dorms is not the same as being able to live on your own where you have time to yourself. After my freshman year I was trying to live off campus because these dorms are really expensive. At East Texas Baptist University you have to be 21 to live off campus unless living with a parent. I believe that since you are able to do other things at the age of 18 you should be able to live off campus on your own.
California currently faces the ominous blessing of the El Nino weather system, which promises to bring desperately needed rains in the form of storms and torrential rains. In preparation for these rains, California also has to address the homeless population, who will be stranded in the rains if adequate shelters are not provided for them. In his article, Sunnyvale: Fast-tracked Emergency Homeless Shelter Set To Open, Eric Kurhi cites expert opinions, utilizes emotional appeal, and employs rhetorical devices such as diction in order to provide information on the new homeless shelter opening in Sunnyvale while discussing the overall problem of homelessness.
In addition, there are guidelines to assist with assessing the quality of the family relationships, indicators of problems that would indicate poor quality of care, and methods to assess the caregiver’s physical and mental statues that could affect their ability to provide care.
3. Set reasonable priorities and know your limits. Caregivers have limited time and limited emotional and physical endurance. You cannot do it all-so set reachable expectations.
2. Carefully approach the subject with your loved one. My wife and I opted to make use of a home health care provider and had them come in and do some light housekeeping. They were actually there more to keep an eye on my parents, but we let my parents believe they were in our home simply to assist us with tasks we had fallen behind on. Doing so allowed us to ease them into the process, they got to know the provider and, when respite care was needed for a day, they felt comfortable having this person come stay with
Within the care sector it’s very important that colleagues pass information/changes to individual’s circumstances we are supporting. This could be done either between yourselves or in team meetings depending how important/urgent the information needs to be passed on/recorded. You can also support colleagues how to make new entries/changes to an individual’s care plan and the importance in doing this. Sharing information and contributing to individual’s records is a great way to improve the quality of care even exchanging views and making suggestions can make a difference to the care/support we give to the individual.
We tend to help the paramedics with lifting assistance if the patient is a larger person. We also go to CPR calls to help try to make the chances of survival higher. One of the worst parts of the medical portion is overdoses. An overdose can be with prescription drugs or usually heroin. We canister the patient with narcan to possibly bring them
also spend time working with the family to educate parents and other caregivers how to care
It is a lot of responsibility knowing another person’s life could potentially be placed in your hands. But, if you are good at what you do, and love what you do, the rewards outweigh the risks by far. There is no better feeling than sending someone home to their family, and it’s a blessing to be a part of that. It is far better to be overly prepared than none at all. You must see and treat every patient as you would want your most cherished loved one treated.
...rcise, social activity, and proper nutrition are important in keeping the patient healthy as well. Any steps toward producing a calm, safe, and well-structured environment may help the patient. Helping the patient and the family with the legal aspects, supporting the family through care giving, and assisting with decisions about long-term care placement are also crucial to help the patient.
In today's busy society where most homes are dual income families, finding time to take on a full time caregiver position is difficult. Not only will doctor's appointments, grocery shopping, medical bills and finances take up several hours a week, but also the one...
The purpose of this paper is to analyze, diagnose, and to determine a proper treatment plan to work toward the beneficial prognosis for the individual indicated within the case study.
First aid trained personnel and the first aid kit are the best tool to prevent further damage to the injured and make sure they are on the recovery path swiftly without any problems.
In today’s society, a majority of young couples are taking the opposite route when it comes to preparing for marriage. Instead of waiting till their newlyweds to move in together, many couples have decided to move in together. They believe that by living together, the divorce rate is decreased significantly. This idea of living together before marriage baffles a lot of people who are pro and against the idea. Yet, when you think about it for a moment, it does kind of make sense. Compared to previous generations, millennials would rather live together to decide whether marriage is in their future. There have been arguments for and against this idea of couples moving in together.