Archive for the ‘Elderly Care’ Category

The Value of Home Care And Individuals With Advanced Cancer– The results of a German Study

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Researches from Germany conducted a study to evaluate the significance of home care patients suffering from advanced cancer. Results were published in Med Klin, 15;95(3): 136-42.

Analysis of the study was derived from interviews with relatives of patients with terminal cancer diseases. They had participated in the home care of 50 consecutively treated patients 2 years previously.

The value of home care was evaluated on the basis of the personal experience of those concerned. Data showed that the holistic concept of palliative home care could be implemented by a specialized team at a high quality level.

Under the favorable conditions of the familiar surroundings, an atmosphere of trust developed as a result of the cooperation with the family members, people close to the patients and with family doctors. It contributed to a relatively high quality of life and to alleviate the emotional stress. Most of those involved were able to accept the hand of fate. On this basis, the terminal phase could be satisfactorily arranged and preparations made for a good quality of death.  Read more...

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Make Your Life Easy With A Walk In Bathtub

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Those who have physical impediments may find bathing to be a frustrating and complicated process, especially when using traditional bath or shower designs. Unlike walk in bathtubs, which are created for bath safety and comfort, standard showers usually don’t have anti-slip features and grab bars, and they lack the comfortable seating that can be of great assistance to people with limited mobility.

Handicap accessible bathtubs are a comfortable and easy-to-install alternative to traditional showers and provide all the safety features usual set-ups miss. Every year, manufacturers introduce handicap bathtubs that include height-adjustable, easy-to-use faucets and shower heads as well as strategically located grab bars. In other words, walk in tubs are all about your comfort and safety.

For the ultimate accessibility, handicap showers usually feature a very low threshold or are even level with the floor. However, walk in tubs provide the option of either taking a shower or enjoying a nice soak in warm water without worrying about how you will get in and out of a traditional bath. Being able to take a bath is not merely a luxury – soaking is well known to be therapeutic and aids in easing bodily aches and pains. Walk-in models usually come with a shower head that can be either hand-held or wall mounted and can be adjusted to the perfect height for you.  Read more...

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Consider Residential Stair Lifts

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Residential stair lifts could be either in someone’s own home or in a residential residence for the aged possibly.

Ideally when you use one of this type of stair lifts in your house it allows you to remain in your own comfy private home for as long as viable.

Really it is comparatively cost efficient if you would like to consider at that aspect as well. It certainly costs a good amount less to have residential stair lifts fitted than it could cost for a nursing home.

Plus consider how much nicer it would be to have the ability to remain in the environment that you love.

It might be that you in reality live with one of your relations and they are thinking about of obtaining one of these stair lifts fitted for your ease and security.

Not only might it give you superior mobility it could relieve their mind as to your protection. When you had become accustomed to the operation of the lift they would believe that they could leave you to your own devices.  Read more...

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Why Walk-In Tubs Have Become More Well-Liked

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Many years ago, the elderly did not have as many options to help them live on their own instead of going to a nursing home. Now, there are a lot of advances that have made it easier for older Americans live in their own homes by themselves for longer. Advances have also helped the elder citizens stay active for more time. Older people no longer have to leave their homes to locate effective, low impact workouts. Examples of these advances include the walk in shower and walk tub both of which have become really popular with the older U.S. population. The following is a list of reasons that explains why these have grown so much in popularity:

1. The most common reason for injury amongst elderly individuals is falls whether it is because they trip over a pet or because they fall in the tub. However, most falls do happen in the shower and the bath. To make the home safer, people can put in special bathtubs that they can walk into without having problems with any kind of steep step. The tubs are even with the ground of the bathroom floor and usually they have a high door and a handle bar located on the sides of the bath for added safety. The reason for the high doors is so that if someone does slip, they can hopefully grip the door or the door will stop them from falling onto the painful bathroom floor as opposed to a regular shower where it is easy to fall over the normal tub step and onto the ground.  Read more...

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Listening to Your Parents even Now

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Have you ever had that aggravation that you go over to your aging parents apartment or house to help with the housework and get some serious “care giving” done and the senior himself seems to be bent on stopping your progress?  You no doubt came over with a list as long as your arm of things to do at the apartment to help your parent live a clean and healthier life by getting the place into shape.

You know that part of your job as caregiver is to take care of chores and do the things your aging parent cannot do any more or just doesn’t do because of fatigue or general lack of attention to detail.   So when your parent wants you to forget all that work and just sit and talk, what is aggravating to you may be very important to your parent, maybe even more important than the apartment getting cleaned up.

It’s good for you to think about your role as caregiver because you really are not just called to be a maid, chauffeur and cook.  Anybody could do those things.  The reason you are perfect for the care giving role is you are close to the heart of your aging parent and you are the one that will understand when she talks about things she is thinking or feeling that day.  Read more...

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