Your senior might need recovery time due to an injury or surgery, and if that’s the case, it’s helpful to know about all the ways that she can get help with her recovery. 24-hour home care can ensure that your senior has the help she needs no matter what time it is. You never know when your senior will need help the most.
Understanding What Her Discharge Instructions Mean
Discharge instructions are crucial and yet it’s so easy to misunderstand them or to forget the tiniest details. And if you can’t be there with your elderly family member as she’s recovering, there is so much about those instructions that she may not be able to handle herself. It’s vital to have someone else there with your elderly family member who can pay attention to each of those details in her discharge instructions. 24-hour home care providers help to remove doubts about missing important details.
Watching for Signs of Trouble
It’s also important that your elderly family member has help watching for signs of bigger trouble. Your elderly family member might not recognize when she’s developing a fever or when there are issues with a wound site, for instance. Home care providers are able to spot these issues quickly and make sure that your elderly family member gets the help that she needs as soon as possible. That can help to avoid much bigger problems down the line.
Addressing Transportation Concerns, Especially for Follow-up Appointments
Follow-up appointments are something that your senior cannot afford to miss out on. Unfortunately, driving might not be on the table for her, especially if she’s taking medications that make driving a bad idea. 24-hour home care providers can make sure that your elderly family member safely gets where she needs to be, when she needs to be there. Checking in with her medical providers helps to ensure that your elderly family member is healing as well as expected and that she’s got fast help if she isn’t healing well for any reason.
Dealing with Practical, Hands-on Concerns
24-hour home care providers are also there for hands-on help of all sorts. Whether your elderly family member primarily needs companionship, meal preparation assistance, or she needs assistance with transferring and other tasks, it’s a huge relief for you to know that there is someone there with your senior at all times. And as your elderly family member continues to heal, she may find that she still occasionally needs additional assistance. Home care providers can continue to be there for her as long as your senior needs that little bit of extra help.
Healing takes time and energy, both on your senior’s part and on the part of people who are there to make sure that she is safe and that she has what she needs. Having other people there who can make sure that your elderly family member is covered can help you to feel better because everything is under control.
If you or an aging loved one is considering 24-hour home care in Littleton, CO, please contact the caring staff at SYNERGY Home Care of Parker. 303-953-9924
