Home Health Care: If your elderly family member takes more than a couple of medications, it’s easy to understand how that can get overwhelming.
That situation becomes even more overwhelming if she needs to add more medications to the list at any point. Finding a way to manage her medication, especially if she’s experiencing other health challenges, can be the key to helping her to stay as healthy as possible. A home health care provider can be a huge help with this.
Putting Together a Plan for Medication Management
So often it can feel as if your senior doesn’t really have a plan with her medications. Her doctor may have given her some instructions to follow, but without following through on her side of that plan she may find she’s less compliant with her medications than she needs to be. Home health care providers can work with your senior’s doctor to ensure that there is a plan for her medication and that it works for her needs.
Helping Your Senior to Take Medications Properly
The next step for your senior is actually taking the medications properly. Your senior may not realize that some of her medications need to be taken on a strict schedule or that they need to be taken either with food or on an empty stomach. All of those variables matter. With skilled nursing care at home, your senior has someone there to ensure she’s taking her medications the right way.
Watching for Side Effects and Interactions Between Medications
It’s also important, especially with new medications, that your senior isn’t experiencing troubling side effects or interactions with other medications that she takes. Skilled nursing care at home gives your senior someone who is aware of what to watch out for and who can track those symptoms. They can then communicate those issues to your senior’s doctor.
Making Medications Easier Overall for Your Senior
Medications can feel like something your senior just doesn’t even want to deal with, but she doesn’t really have a choice in most situations. Home health care providers can make all of that easier by doing things like refilling pill containers to help reduce the mental load on your senior. Also, just knowing that there’s someone there to help can relieve a lot of anxiety for your senior and for you.
Working with experienced nurses in her own home allows your senior to receive the care that she needs while also ensuring that she’s as relaxed and as comfortable as possible.
If you or an aging loved one is considering Home Health Care in Shelby Township, MI, please contact the caring staff at New Century Home Health Care today. (248) 398-9600
Home Health Care is tailored to assist the individual and family to achieve the optimal level of health, prevent hospitalization and provide care and support for the family. Services are delivered on an intermittent basis according to a plan of treatment established by the patient/family, patient’s physician and the home health professionals.
Our services range from skilled nursing care and rehabilitation, to personal care and living assistance services. Our goal is to provide a variety of professional skilled and non-skilled services that will enable our clients to receive the care they need right in their homes.
We would like to take the opportunity to show you our company’s commitment to not just meet, but also exceed home health care delivery standards. New Century Home Health Care, Inc.’s mission is to build a positive, trusting relationship with you.
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