How to provide decent care for the elderly? Conditions, professional help, benefits

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

It is very important to provide proper care for the elderly. This requires an integrated approach that will include all the necessary aspects. It is difficult for an elderly person to cope with household chores due to their age. There should be someone nearby who will help manage the household, brighten up loneliness, and provide qualified medical assistance if necessary.

Comprehensive home care for the elderly

Caring for the elderly requires a lot of dedication. Sometimes such people are absolutely helpless, and they need double care. We must be ready at any time of the day to provide the necessary assistance. In addition to standard housework and cooking, moral support is important - older people feel more lonely, they often want to talk. It is necessary to help with personal hygiene, as well as monitor the regime (walking in the fresh air, proper nutrition, adequate sleep).

Probably, there are no such people on earth who would not have a single disease in old age. Therefore, it is necessary to take care of the he alth of a loved one, go to the doctor together, control the intake of medicines prescribed by a specialist.

An elderly person should not feel like a burden for relatives - you should not single him out as a separate unit. He should participate in family affairs (you can share news, ask for advice), provide all possible assistance (for example, check how the grandchildren did their homework).

When you need professional help caring for an elderly person

For certain reasons, a loved one cannot always provide proper care for elderly relatives. In order not to weaken mentally and physically, he must have assistants who can change him if necessary. Thus, the quality of care will not suffer.

Assistants can be both other relatives and professionals in this field - nurses of the patronage service.

How to choose the right babysitter:

1. Older people often change their mood, they can become irritable, capricious, fastidious. We need a patient, decent person who has a well-developed sense of tact. Smiling, friendly, respecting old age.
2. An applicant for the role of a nurse must take into account all the wishes of the client, fulfill the permissible requirements. It is desirable to have experience working with the elderly, medical education and positiverecommendations.
3. A person should be able to delicately perform sanitary and hygienic procedures.

What is usually included in the duties of a home visitor nurse:

• household services (cleaning, laundry);
• cooking;
• doing doctor's orders;
• psychological help;
• organization of leisure activities (sleep, walk).

Care for the Disabled

Caring for the elderly with disabilities, especially bedridden patients, requires increased, sometimes every minute supervision. The person who is nearby must understand what assistance should be provided in a given situation, a clear algorithm of actions is needed.

Requires extensive knowledge in medicine and certain techniques (for example, in the fight against pressure sores). For some diseases, a special set of exercises and massage is needed. You need to be able to make a menu, grind food, change clothes in a timely manner, change bed linen - be ready to solve any problems that may arise in the process of caring for an elderly disabled person.

If it is not possible to take care of a bedridden patient on your own or hire a nurse, you can assign a loved one to a nursing home, where he will be provided with proper care. Be sure to visit, be aware of ongoing therapy in order to control the situation.

Care allowance for the elderly over 80

An able-bodied person who does not work, does not receive a pension, andalso unemployment benefits if:

• his ward is disabled and/or over 80;
• he provided the necessary documents, including the consent of the elderly person to care for him and the conclusion of the medical institution that there is a need for constant supervision.

Excluding regional coefficients, since 2008 the amount of compensation is 1200 rubles.

The law cannot oblige a person to give love and care to their elderly parents - it must come from the heart. Work, business, problems - sometimes there is neither the strength nor the time to take care of yourself and be with your family: your soulmate, children. But do we have the moral right to forget about those who gave birth to us, raised us. About those who devoted their whole lives to us, forgetting about sleep and rest. Protected, helped step by step to cope with all the difficulties, our relatives, the dearest - mom and dad. When we fell and broke our knees, my mother was just as hurt, her soul was torn for each of our grief in life. Experiences wear out the heart. So can a mother, fragile and defenseless, as we were many years ago, withstand the biggest pain - the indifference of her children?

There may be different circumstances in life, but in any case, a person must provide decent care for elderly parents. It is important to give your love and attention to loved ones before it is too late. You can always find time to call your elderly parents, as well as other relatives, and say kind words.