Elderly Home Care Benefits from Healthy at Home Program
Seniors value health and independence, and when disease or injuries limit their activities or ability to live independently, many elder adults prefer to receive elderly home care over having to stay in the hospital or short term nursing facilities. In particular, some aging patients are recovering from hospital stays after surgeries or illness and only require temporary home health care during recovery.
That’s where New England Home Health Care Healthy at Home program can assist with the hospital discharge period whereby patients need extra care during the first 14 days after returning home. Healthy at Home patients are able to stay within the comfort of their home after being in the hospital and have caregivers assist with the critical transition period of 14 days where they must strictly adhere to regimens prescribed by their doctors
This highly effective approach for elderly home care aids in keeping seniors at home without repeated visits back to the hospital. In fact, people with heart failure that participated in our Healthy at Home program avoided being readmitted to the hospital by 25 percent per year and 50 percent in the first 30 days after discharge.
Transitional elderly home care can truly make the difference in getting elder adults back to performing their activities on their own and living independent lifestyles. The Healthy at Home approach uses a team effort of professionals from multiple disciplines that all contribute to assessing patient’s care and monitoring them in the home so as to ascertain whether they are improving according to plan. The Healthy at Home team also liaisons with doctors and community organizations to ensure that the patient is attending appointments and using community resource referrals as needed.
By choosing home care nursing, elder adults can receive either personal care or health/medical care services. Home nursing CT providers that offer personal care services utilize certified nurse assistants (CNA) that provide assistance with activities of daily living such as cooking, cleaning, bathing, toileting and dressing.
Our elderly home care team consists of a team nurse leader, the personal physician, social workers and home health aide as well as physical, speech and occupational therapists if needed. For the 14 day period following hospital discharge, they focus on supporting and caring for the patient. After that time, patients may choose to continue using elderly home care services on a part or full time basis in order to receive personal, health or medical care as needed.
With our Healthy at Home method, we have saved countless patients from needing to go back to the hospital, and with our supportive health care professionals available to seniors, their recovery is much easier and quicker overall.
New England Home Care offer a team effort with other home health caregivers so that the whole person receives the care that is needed to keep them comfortable and safe at home.Click here to visit the original source of this post.