Elderly care

I had the pleasure of volunteering at Delicate Touch Personal Care, LLC. Delicate Touch Personal Care, LLC is located at 140 W. Washington Street, Suite 109, Suffolk, Virginia. The mission of Delicate Touch Personal Care, LLC is to provide superior, compassionate home health care services while maximizing outcomes and utilizing cost-effective recourses that will promote community and family involvement. Delicate Touch Personal Care, LLC is dedicated on enabling their clients to live with dignity…

When Home Health Care Is Needed For An Elderly Loved One: 10 Ways To Know It 's one thing to have an injury that requires the assistance of a home health care agency, where the need is obvious, yet quite another to determine if an elderly person in your life is facing the kind of challenges that call for outside intervention. Many health care agencies tend to temporary situations, such as car accident victims and those recovering from surgery, until the patient can resume a normal, independent…

Islamic Elderly and Western Care Practises: Are we Ready for a change? Almost every religion and culture has a unique perspective on ageing and that perspective guides the care that the elderly receive from their prospective culture. However, as we as a society are becoming increasingly multicultural, there needs to be some understanding as to how western society can do a better job in creating a comforting environment for our aging based on the religious and cultural backgrounds of our…

As the elderly population keeps growing there is no doubt that they will face financial, health and social issues. One issue that many elderly people are facing is the high cost of medications. Generally speaking, medications are expensive. However, the high cost of medications tends to have an effect to the elderly population more because as one gets older they are more exposed to experience a chronic illness and are more likely to consume multiple medications a day (Cavanaugh &…

wellbeing and may reduce the risk of illness. Hospitals can provide the elderly with medications and thus will result into a lower chance of the aged becoming ill. However not all elderly people have immediate access to services as some elderly people living in the rural/remote areas will have less access to resource due to the fact that there are less services in that area and take a longer duration to get…

opening up about this feeling to health care providers. The purpose of this paper is to discuss constipation concerns within older adults and how nurses can promote healthy bowel movements in the elderly. Constipation is referred to as a gastrointestinal disorder followed by a set of symptoms. According to Day (2014), symptoms include hard stool, infrequent defecation leading to discomfort, and difficulty in…

The Senior Care industry is a unique industry that allows for great opportunity. Once you’re in, then it is possible to transition throughout the industry easily. As long as this main principle is understood then everything else about the industry is easier to understand. The purpose of this industry is to care for the elderly as they go through their final stages of life. The different types of agencies within the industry (hospice, nursing home, home care, personal care home etc.) cater to…

assistant (CNA) for elderly comes with many challenges, and I didn’t discover this until after did my clinical at a nursing home. There, I observed many opportunities for learning and growth in long-term care. With the permission of my instructor, I explored around and had a little time to communicate with the senior citizens. I continued to make observations and found that communicating with the elderly presents difficulties that impact the CNA’s ability to implement routine care.…

When it comes to long-term care for the elderly there are two types’ custodial care and skilled care. Custodial care is a care for the elderly that is a non-medical care facility, which provides help with daily activities such as bathing and dressing (LTC Staff, 2012). In some circumstance the custodial care will provide assistance in cooking and household upkeep (LTC Staff, 2012). In contrast, skilled care for elderly is within a medical facility that can only be provided by or under the…

The topic that I am interested in is Data Mining. This is interesting to me because it can help in various areas of society. This includes the medical field, elderly care, and commerce. This is controversial because of the amount and type of personal data that is being collected. We are living in the “Big Data” era where there are many ways to collect data. It could be from your watch, phone, light bulbs or your car. Even your television collects data. I will explain and define the usage of…