Senior Health: It’s difficult when your senior is in pain and you’re not sure what to do to help her. The good news is that there are options that can help, like bringing in-home health care providers.

Senior Health: Evaluating Pain Levels and Current Management Techniques

Understanding what types of pain your senior is experiencing and the severity of the pain helps home health care providers to be able to offer the right assistance. One way to do that is through a variety of pain scales. These help to quantify the pain your senior is experiencing, so that the right solution can be offered to her.

Senior Health: Repositioning for Comfort

If your elderly family member is bedridden or recovering from surgery, proper positioning can make a big difference. Home health care providers can help her to find the right positions and they can remind her to shift position more often to avoid pressure sores. They also have a variety of ideas and tips for using cushions and blankets to pad your senior’s body and help her to stay in more comfortable positions.

Senior Health: Helping Set up Physical Therapy

Physical therapy can be incredibly helpful in relieving pain, but it might not be the first thing your senior thinks about trying. Home health care services can assist your senior with physical therapy. This can be an easy way for your senior to test out moving more, too.

Senior Health: Handling Wound Care

Treating wounds at home can feel a lot more complicated than it really is. Of course, larger wounds or wounds in awkward places can be difficult to manage. With the help of home health care providers, though, your senior and you can feel confident that her wound is being cared for properly and that any signs of trouble are going to be spotted right away.

Senior Health: Assisting with ADLs

Activities of daily living, or ADLs, can be impossible for your senior to handle on her own if she’s recovering from an illness or an injury. ADLs include activities like bathing, getting dressed, and eating meals. While your elderly family member is recovering, she may have a lot more difficulty with these tasks than she usually does, and home health care providers can help.

Managing your senior’s health and pain involves keeping track of a wide range of variables. It’s difficult to do that on your own, and your senior’s doctor only has a limited amount of time with her during each visit. Home health care providers bridge that gap.

If you or an aging loved-one are considering hiring  Home Health Care in Los Gatos, CA, contact the friendly staff at Home Care Professionals today.
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Andy Howardis a Bay Area Native who holds a BA in Political Science (University of Colorado at Boulder, ’97). After college Andy worked in the surging tech industry.His Grandmother however, would suffer a significant decline in health and ultimately needed in-home care. The experience of a loved one depending on outside help to age in place proved to be pivotal for Andy as he left the tech industry in 2002 for an opportunity in the home care world with a large provider. After having success in home care, but being frustrated by corporate constraints Andy founded HomeCare Professionals in 2005.He methodically built the company one client at a time by focusing on hiring quality caregivers to ensure positive outcomes. Currently Andy serves as the CEO of HomeCare Professionals and is also highly active in the non-profit organization California Association of Health Services at Home (CAHSAH) which advocates for a higher standard of in-home care for those who wish to remain living at home in California.

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