Choosing the perfect care home

Old man and carer

BBC News have published an article online today advising people on ‘how to choose the perfect care home‘. We liked the article because it included a checklist from Age UK on what to ask potential residential or nursing homes before you or your family member moves in.

The list is useful for providers though, too. Very often we focus on complex issues and forget the basics. This checklist is great for bringing us back down to earth, and ensuring we have the fundamentals of care right:

  • Can residents choose their daily routines?
  • Are senior staff on duty at all times?
  • What is the ratio of staff to residents?
  • What is the annual turnover of staff?
  • What dementia support is available?
  • Do GPs visit the home?
  • What is included in the fees?
  • What meals are provided?

Caring for an elderly person is not an easy task. It is exhausting and takes up a lot of time, which we often lack. That is why professional services for the elderly at home come to the rescue of people in such situations and help them in coping with such a task as care of the elderly in their own homes or care institutions which are proposed for taking care of senior people and serving them in all kinds of ways required by them.

In home care services include housekeeping duties – like sweeping the floor of any room where residents rest and keeping the premises clean and well-organized; providing hygienic conditions related to everyday routine cleaning and use of purificators and the wardrobe in which the patient stores his/her clothing and other things).

Entertainment activities which allow their participants to forget about their disability at least for a while and spend some quality time which can alleviate the symptoms of such illness and help in the process of aging slower and finally allow elders to spend more time with their children and their grandchildren etc.

Senior citizens and disabled people lose their autonomy most especially when they are in their last years of life due to various reasons: for example having illnesses which require the use of life support equipment which takes too much physical strength from the patients and thus makes them unable to care for themselves independently for a long time (like heart problems severe dementia etc… In order to spend more time with their relatives in this hard period of their lives elderly people and their children have to hire people who take care of elderly at home and provide them with the necessary assistance in a daily basis.

 

If you’d like to get more information about different senior caring options, be sure to visit websites like carltonseniorliving.com/life-at-carlton/

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