Post-Surgery Help Tips
Post-surgery help is even more important for your elderly loved one to stick with healthy lifestyle habits and activities. In addition, it is important to ensure that all senior citizens who are going to have surgery, get the care they need when they go home from the hospital. One of the ways that family caregivers can ensure this happens for their elderly loved ones is to get home health care services. These services are designed to improve or maintain the health of the elderly.
Making Arrangements Post-Surgery
One of the tips for helping senior citizens after their surgery is to make arrangements for them. For example, who is going to pick your elderly loved one up from the hospital? Who is going to drive them home and stay with them for a minimum of 24 hours after they get home? Who
Is going to help out with household tasks, medical care, and medication reminders? Who will be the one driving your elderly loved one to their follow-up appointments? All these arrangements should be made before your elderly loved one has surgery. However, if they are already at the hospital in recovery, you can still make the arrangements to ensure they are getting the care they need when they go home.
Proper Support
One of the most important things to remember before your elderly loved one has surgery is that they are going to need support in their recovery. There are many senior citizens who get knee, hip, or shoulder surgery. They immediately need to go to physical therapy after their surgery. Then, they will continue to have those appointments for weeks or even months after the surgery. Physical therapy sessions can take a real toll on senior citizens. For this reason alone, it is crucial that your elderly loved one has the support they need during recovery. They need to know that you, home health care providers, neighbors, other family members, and/or friends are there to help out.
Preventing Infections
Another tip to help senior citizens post-surgery is to prevent infections as best as you can. There are many senior citizens who end up back in the hospital due to getting an infection in their incisions after surgery. The best way to prevent infections is to keep the incision site clean, dry, and healthy. If your elderly loved one’s doctor gave them any medication ointment to put on the incision site or instructed your loved one to change the gauze every so often, remind them to do this or hire home health care providers to help with these things.
Conclusion
Is your elderly loved one going to have surgery? Maybe, they are already in the hospital getting ready for surgery or in the recovery room. Either way, the tips above can help to ensure that your elderly loved one is safer and healthier after they go home from surgery.
If you or an aging loved-one is considering Home Health Care in Roanoke, VA please contact the caring staff at Passion Home Health Solutions LLC today at. 703-462-9141
Sources
https://www.hhs.gov/aging/healthy-aging/index.html
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