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As time goes on, it sometimes becomes difficult to take care of our elderly people, especially those with health issues, infections, or illnesses. And taking care of their health and well-being is extremely important. Since there is a change in family structure (from joint family to nuclear family), the distance between the elderly and their children makes it challenging to take care of the elderly. Since both parents and children stay apart, it becomes difficult to assess their needs on time. It upholds rights so that you can approach to geriatric care for your elderly.
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Geriatric care and its importance As time goes on, it sometimes becomes difficult to take care of our elderly people, especially those with health issues, infections, or illnesses. And taking care of their health and well-being is extremely important. Since there is a change in family structure (from joint family to nuclear family), the distance between the elderly and their children makes it challenging to take care of the elderly. Since both parents and children stay apart, it becomes difficult to assess their needs on time. It upholds rights so that you can approach to geriatric care for your elderly. But what is geriatric care? As there are paediatricians for young children, the same applies to geriatrics. Geriatricians focus on taking care of the elderly. In short, they care for the elderly, which improves their health and well-being.They even maintain a host of information, right from diet supervision to an up-to-date list of medications, appointment schedules, and helping them to socialise. Some of the reasons why elderly people need geriatric care are: 1. Preventive care: The caretaker makes sure to provide the elderly with the most appropriate treatment to help them stay healthy, which includes therapies, vaccines, lifestyle changes, and dieting. 2. Disease management: As people age, they start to develop chronic diseases or may even have prolonged illnesses. The geriatricians help in treating and fine-tuning these with lifestyle modifications, therapies, and medications. 3. A support system: At times the elderly may also need to be dependent for their day to day activities right from brushing their teeth to getting dressed, cooking or getting groceries. These caretakers even scout them for elder care service. 4. Personalised care: Needs change from people to people and so is the care. The needs and wants of the elderly may change from person to person, and they may not need to be treated the same, their treatment may differ. 5. Care management: With proper communication, treatment, and medications, it is possible to coordinate and give proper and continuous attention to the elderly. This may sometimes help them get better. Appointing a geriatric caretaker is always a better solution. There are many service centres that provide this type of care, but IHHC is the leading and best geriatric caretaker service in Chennai. They provide continuous support to your elderly relatives, both mentally and physically, and they do so in their own comfortable home. These elderly home care services are provided by well-trained and registered nurses and are also overseen by the seniors. They provide 12–24 hours of medical and nursing support, regular nursing visits, physiotherapy, equipment, and consumables. IHHC even provides palliative care at home.
