Sometimes seniors need help with medical situations, but they want to stay at home rather than go to a hospital or other medical facility. For many aging adults, spending too much time in a hospital or rehab facility might feel as if they’re giving up and no longer able to remain at home. In cases where it’s possible, skilled nursing care can be a perfect solution to that problem. Skilled nurses are able to help aging adults manage their medical needs while continuing to age in place for as long as they can.
Personalized Care Plans
Skilled nurses are able to offer seniors a personalized care plan. There aren’t other patients waiting for their turn, so it’s a lot easier for nurses to be able to devote all of their time and attention to ensuring that their patient’s needs are met as fully as possible. Nurses work directly with doctors and other medical professionals to ensure that the care plan addresses all of the patient’s needs as much as possible.
Medical Experience at Home
Seniors with complicated medical needs that need ongoing attention have access to skilled nurses with the medical expertise that their patients require. This reduces hospital visits as well, ensuring that patients are able to remain comfortable at home and still get the care that they need. This helps to improve healing, as well.
Fall Prevention and Safety
Falls are always a serious concern for aging adults, and having skilled nurses right there with them ensures that seniors have expert assistance creating a fall prevention plan. Nurses can assess the environment for hazards and recommend strategies to reduce and prevent falls and other accidents. This offers a proactive approach to safety that seniors need while recovering.
Emotional and Social Well-being
It’s difficult enough to recover from illnesses and injuries, but sometimes there is a degree of isolation involved in recovery. Having nurses there with them helps seniors to get the social engagement and interaction that they need while healing. They build rapport with their medical providers, which also helps with cognitive health and reduces loneliness.
Monitoring and Communication
Keeping tabs on how well seniors are healing is all part of the process, too. Health conditions can change rapidly, especially when seniors are facing more than one issue at a time. Skilled nursing care is able to provide regular monitoring of those changing health issues. Nurses are also able to communicate with all of the medical professionals involved to ensure that everyone stays on the same page.
Skilled nursing care is an excellent way for seniors to remain at home, even while they deal with difficult medical issues. The attention that aging adults can receive from nurses while they recover at home enables them to feel more in control of their health and their life, even when they may be dealing with extremely complicated medical conditions. Maintaining both dignity and autonomy are very important to many seniors, so it’s important that they have the ability to make choices that allow them to have the assistance they need and still honor their own wants.
If you or an aging loved one are considering Skilled Nursing in Dallas, TX, please contact the caring staff at Arcy Healthcare today. Call (469) 293-1515
Providing In-Home Healthcare Services in Dallas, Plano, Lewisville, Gainesville, Frisco, Flower Mound, Denton, Dallas, Coppell, Carrollton, McKinney and surrounding areas.
My name is Jimmie Stapleton. I am the founder and CEO of Arcy Healthcare. Arcy Healthcare includes Arcy Hospice, Arcy Supportive Care, MaximaCare Home Health and Arcy at Home.
Arcy Hospice was opened in 2007 to provide care and support for individuals and families facing a life limiting illness. It was established after my wife Ellen, who had been diagnosed with breast cancer, had completed her chemo and radiation therapies. At that time, things were looking positive, and we wanted to do something for our community that had been so supportive of our family during her treatments. Unfortunately, the cancer returned a few years later, and she subsequently passed away under our care in 2010.
In the years that followed, I began to see the need to provide the same level of excellent care to patients across the continuum of care. Therefore, we have added a home health division (MaximaCare Home Health), a palliative care division (Arcy Supportive Care), and a home care division, (Arcy at Home). With the addition of these divisions, we can meet most of the post-acute care needs for you and your family in your home.
I started Arcy Hospice with my wife as my motivation to provide exceptional care and support in the patient’s home, where they are surrounded by family and where they feel most comfortable. I’m proud to say that our staff provides some of the best in home care in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.
Please let us know if we can enrich the quality of life for you or a loved one.
Sincerely,
Jimmie Stapleton – Founder and CEO
Arcy Healthcare
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