Palliative care.
What is palliative care?
It is specialized care for people with serious or terminal illness. The support focuses on providing relief from the symptoms, pain and stress of a serious health condition. The goal is to improve the quality of life for both the Client and the family.
While some people receive palliative support within a hospice or old people’s home, palliative care at home is becoming a popular choice for many individuals who want to stay in an environment where they feel most comfortable. It is often referred to as hospice at home.
Concept of trajectories at the end of life: physical and other dimensions.
- Quality palliative care must have the following components.
- Timely.
- Good communication.
- Pain control.
- Planning for the future.
- Ensuring confidentiality and privacy.
- Emotional and spiritual support.
- It is important that the Client should know the diagnosis, likely disease trajectory and the assistance they can get from their teams. This enables the Client and family to make crucial decisions regarding the type and level of care that they wish to receive.
- Palliative care teams usually hold family conferences for shared decision making and having clear goals of any care being provided.
- Individualistic pain assessment and treatment is offered in a multidisciplinary approach.
- Options available are key to effective and efficient pain management.
How quickly can palliative care service be arranged?
- We can scrammble and arrange for an emergency palliative nurse for pain management for a variety of emergency circumstances as we begin arranging for homecare nurse within 48 hours of you getting in touch with us.
( Please note that scrambling an emergency nurse will cost you. ) - Individualistic pain assessment and treatment is offered in a multidisciplinary approach.
- If you or your family member are currently in hospital or an old people’s home, our Nurse Manager(s) will contact your care manager to arrange for the necessary medical support through a palliative care plan that will ease your move back to the home that you know best.
- Care is provided primarily in shifts, up to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- Palliative care can entail skilled nursing live-in.
Old Age.
Old Age is not an illness. It is the later part of normal life. It is an age for persons nearing and surpassing their life expectancy. It is usually categorised as those people whose age is 65 years of age or above.
Old people are normally referred to as elderly, elders or seniors. Key facts from World Health Organization notes that "The pace of world population ageing is much faster than in the past."
Old Age
- Characteristics of Old Age can be presented as shown below.
- Loneliness.
- Hearing loss.
- Cataracts and refractive errors.
- Back and neck pain.
- Osteoarthritis.
- Chronic diseases.
- Dementia and Alhzeimers are chronic diseases that usually affect elderly people. It is a syndrome that sets in over time by destroying the nerve cells and damages the brain. This causes memory loss and poor cognition ability.
- Dementia is a leading cause of death for older people. It will become a social health care burden as ageing population increases.
DEMENTIA CARE.
Familiarity and a friendly face, for those living with dementia.
That is why more families than ever are turning to a dedicated home care service so their family member can stay in the place they know and love.
The main aim of the Dementia care package is to allow individuals to live a fulfilling independent life at home.
Live-in Care
- A live-in care giver is a fully trained individual with basic nursing skills who lives with you in your own home or allowing your family member to stay living at home as opposed to staying in hospital with a bespoke level of one-to-one support.
- Whether it’s helping with personal care, keeping on top of the chores or moving around the house, many of our care givers become a rock to Service Users’ emotionally and physically thus enabling them to live the way they want every day.
Acquired Brain Injury Support.
Acquired brain injury (ABI) is brain damage caused by events after birth.
- It is a severe and lifelong disabling condition that significantly impairs a person's ability to function in society.
- An acquired brain injury, or ABI, is damage to the brain that was not present at birth and is non-progressive.
- Every brain injury is different, but survivors may experience cognitive, emotional, and physical long term disabilities.
Brain Injuries.
- Causes of Brain Injuries include:
- Road accidents.
- Falls or blows to the head.
- Cancer tumor.
- Stroke.
- Alcohol and drug use, or oxygen deprivation.
- What are the major types of head injuries?
- Hematoma.
- - This is collection or clotting of blood outside the blood vessels.
- Hemorrhage.
- - This is uncontrolled bleeding.
- Concussion.
- - This occurs when the impact on the head is severe enough to cause brain injury.
- Edema.
- Skull fracture.
- Diffuse axonal injury.
How can you tell if someone has brain damage?
Change in vision, hearing, or sense of touch.
Spatial disorientation.
Disorders of smell and taste.
Balance issues.
Inability to sense time.
Heightened sensitivity to pain.
Neurological Care.
Neurological care is specialist care and support given to people with a condition that affects their brain or nervous system.
Neurological care can include long-term hospital care, community based care, homecare, respite and rehabilitation services depending on the person’s needs and choices.
Overview.
What is a neurological condition?
- It affects someone’s brain or nervous system.
- It can affect movement, communication, behavior and mental health.
- Anyone can get a neurological condition at any time.
- Some conditions like cerebral palsy are present from birth.
- Others such as multiple sclerosis, motor neurone disease and Parkinson's disease, can develop at any stage in life.
- Some others can be caused by injury, like a head injury, stroke and illnesses such as brain and spine tumors.
- Many neurological conditions are life-changing because they cause long-term disability and can severely affect a person’s ability to live independently.
- Some conditions improve over time with the right care and rehabilitation while others may get worse until the person dies.
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