A not so novel senior home health care company is about to celebrate their fifteenth anniversary doing business with seniors and their families, improving their lives immensely. They assist the elderly and help them do more for themselves.
Most families are drawn into elder care and it is a total shock to them. Due to a family emergency or unwelcome health determination, many families are introduced to a different level of care and commitment for a loved one when they aren’t prepared for it. Family members usually are only able to react to circumstances surrounding senior care. Caregivers themselves mainly do no more than obvious needs as they present to them and not much more.
When the company Youthful Aging was started fifteen years back it had every intention of tossing out old methods of senior care and beginning anew. Founder, Nicci Kobritz RN., was a longtime health care professional who wanted to start a care program based on longevity for her clients that would lead to healthier and independent patients, more so than even they expected.
Kobritz spent the better part of four years investigating ways to treat her clientele so longevity and positive health results was a top priority. Her learning curve took her to see some of the nation’s top gerontologists and research personnel. She made a point of speaking with some of Florida’s most forward thinking health practitioners and began formulating a five point action plan for each client. Now, Youthful Aging’s program utilizes regular medical therapies along with up to date longevity and health augmentation practices.
Day to day experience has taught her that even the most feeble of senior patients can attain a better quality of day to day existence. While evaluating many new approaches to senior care and therapies specific to her clients, Kobritz has been able to separate myths from facts about growing older. She has discovered the following:
• Seniors can improve their driving skills, even when in their eighties and nineties.
• The importance of mobility does not wane because a patient is bedridden and even undemanding exercises can be effective.
• Patients suffering dementia can still assist themselves while remaining in their homes longer, provided they are given mental acuity and physical treatments designed specifically with this goal in mind.
• When working with Alzheimer’s and dementia patients they can reestablish links to former identities and hobbies, even professions when combined with art therapy.
• When trying to establish the cause of memory loss in patients should start with a look through their personal medical cupboard. Many common prescriptions handed out to seniors are known to cause a brain fog.
• Seniors can be afflicted with depression and it is a common reason for a lack of motivation for exercise or participation in programs meant to stimulate their minds. Depression amongst the elderly is a huge and primary challenge faced by caregivers.
Senior care has required a new approach as anyone with aging parents can attest to. When searching for senior care it is imperative that the process be vetted based on independent living, activities and mental stimulation.
Wed, Oct 28, 2009
Anti Aging