In recent years, with the advancement of population aging, there will be more and more elderly people. Among the elderly population, disabled elderly people are the most vulnerable group in society. They face many difficulties in home care.
Although door-to-door services have developed significantly, relying solely on traditional manual services, and affected by factors such as insufficient nursing staff and rising labor costs, the difficulties faced by disabled elderly people in home care will not change significantly. We believe that in order to easily take care of disabled elderly people who care for themselves at home, we must establish a new concept of rehabilitation care and accelerate the promotion of appropriate rehabilitation care equipment.
Completely disabled elderly people spend their daily lives in bed. According to the survey, most of the disabled elderly people currently being cared for at home are lying in bed. Not only are the elderly unhappy, but they also lack basic dignity, and it is also difficult to care for them. The biggest problem is that it is difficult to ensure that the "Standards of Care" stipulate turning over every two hours (even if you are filial to your children, it is difficult to turn over normally at night, and the elderly who do not turn over on time are prone to bedsores)
We normal people basically spend three-quarters of the time standing or sitting, and only one-quarter of the time in bed. When standing or sitting, the pressure in the abdomen is greater than the pressure in the chest, causing the intestines to sag. When lying in bed, the intestines in the abdomen will inevitably flow back toward the chest cavity, reducing the volume of the chest cavity and increasing the pressure. Some data show that oxygen intake when lying in bed is 20% lower than when standing or sitting. And as oxygen intake decreases, its vitality will decrease.Based on this, if a disabled elderly person is bedridden for a long time, their physiological functions will inevitably be seriously affected.
To take good care of disabled elderly people who are bedridden for a long time, especially to prevent venous thrombosis and complications, we must first change the nursing concept. We must transform traditional simple nursing into a combination of rehabilitation and nursing, and closely combine long-term care and rehabilitation. Together, it is not just nursing, but rehabilitation nursing. To achieve rehabilitation care, it is necessary to strengthen rehabilitation exercises for disabled elderly people. Rehabilitation exercise for the disabled elderly is mainly passive "exercise", which requires the use of "sport-type" rehabilitation care equipment to allow the disabled elderly to "move".
To sum up, in order to take good care of the disabled elderly people who care for themselves at home, we must first establish a new concept of rehabilitation care. The elderly should not be allowed to lie on the bed facing the ceiling every day. Assistive devices with both rehabilitation and nursing functions should be used to allow the elderly to "exercise". "Get up and move out of bed frequently (even stand up and walk) to achieve an organic combination of rehabilitation and long-term care. Practice has proven that the use of the above-mentioned appliances can meet all the nursing needs of the disabled elderly with high quality, and at the same time, it can greatly reduce the difficulty of care and improve the efficiency of care, realizing that "it is no longer difficult to care for the disabled elderly", and more importantly, it can greatly improve The disabled elderly have a sense of gain, happiness and longevity.
Post time: Jan-24-2024
