Info about Elderly
Elderly care in usa
Elderly people must be shown respect, and the best way in which we can do that is by taking good care of them. Some of them can take care by themselves, but they may need company because they are all alone, after his wife or husband passed away, and their kids have not enough time to visit them. Some other people are sick, and they need someone to remind them every day to take their medicines and go with them to regular checkups. It is important that a doctor is seeing regularly the people that are older because they tend to get sick more quickly, their health isn’t as good as the one of the young people. Also there are some elder people that lost their mobility, so they can’t procure themselves all that they need, like food for example, they can’t cook it and some of them need someone to feed them, like we feed babies. These persons need to be helped to go to the bathroom too, and also to clean themselves or take a bath.
So there are two types of care that can be provided to older people: medical care and also social care. In the United States of America it is known that not many people have the time and skills to take care of their old parents, so they are some multi-facility providers that can care of them, but of course, not for free, because they want to obtain a profit. But there are also some non profit organizations or companies, like the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, that take care of almost 7000 people. It is true that the most of the elder people don’t need any care and continues to live in their homes, but there are some that can’t take care of themselves.
So in the United States of America it was created a new concept, “respite care”. There are many caregivers (usually most of them are women), that work for companies that offer special care for elder people on their own home. Such 2 companies are “All Valley Home Care” and “Senior Helpers”. These companies offer to take care of the older people for a short (if the family needs to go somewhere) or long period of time. But they also five the family valuable advices, so they would know how to proper take care of their parents or grandparents.