What's Better for an Elderly Parent-A Nursing Home or Home Nurse

| Friday, October 21, 2011
By Billy Edward


As parents age they generally develop a wide selection of ailments that slow them down and make daily living challenging. As they continue to age and their physical ailments worsen, their children discover that they are taking on an ever increasing share of the responsibility of caring for their elderly parent. At some point many of these children realize that at some point their parent's health has deteriorated to a point that the child can no longer take care of the parent. At least not on their own. When this happen the child has to decide if their elderly parent would better off in a nursing home or if moving a nurse into the home would be a better option.

Nursing homes are great because they offer twenty-four hour round the clock care. The majority of nursing homes hire qualified and caring people. Your parent will receive 3 well balanced meals, receive their medications in a timely manner, and have the benefit of a social life. The downside to nursing homes is that it's occasionally hard to visit your elderly parent. It is also challenging to decide if moving your elderly parent from their familiar surroundings and into an unfamiliar nursing home will cause their parents condition to worsen at a more fast rate.

A home nurse is a nurse who is trained to come into a patients home and care for them. They are in charge of making sure that the patient continues with their physical therapy and takes all their medicines.

Some home nurses come into the home for just a couple of hours a day to check their patients overall health and to help them take their medication. These nurses are typically paid per hour rate and generally do not transfer to the home.

Some people seek the services of a home nurse to help patients rehabilitate after surgery. These nurses come into a home and check that the patient is proceeding with their physical therapy, that they're eating, that their spirits are high, and that they are taking their medications and pain relievers, and to answer any queries that the patient might have. This kind of home nurse might be at a patients homes 7 days a week or as seldom as once a week. This type of home nurse is typically hired by a hospital or medical facility. The facility pays the nurse and then bills the patient or the patients insurance company.

In some case doctors recommend that their patients recommend that a patient needs twenty-four hour, round the clock care. During these instances, a home nurse normally transfer to the patients house. The home nurse typically sleeps in the patients spare bed room. They help arrange physician's appointments, make sure the patient is following a strict diet, they see that the patient is taking all their medications, and make sure that the patient doesn't seem to turning out to be depressed over their condition.

It's not unusual for a home nurse who moves into a patients house and become a highly valued member of the family.






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