"Elderly care, or simply eldercare (also known in parts of the English-speaking world as aged care), serves the needs of old adults."
Elder care focuses on providing support and assistance to aging individuals to ensure their well-being, health, and overall quality of life.
Aging Process: Understanding how the human body changes as it ages including physical, cognitive, and emotional changes.
Healthcare Services: Identifying the different types of healthcare services available for the elderly including in-home care, adult day care, assisted living and nursing homes.
Medication Management: Understanding the importance of proper medication management and avoiding potential medical complications such as medication errors, adverse reactions, or contraindications.
Nutrition and Hydration: Learning how to prepare meals that are nutritious and meet the dietary needs of elders.
Safety: Understanding how to set up the environment to prevent falls, and other accidents that could cause injury.
Communication and Understanding: Being able to effectively communicate with elders and understanding their individual communication style.
End of Life Care: Understanding the specific needs of an elderly person who may be in the final stages of their life such as palliative care, hospice care, advanced directives, and bereavement.
Dementia Care: Understanding and caring for elderly persons with dementia linked to Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, or other illnesses.
Socialization: Understanding the importance of social activities in improving mental health and wellbeing.
Legal and Financial Issues: Understanding and managing the legal and financial aspects related to elder care, including healthcare decision-making powers, long-term care insurance, wills, trusts, and estate planning.
Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation: Understanding how to provide physical therapies and rehabilitation for elderly people suffering from injury or illness.
Activity Planning: Identifying activities that encourage active and healthy lifestyles for elderly persons, including physical and cognitive activities that provide a fun and engaging environment.
Mental Health Counseling: Understanding the unique mental health needs of elders, the different types of counseling, and therapies available to improve mental health.
Caregiver Wellness: Caring for elderly persons can be emotionally and physically challenging. Understanding ways to care for the caregiver and ensuring their emotional health, and well-being is essential.
Community Resources: Identifying additional community resources available to families who need support in providing care for elderly persons, including government programs, private organizations, and non-profit groups focused on elderly care.
In-home care: This involves hiring a caregiver to provide assistance with activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, meal preparation, and medication management in the elder's own home.
Assisted Living: This is a type of housing arrangement that provides basic services such as meals, housekeeping, personal care, and medication management. Assisted living facilities also offer social activities and may provide more advanced medical services.
Nursing homes: Also known as long-term care facilities, these are for people who require a higher level of medical care and supervision than what is available in assisted living facilities.
Respite care: This type of care provides temporary relief to caregivers who need a break from their caregiving responsibilities. Respite care can be provided in the elder's home, a nursing home or assisted living facility.
Adult day care: This provides seniors with a safe, social environment during the day while their caregivers go to work or attend to other responsibilities.
Memory care: This type of care is specifically designed for individuals with dementia or Alzheimer's disease. Memory care facilities provide specialized services to help manage memory problems and other associated symptoms.
Palliative care: This type of care focuses on relieving pain, and managing symptoms and stress associated with serious illness or chronic conditions.
Hospice care: This provides comfort and support for individuals who are in the last stages of their lives. Hospice care providers offer medical, emotional, and spiritual support to both the patient and their family.
Independent living: This type of care provides housing and community services to seniors who are able to live on their own, but may want or need assistance with activities such as housekeeping, transportation, or social activities.
Telemedicine: This allows caregivers and healthcare providers to monitor and treat seniors remotely using technology such as remote patient monitoring and video conferencing. This type of care is gaining popularity due to its convenience and accessibility.
"It encompasses assisted living, adult daycare, long-term care, nursing homes (often called residential care), hospice care, and home care."
"Elderly care emphasizes the social and personal requirements of senior citizens who wish to age with dignity while needing assistance with daily activities and with healthcare."
"Much elderly care is unpaid."
"Elderly care includes a broad range of practices and institutions, as there is a wide variety of elderly care needs and cultural perspectives on the elderly throughout the world."
"Also known in parts of the English-speaking world as aged care."
"Nursing homes (often called residential care)."
"Assisted living, adult daycare, long-term care, nursing homes, hospice care, and home care."
"To serve the needs of old adults."
"The social and personal requirements of senior citizens who wish to age with dignity."
"Assistance with daily activities and with healthcare."
"Hospice care."
"Adult daycare."
"In a broad range of practices and institutions."
"Long-term care."
"Home care."
"There is a wide variety of elderly care needs and cultural perspectives on the elderly throughout the world."
"Eldercare, aged care."
"To age with dignity."
"The needs of old adults."