John Bolin with Approved Home Care enjoyed meeting with the Hospital Educator for Heathsouth Plano Rehab Hospital.  On our visit, we learned that Heathsouth Plano Rehab Hospital’s Clinical Team is Nationally recognized as a top performing Hospital with Superior Patient Outcomes.  This puts Heathsouth Plano Rehabilitation in the top 10% for the ranking in 2012.  The facility is state of the art, and the professional staff has decades of experience in physical therapy and rehabilitation.

We enjoyed learning about each other’s experience and feel our in home care services are a great fit for Rehabilitation Hospitals, both in and out of home.  John also discussed with the staff more about our Stroke Awareness program and our Rehabilitation recovery program.  Our caregivers can be trained by the Physical Therapist coming to the patient home, and help the client do daily exercises to heal at a faster rate.  Our in home caregivers give your loved one the advantage to healing faster since we provide an experienced caregiver at home to help be sure the senior is remembering to do the exercise correctly on a regular basis.  This one-on-one care, helps your parent strengthen physically as recovering from a medical stay.

As an in home care company, we have caregivers on our payroll who have helped with physical therapy for recovering patients in Plano, Dallas, Richardson, Allen, and Frisco.  After my Mother’s heart attack, caring for my Dad who was being treated for Prostate cancer was even more difficult.  Mom needed a caregiver to help her regain her strength after her open heart surgery.  Mom was recovering from a quadruple bypass.  Mom spent time in a Rehab facility, but still needed care when she came back home.  Dad was not feeling well, and a caregiver came into their home and reminded Mom to walk short distances to build up her strength.

The caregiver was such a blessing and she was there daily to be close by to help Mom from falling as Mom was working to regain her strength in light walking exercises.  An in home caregiver helped her recover faster, and relieved stress by helping clean the house, make meals, and run errands, like picking up prescriptions and groceries.  The caregiver would walk outside and pick up the newspaper, to putting the garbage out for pickup, and answer the door when visitors wanted to drop in and enjoy each other’s company.  We felt this added security of having an in home caregiver helped Mom and Dad from falling.  They were frail after time in the hospital and rehab, and the caregiver gave us the peace of mind.  Mom and Dad healed and quickly improved with the added care of having an experienced Nurse Aid in their home daily to monitor and help promote wellness.

If you find yourselves with a loved one in the hospital or rehabilitation center, please call us and we can come and meet you in the hospital or rehab to explain services.  We can schedule our experienced caregiver to pack up the hospital room, and drive the senior home from the hospital.  Many times, home health Nurses and Physical Therapists may take up to 3 days after your parent gets out of the hospital to make the first visit.  We can be in the home immediately upon discharge to bring added safety and care in the crucial transition times, immediately coming back home.  Give us a call at (972) 658-4001 to answer your questions.  We would love to take care of you!

Caregivers in Plano, TX

There are always going to be times when you need a bit of support from the people closest to you. No matter how strong you may appear, or how ‘in control’ you want those around you to believe that you are, everyone needs some support from time to time. When you have a family member who is a caregiver, make sure that you give them the emotional support that they need, and anything else that might make their life a bit easier.

What Are Some Things that You Can Do to Support the Caregiver?

There are many things that we can all do to support the home care provider. Some of the ways that offer the most support are listed here.

1. Be willing to listen. Sometimes, all that someone needs is to know that there are other people who are willing to listen. It can be tough to take care of a family member, and it can be even tougher when they feel as though no one is listening, or cares about them.

Take the time to listen. Even if they aren’t reaching out to you directly, you can still offer them support by calling them up from time to time to see how they are handling things. Don’t offer unwanted advice, though. Just listen.

2. Avoid talking about yourself. There are times when it’s fine to talk about yourself or to tell stories about other people that you know who were caregivers for their family, but when you have a family member who has taken on this role, it’s about them.

Learn to put them first and avoid going on and on about yourself and all of the fun things that you’re doing at the moment. If they ask, then it’s fine to talk about you, but keep it brief and make them feel as though they are more important.

3. Offer to help with whatever you can. You might not think that there’s anything you can do for the caregiver, especially if you live a long distance away, but you might be surprised. The caregiver might tell you that you could call your elderly family member once in a while, just to talk.

It could make all the difference in the world to them, and you.

Having a family member be a caregiver can be challenging for the patient and the caregiver. When you’re there for them and offer support, it can be the difference between a positive experience and one filled with challenges.

If you or an aging loved one are considering caregivers in Plano, TX, contact Approved Home Care at 972-658-4001 today.

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