San Diego Caregivers Agency Shares Spring Time Tips to Prevent Dangerous Falls for Seniors
May 1, 2019
Home Health Agency in San Diego Publishes Guide on How In-Home Care Services Can Help Prevent Dangerous Falls. Offers Free Online Needs Assessment to Help Families Understand Senior Care Options.
San Diego, United States - May 1, 2019 /MarketersMedia/ —
Firstat Nursing Services, a San Diego Caregivers Home Health Agency shares “3 Ways Home Health Care Services Prevent Dangerous Falls.”
“Age and illness are notorious for increasing the risk of falls, falls that can result in broken bones and head injuries,” says Linnea Goodrich, president of Firstat Nursing Services. When seniors get dizzy or weak, it’s important that they are never left alone. But family care 24/7 can be difficult to manage alone. That’s when it is recommended to utilize the services of a professional San Diego caregiver.
Here are three ways home health care services prevent dangerous falls.
Home health care providers manage nutrition - For the elderly and sick, anemia is common and can lead to complications like falls. Managing anemia-related dizziness often includes focusing on a consistently healthy diet and even taking supplements. But, many people with these types of diseases find it difficult to keep up with shopping for and preparing healthy meals on a daily basis.
They may even often forget to take daily supplements. Home health care providers help to prevent anemia-related falls by shopping for and preparing meals and encouraging your loved one to take their supplements as prescribed.
Home health care services encourage support equipment usage - When dizziness and frailty make even walking around the home difficult, it’s important your loved one uses support equipment to prevent falls. But, when support equipment like walkers aren’t within arms’ reach, they may fall as they’re trying to reach them; or they may forget to use them altogether.
Home health service providers help to ensure support equipment like walkers are used to prevent falls. A simple reminder to use a walker when standing up or a request to wait while the care provider fetches a walker can mean your loved one lives a safer life.
Home health care services provide assistance with daily tasks - Simple daily tasks like food preparation, light exercise, and bathing put elderly and sick folk at risk of dangerous falls. With a home health service, this danger can be avoided.
Home health service providers help to prepare food, bath and dress your loved one, keep the home clean, walk the dog, assist in daily exercise routines, and more, meaning your loved one stays safe, supported, and as strong as possible.
People wanting to learn more about home health, caregivers, in-home care and Firstat Nursing Services are encouraged to call 619-220-7600 or visit https://firstatofsandiego.com/home-care-san-diego-senior-caregivers/ to take a free online needs assessment.
About Firstat Nursing Services
Linnea Goodrich is the owner of Firstat Nursing Services, which is the only Home Care Agency in San Diego that is both State licensed and certified by the Alzheimer's Association. Firstat Nursing Services has been providing a higher standard of home nursing, home health and home care services for elderly, disabled and injured people in the greater San Diego area since 1997.
To give families and seniors a better understanding of how in-home care can help their daily lives, Firstat has developed a free online assessment tool. To see how it can help, go to: https://firstatofsandiego.com/free-needs-assessment/ or call 619-220-7600 to learn more.
Firstat Nursing Services
411 Camino del Rio South, Suite 100
San Diego, CA 92108
619-220-7600
https://maps.google.com/?cid=5806675770523173072
Contact Info:
Name: Linnea Goodrich
Organization: Firstat Nursing Services
Address: 411 Camino del Rio South, Suite 100, San Diego, CA 92108
Phone: 619-220-7600
Website: https://firstatofsandiego.com/
Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFowb6gZDNk
Source: MarketersMedia
Release ID: 508095
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