How to take care of the elderly with severe disability?

I have personal experience, a word is indescribable, an old saying is good, there is no filial piety in front of the bed for a long time, ask someone to care, and enter the nursery are expedient measures, there is no way, but my experience is that in the days before the death of parents, we must do the children take care of their parents in person, give their parents a little more care, just like the children are young and their parents care and love us! To take care of the elderly who are unable to take care of themselves, we must first adjust our mentality and treat the elderly with the mentality of taking care of children. When people get old, they will really become like children, what they can do before gradually becomes unable to do, and gradually rely on others, and some old people will blame themselves because of this, so as children, we must be able to understand the mood and situation of the elderly, so as to reduce the psychological burden of the elderly, reduce self-blame, do not be impatient or perfunctory.

The biggest difficulty in the care of the disabled elderly lies in the handling of urine and urine, the caregiver is dirty, the children are inconvenient, and the elderly are embarrassed.

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If the condition allows, the head of the bed is raised by more than 30 degrees to prevent the regurgitation of food. Secondly, turn over and pat your back regularly to promote the discharge of sputum. When buckling the back, the palm of the hand is hollow and held into a spoon-shaped, from the bottom to the top, from the outside to the inside.

Keep your mouth clean and do oral care 2 to 3 times a day. Clean up the secretions in the mouth promptly to avoid aspiration. The disabled elderly are divided into several stages: self-care and semi-self-care and full care.

Overall, caring for the elderly is as attentive and thoughtful as caring for a baby. The food should be soft and more liquid. Fruits and vegetables should be cut into thin pieces and cooked thoroughly.

It is necessary to change bedding and clothes frequently, and if the conditions allow the body, it is best to take a bath every day to avoid the development of bedsores. It is best to use nursing pads for urine and urine.

People who cannot leave people around and need specialized care; Maintain the cleanliness of the body of the elderly, so as to ensure a good function and maintain the body; The diet must be learned, and the diet must be balanced and healthy and suitable for the elderly.

Usually coax him more, usually keep an eye on him, pay attention to his dynamics, and pay attention to the number of times and precautions for urination.

Usually take care of the details of their lives, such as eating, drinking, and lazing, but also scrub their bodies, and take care of them. Although they are severely disabled, they are also conscious and need to spend more time with them.

At present, driven by the pilot of the long-term care insurance system, some medical institutions have set up integrated medical and elderly care wards and elderly care beds, which are still being explored and improved.

For the severely disabled elderly, it is best to hire a strong nanny to serve them, because if the children are at work, it is very difficult to take care of the elderly reasonably.

In fact, just like the elderly took care of us when they were young, we should also take care of them carefully, we were not sensible when we were young, and we often made mistakes, but how did our parents treat us? What should you do to them now?

How to take care of our parents.

Create a comfortable environment.

The living environment of the disabled elderly must be clean, tidy and quiet, and the room should be ventilated with windows every day to keep the air fresh and sunny.

The clothes of the disabled elderly should be loose and soft, dry and comfortable. It should be noted that the neckline of the clothes of the disabled elderly should be loose and not affect breathing. Families with conditions can place some flowers and plants indoors.

If the conditions are limited, plastic flowers can also adjust the mood of the bedridden elderly, and enhance the confidence and courage of the elderly to survive.

Fortify your diet.

The disabled elderly often have poor physical resistance, so nutrition should be strengthened in diet, and the disabled elderly should be given a high-protein diet with high nutritional value, light and easy to digest. Because the disabled elderly are bedridden for a long time, the amount of activity is small, the intestinal peristalsis is reduced, and it is easy to be constipated, so it is necessary to pay attention to the supplement of crude fiber food and water while supplementing nutrition.

Disabled elderly people should eat slowly. After eating, the caregiver should elevate the upper body of the disabled elderly by 30 to 45 degrees for about 30 minutes to prevent food regurgitation and suffocation.

Clean your mouth after meals.

Oral care for disabled older adults should be strengthened to prevent lung infections. For the disabled elderly who are seriously ill or have difficulty swallowing and are inconvenient to rinse their mouths, caregivers need to do oral care 2 or 3 times a day to remove bacteria in their mouths.

Elderly people who have been bedridden for a long time are not easy to cough up respiratory secretions. Caregivers should help and encourage older adults with disabilities to breathe deeply and produce sputum effectively. Caregivers should also percussion for the disabled elderly to promote the discharge of sputum, and the hands should be hollow in the shape of dorsal palms during percussion, and gradually percussion from the bottom of the lungs to the trachea, from the bottom to the top, from the outside to the inside.