For caregivers, helping ageing residents stay healthy, happy, and strong can be sometimes challenging. However, caring for seniors with dementia can be all the more difficult as often accomplishing the simple daily routine tasks can get difficult. To help caregivers understand this better, we have rounded a few ways to help them deal with seniors…
If you are running a care home or any other assisted facility for seniors, chances are that your caregiving staff is helping the residents with medication administration. Although medicines can’t be avoided, having too many medications can be risky for seniors. Here are a few risks of medications that care workers should know about: Interactions…
From medication administration and assisting the elderly residents with the activities of daily living to planning their weekly activities – caregivers have a lot on their minds. With so much going on, it can be difficult for caregivers to find time for themselves. Carrying pressure related to personal life also adds to the stress. If…
When it comes to helping elderly residents living their lives to the fullest, meaningful and well-planned social activities play an important role. As a professional caregiver, you have to ensure that the activities you are planning for the residents in the care home are purposeful and interesting. As per a 3-year study published in The…
Medication errors can occur at different stages of inpatient care -it can happen while prescribing, dispensing, preparing, administering, or monitoring medication to the patients. Hundreds of people every year in the UK are seriously harmed because of medication errors. According to a study, every year 237 million medication errors occur in the NHS in England,…