Fun activities are great for everyone. They benefit physical as well as cognitive health and this is particularly important for people who have disorders that affect their mood thinking and behaviour. Dementia is one such progressive condition characterised by the decline in thinking, reasoning and memory. If you have patients with dementia at your care…
Caring for people with dementia can be daunting and challenging. It is one of the most common conditions that affect the elderly. It’s not a specific disease but a broad term used to define decline or loss of reasoning, memory, and other mental abilities. If you are caring for someone with dementia, you must remember…
Residents look forward to their golden years as it’s the much-deserved reward that they have earned after years of hard work. However, a decline in health and age-related issues often make things complicated to the point that one has to make a difficult choice of living in a care home. As a caretaker, it is…
When caring for people with learning disabilities, it is very important that you are able to understand them well and make yourself clearly understood. Effective communication is especially important for people with learning disabilities as they often rely on the support of others to do daily tasks. Here are a few tips to make effective…
Recovering from surgery can be a not-so-pleasant experience for a patient. However, as an elderly caregiver, you have to extend extensive professional care to ensure the healing process is smooth. The challenges of post-operative recovery care and ensuring that normalcy is back in a resident’s life requires a different approach. Here are a few tips…
Working in a care home can be a demanding job. Overwhelmed by a number of responsibilities, one can make different errors. And one such error is medication administration error. Administering medications is one task that affects the health of the resident directly. However, due to lack of drug knowledge, overwriting or other causes, care home…
Medication management plays a key role in determining the quality of care offered in different types of care homes such as nursing care homes, respite care homes, dementia care homes, and disability care homes. Using eMAR (electronic Medication Administration Record) can help care homes streamline their medication administration as the system outperforms paper-based MAR sheets.…
In order to streamline medication administration and reporting in care homes, documentation of medication is crucial. MAR (Medication Administration Record) chart is the standard system used in care homes for managing medication administration. However, a new alternative, eMAR (electronic MAR), is replacing traditional MAR charts as it is more precise and efficient. Here’s what you…
Caring for patients/residents in care homes involves more than just aiding them with proper diet and safe mobility; problem-solving, careful planning, etc. are some of the skills required in professional caregiving. Here are some of the essential caregiving tips: 1. Attentive listening Careful listening is the key to fully understand the concerns of patients; this…
Providing quality care to ensure the well-being of patients is the main objective of every care home. However, complications in medication administration and special care required for differently-abled patients and patients suffering from disorders such as dementia present a host of challenges. Here we discuss 4 common challenges that caregivers face: 1. Patients with severe…