A special mothers day event were Nightingale nurses will have a dedicated area for the little ones to play while mums enjoy the beautiful breakfast by Reform. Lead midwife Malin will be on hand to check your babies well being including growth and weight and help you establish a sleep routine while answering any baby care questions.
Informative morning with Nightingales lead midwife Malin. An event for new mums to be, where you can ask all the questions related to pre and post birth and learn more on how Nightingale can support you on your journey through motherhood. Held in the beautiful Alma café in the gold and Diamond Park with delicious treats and goody bags for everyone.
Nightingale will be attending My Pregnancy Arabia for the first time with Lead Midwife Malin, a great opportunity to meet and discuss pre and post natal care with Nightingale Health Services. Discover pregnancy related offers and services and enjoy the many promotions and gifts at this free event.
A newborn baby comes as a bundle of joy in any mother’s life—a new set of emotions, a new world of experiences and a bond that is stronger than anything else in this world. However, just like any other enriching process of life, childbirth also brings with it a new set of challenges. The biggest challenge is to take care of a new mother and new baby’s health in the postpartum period, which is usually six to eight weeks after delivery. In a city like Dubai, while most expat families hire professional nannies for post-pregnancy care, there are several families who take linger break from their professional lives and manage without external help. Such families often rely upon their extended family members for help and support. Whether or not one hires a childcare and mother care nanny, it is important for families to be aware of a few basic parameters.
Let’s now look at some of the key areas that require attention during the period after childbirth immediately. The care of care and attention you need also depends upon the delivery you’ve had. Whether you are released in a day or after a week from the hospital, there are a few factors you need to monitor at home as well and communicate with your doctor regularly regarding your progress as well as in case of any complication or unexplained pain.
The biggest challenge begins after your resume your life at home outside the medical paraphernalia of the hospital. Monitoring your vital signs, preparing a healthy routine to care of your newborn baby after birth and to take ample rest yourself is a challenge. Whether you hire a childcare nanny or rely on your family members, you will need to keep in mind a number of points.
In Nightingale Dubai, we hold regular counselling sessions for new mothers and new parents and teach them basic skills to create a routine for postnatal baby care and postpartum care for mothers. We also share a list of dos and don’ts for mothers and babies for post-childbirth care at home.
Warm Sitz baths to soothe the vulva and perineal areas to relieve discomfort are recommended in case of a normal delivery.
Most mothers experience exhaustion and sleepiness as their bodies are still recovering from major changes. Taking adequate rest, eating nutritious foods and maintaining optimal intake of fluids are important to promote healing and adequate breast milk production.
Vaginal bleeding may continue for up to eight weeks. Inform your doctor if you experience the passage of large blood clots, a foul odour or a high fever during this time.
Urine leakages are common for a few months while coughing, sneezing or laughing, in short, any involuntary action. This is normal and will resolve. However, new mothers need to do their pelvic floor exercises.
Bowel movements can be painful after childbirth and so it is important to include a high fibre diet or stool softeners to allow easier passage. Take medical consultation for high levels of pain.
Often, new mothers develop certain skin changes and hair loss due to hormonal changes. If the problem persists beyond a few months, one needs to take professional help.
It is important to continue to breastfeed your baby and you must seek professional help if you experience soreness and discomfort while doing so.
Experiencing post-pregnancy depression or negativity, commonly termed as “postpartum blues/depression” can lead to dullness, lethargy, weight issues, sleeping problems and hinder daily routine of taking care of your new baby. Seek help if you are unable to care for yourself or the baby, as treatment can make you feel better.
You should exercise regularly, as instructed by your doctor, to help to heal, maintain positivity of mind and to get back in shape.
In Nightingale Dubai, we provide part-time nannies to help you tackle post-pregnancy challenges and lead a healthy life and care for your newborn in an optimal manner. And our pre-booked postpartum sessions educate parents in the most holistic manner to lead a healthy life post childbirth.
A metropolitan city like Dubai is a global melting pot of expats from various parts of the world. Such a cosmopolitan mix is directly correlated with an ever burgeoning workspace and an evolving job market. Non-standard working hours are no longer a far-fetched thought but a living reality for many. The nature of such jobs means there’s no fixed time to come back home.
It also means less time for babycare after birth. With both parents working in most expat families and mothers having to get back to work within six months after a baby’s birth, families demand professional day care services take care of newborns in the most holistic manner.
Childcare in Dubai has emerged as one of the most sought after areas of medical care and expertise. Apart from the conventional standard workday hours, most childcare centres now provide babysitting services at non-standard working hours keeping in mind the erratic and rotating job shifts of most parents. Most childcare clinics also work with contingency plans in case of change of schedule in parents’ jobs, sudden travel plans due to professional or personal requirements, overtime requirements or to fill in the gap when parents opt to do freelancing work on weekends or additional evening assignments on weekdays.
The fact that most expat families live without the support of their extended families makes it imperative for them to choose the best babysitter near them. The nearer the babysitting clinic the better it is to ease out accessibility and connectivity.
The increasing demand and provision for flexible working hours and extended work shifts means the greater requirement for babycare clinics with arrangements to accommodate such needs. However, even though modern childcare centres are equipped to deal with sudden changes in schedule, most still work under limitations. And if childcare clinics do provide such services, the costs are usually very high making them affordable for well-heeled expat communities in Dubai. While drop-in services at a daycare clinic in Dubai might still be an option to tackle emergency professional calls or urgent and unplanned assignments, they usually do not cover weekends or out of city work trips. While in-home day nannies work the best for established exapts, most young and rising professionals do not have the budget to hire in-home childcare nannies willing to do flexible working hours of for that matter even hourly-basis babysitting.
The Sunday-Thursday schedule that most full-time babysitting clinics in Dubai cover leave out Fridays and Saturdays. The situation can be alarming in the case of families with two or more children. So, in comes the weekend nanny to bail out a couple from this tricky situation. Babysitters near you who specialise in weekend sessions can offer two types of services: Providing a helping hand with outdoor activities for the child, with transportation to and from sporting, art and learning activities. They can also provide in-home childcare assistance to help parents go about with their “urgent” assignments. In any case, most families are looking for a dedicated, fun, flexible, reliable and professional babysitter in Dubai who enjoys taking care of children of all ages. Often times during Fridays and Saturdays, there may even be groups of kids present in the apartment, so the sitter should be comfortable in that setting as well. Weekend babysitting jobs are often an awesome opportunity for college students to make some extra cash and make use of their time off. An extra perk is that weekend sitters tend to receive higher rates and be paid a bit more than in the traditional settings, as the weekend is generally prime time off for most professional babysitters. Weekend nannies are also hired by those parents who have higher disposable incomes and require assistance during their week-offs to tackle added work pressure or even other personal engagements.
But such daycare services are not availed only by parents who have to tackle extra working hours or the unplanned nature of their work. It is also common for families with members who have part-time jobs. However, most daycare nanny agencies in Dubai are not equipped to respond to child spot booking calls on a part-time basis as it’s most profitable for the agencies to book the spot for the full day. At Nightingale Dubai, we have a registered panel of part-time daycare nannies as well as nannies who work on weekends and on non-standard working hours. We conduct counselling sessions for both parents/families and part-time and weekend nannies for both to understand their mutual requirements. Our registered nannies understand the urban lifestyles, time-consuming and weekend freelance assignments and multiple personal engagements are a reality of most families. They are sensitive to those needs and are attuned in that manner to fill in the gap in their child’s life be providing a healthy balance between indoor and outdoor activities apart from providing holistic childcare services. Our experienced weekend babysitters are adept in arranging safe weekend transportation for your child and in understanding that children above 5 most often are enrolled at either sports, arts or any hobby class on weekends and they provide ample support and motivation for that.
At Nightingale Dubai, we provide smart packages to help new-age parents to deal with the concerns of smart childcare.
Dubai being a global hub of professionals and a cosmopolitan mingling pot of expats, it’s needless to mention that here families come to stay from all over the world. And often without the security and comfort of their own immediate family. In stages of motherhood, when it is imperative for a new mother and the newborn to get optimal nurturing and Cesarean post-operative care at home, one needs to choose the best maternity nurse from the top-rated postnatal care clinics in Dubai.
While motherhood is surely the experience of joy and excitement and enriches the mother and the family’s life, the new mother is also worried about post-operative care and recovery.
So, the wonderful experience of welcoming the little bundle of joy to one’s home must be simultaneously followed up with a sound medical guidance and postnatal care at home. Since the real cause of worry starts after being discharged from the hospital, it’s best to have a reliable and recommended maternity nurse a little before time. This will ensure that parents of the newborn will not fret over handling the new list of dos and don’ts or about sleepless nights, rather enjoy the bonding with the baby.
Handling day-to-day chores of baby care is definitely a basic parameter that they need to take care of. This covers the activities of changing nappies, breastfeeding, dealing with sudden cries and hunger pangs. This also helps new mothers to get ample resting period to recover fully and regain composure of mind, as sometimes new mothers naturally tend to slip into stress owing to concerns regarding the new physiological and psychological changes as well changes in self-perception.
Most Cesarean or C-section deliveries postnatal care for mother and baby.
Monitoring during the first few months is vital for babies as that ensures healthy growth. Regular check-ups, supervision of diet chart, supervision of skin and hair conditions, baby massages and baby health counseling at clinics are all part of postnatal care. Healthy mothers and healthy babies–both from the physical and psychological point of view–are essential points of agreement for any postnatal care to be counted as a quality one.
At Nightingale Dubai, our competent maternity nurses are equipped to handle post-delivery care. They can guide a mother through the motherhood process via a well-packaged capsule of motherhood education. They also cover a vast range of experience to handle different kinds of families as per their cultural expectations or are adaptive towards the same. The motherhood capsule course provided by a trained maternity nurse attunes the new mother towards the varied and complex needs of a newborn while also letting her learn to respect her own body and not neglect its own demands.
Then there are the intimate details broken down to their practical aspects. Aspects like holding and handling a baby and responding to her changing moods.
Apart from providing sound motherhood education and counseling, a maternity nurse should be able to adopt a hands-down approach towards creating the right environment of nurture and safety for the baby.
Most fundamentally, maternity care nurses must maintain a daily medical log of the vital parameters of the baby and the observations noted during the day. This log should cover the basics of clinical assessment of the baby during the most critical postnatal period that is generally counted as the first six weeks post birth.
For newborns, such a clinical assessment service should aim at providing a routine health check-up and monitoring of baby weighing, imparting training for settling techniques, monitoring sleep patterns, assessment of neonatal conditions and prevention of outbreak of infections.
Mothers post Cesarean deliveries must also be included under this clinical assessment process. It should cover a thorough check-up of the vital parameters like blood pressure, monitoring of stitches, and prevention of any infection, dietary support to make up for the blood loss, post-cesarean care, and advice on family relationships.
Lactation Guide: Guiding a lactating mother on the right nutritional value-oriented meals to follow is important as her nutrition is important for the baby’s growth.
Baby Massaging Pattern: Hand-holding parents with the important and memorable process of bathing the baby and teaching them the correct methods and strokes for massaging babies is also an important feature of this.
Baby Feeding: Guiding mothers with proper handling and cleaning of baby feeding apparatus.
Breastfeeding Manual: Tons of concerns pop up in a lactating mother’s mind. From correct breastfeeding techniques to questions of the pressure it has on women, there’s a whole training session on breastfeeding that trained maternity nurses should conduct.
Baby Hygiene Care: This is very important for both babies and mothers. Babies are susceptible to contract infections easily from their mothers due to the close proximity. Maternity nurses train mothers to maintain supreme quality of hygiene.
New Mothers Counseling: Post childbirth often leads to depression among new mothers. In the medical parlance, it is known as post-partum depression. It is generally caused when the excitement of anticipating childbirth and the feeling of being at the center of everyone’s attention gets over. Then there are issues like body weight, self-perception, perceived problems in conjugal life, getting back to normal life etc. Experienced at-home maternity nurses can provide sensitive counseling to mothers regarding this.
At Nightingale Dubai, we understand that maternity nurses are more than just provides of home postnatal care services. They are also effective trainers and guides.
Elders are like those branches of a tree that have shaded its shoots and foliage forever and now they require a few soothing words combined with dedicated care and medical attention to lead a life of dignity and independence. Senior home health care services occupies a lot of space in modern healthcare and it’s especially true for a bustling city like Dubai, which is caught jet-setting denizens and a huge population of expats leaving most families with no time to take care of the elder members. And even if there are families and friends that are willing to do so and have the requisite amount of time, it can’t be equal to professional senior home caregivers and home elder care nurses who specialize in home eldercare services.
It is also important to remember that even if there are willing family members for senior home assistance they can’t provide 24/7 care simply because they have their own schedules and personal engagements, which is only natural at their age and both professional and personal stage of their lives. Round-the-clock engagement with elderly care would mean disruptions in the rhythms of their own lives and that is not sustainable for a long period of time. And who would suffer in that case? Undoubtedly, the elders who need dedicated attention and are not at all equipped to deal with such neglect. In such a scenario, it would be a pragmatic solution to get at home a specialist in senior home care.
Senior home care specialists also bring a level of technical expertise, therapeutic counseling, and daily assistance to board that is unthinkable from a non-medically proficient family member or well wisher.
At Nightingale Dubai, we understand that the elders of your family require a caring, well-groomed, and expert home care senior care nurse. Our screening process involves a through background and experience check to recommend the ideal fit for your family. We ensure that apart from superior clinical assistance, they are able to maintain dignity and respectability while assisting elders with performing private chores and also encourage them with words of appreciation. It is important that elders never feel humiliated or embarrassed or do not shrink into depression as is common during certain physical conditions that restrict movement or induce appearance changes.
Apart from giving peace of mind to your family, a well-rounded and reliable elder home care service should aim at the improving the quality of life of elders while empowering them to the maximum degree possible as well as helping them out with the essential activities.
A caring and qualified home nurse should be trained in administering first-aid and day-to-day care that covers the following activities:
A well-designed elderly home care service should also cover the following other parameters:
Monitoring vital signs: Vital parameters such as body temperature and pulse and respiration rate should be monitored regularly by home nurses and their record maintained as the normalcy of these signs indicate good health and vice versa.
Controlling infections: Elders, just like children, are most susceptible to varied infections and the spread of infections among elders is worrisome as they have lesser resistance power to overcome them. So, a home care nurse is required to maintaining supreme standards of personal hygiene of elders and hygiene of the home environment by ensuring cleanliness of living standards, sterilization of feeding tools and medical equipment etc.
Providing wound and skin care: Proper healing of wounds is stressed upon among elders for the same reason that the spread of infection is feared upon. Similarly, elders often suffer from fragile skin conditions and a home nurse should be able to dress wounds regularly, keep the area clean, and monitor healing apart from applying ointments etc for specific skin conditions as recommended by the family physician or dermatologist.
Providing support for external medical appointments: A elderly home care nurse should be able to block dates for routine medical examinations and check-ups, inform and update the patient’s family regarding the same, and if need be visit the doctor or clinic for these with or without the family.
Preventing bed sores: Elderly members often suffer from severe conditions resulting from a surgery, fall, or accidents that render them bed-ridden leaving them vulnerable to the dangerous possibility of bed sores. It is an extremely painful condition that occurs from constantly reclined position or bed-urination etc. A caring home nurse must take optimal care to prevent that.
Maintaining medical records log: Certain conditions demand a day-by-day, even hourly maintenance of a medical record log to be presented for review of the concerned physician. Only an able medical nurse would be able to render this service with precision and dedication.
At Nightingale Dubai, our registered elder care nurses are proficient in managing nutrition therapy, assisting with toilet rituals and incontinence issues, assistance with walking, stabilization and light exercise and engaging seniors in physical and mental activities.For diabetic patients, diabetes management, assessment and control and supervision of Diabetic foot are the areas that they look after. So, it’s a complete range of senior home care assistance that they cover.
Raising a newborn maybe a joyride given the emotional rewards but is definitely not a casual affair. On the contrary, it requires experienced hands and most importantly, expert guidance of a midwife or a maternity nurse. There was a time when all this was readily available to us in the form of traditional family support system of elders and relatives and even a mutually symbiotic neighbourhood and that too in an organic way. Families were larger and relationships were readily available for both emotional and day-to-day needs. But in today’s times with more nuclear families coming into the picture of a metropolitan city like Dubai, a professional maternity nurse can make your motherhood an enriching and stress-free experience
Today maternity care for new born could be a challenge with both working partners in most cases, who can’t possible stay away from work too long given the nature of most corporate or private-sector jobs. The rush of work deadlines and the pressure of keeping up means you are pretty much on your own to raise and nurture a newborn (and hopefully hop, skip, and jump), which only increases the pressures of healthy upbringing of the child.
Mothers themselves need to get back to work after their maternity leave gets over and hence the presence of someone experienced at the beck and call. Most importantly, that someone experienced needs to have professional training and certification and caring hands to be able to hand-hold mothers through the process of post-pregnancy care of herself and of the newborn. Here comes a trained midwife into the picture.
Midwives or maternity nurses, are registered healthcare professionals, and must be able to provide the most fundamental guidance, care, support, and advice to parents to make the first few weeks after childbirth a smooth, relaxed, and fulfilling experience. They assist new parents to take the right decision at each and every step, encourage them to ask questions and learn, and duly perform chores with them so that especially the new mother is rested and relaxed enough to embrace the challenges and joys of motherhood with energetic participation and appreciation of the new bundle of joy’s movements and expressions.
Thus an able maternity nurse prepares parents to partake of the journey of co-parenting and empowers the mother to raise the newborn with effective care without being fatigued. This valuable guidance helps parents to deal with co-parenting in a more mature and relaxed manner once the maternity nurse leaves.
Daily home maternity nurses or midwives provide wide-ranging baby care household chores on daily basis, generally on 12-hour shifts, up to six days a week. This option is ideal for families who do not want the nurse to stay with them and share their living space.
Depending upon the job schedules or other assignments of couples, families also hire home maternity nurses or midwives who are comfortable working on only night shifts. Such families have parents who are available during daytime to take care of the baby.
However, depending upon the particular requirement of a household, families also choose live-in maternity nurses who provide round-the-clock assistance and adjust with the rhythms of the household to provide baby and mother care in a more organic more, suited to the environment of the home.
Maternity nurses not only supervise daily baby care activities like
feeding, bathing, clothing, and establishing routines and sleep habits for newborn babies. Since they also physically perform all these duties with parents, while addressing all of their queries and concerns, parents get a demonstration of the correct procedures of performing these duties with both care and comfort.
Breastfeeding mothers require much attention, guidance, and care, and maternity nurses provide that with their keen observation, supportive words, and technical advice on breastfeeding. Additionally, they provide breast care in the event of any complication.
Maternity nurses help ensure all feeding equipment is clean, sterilized, and ready for use day and night thereby putting all bottle-feeding mothers’ concerns to rest.
In fact, first-rate personal hygiene standards are a crucial criterion for any trained maternity nurse to maintain as both babies and mothers are vulnerable during the postnatal phase.
Another thing that maternity nurses maintain, in this regard, is the hygiene of the baby and all associated paraphernalia of baby items–baby room, baby nursery, baby clothes, baby feeding tools etc.
They tidy the baby’s room and nursery, wash and sterilize baby clothes and feeding tools and not just that, they even help you set up and organize the child’s nursery. It is this special bond that they develop with a child that helps them understand what would work for the child and what would not.
Maternity nurses monitor the baby’s body weight and growth and the baby’s overall wellbeing as well as assist with the mother’s postnatal recovery. The fact that maternity cares for the baby in the most precise, technical, and caring manner, it allows mothers to rest and recover, while all worries related to feeding, bathing, changing nappies, and soothing the infant when they cry can be left to the able hands of the trained midwife.
For those families with big brothers and sisters, maternity nurses ensure that they welcome the new member of the family and help establish a bond with him or her by involving them with the baby’s growing up phase and by giving them small roles to participate in that process.
Another special area of expertise of night-time maternity nurses and midwives is to help establish essential sleep routines for the baby. They stay up to feed and change the baby, allowing the parents to experience a good night’s sleep.
Finally, since premature babies need special care, to administer care to premature babies, one needs to check with nursing agencies that the nurse should be trained at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. These nurses come with specialized training to care for premature babies in a home environment.
All these holistic factors are taken into consideration at Nightingale Dubai, one of the best maternity nursing agencies in Dubai, while providing parents with that medically proficient midwife or maternity nurse so that they get a combination of medical supervision and caring hand-holding through the difficult phase of motherhood. Nightingale Dubai maternity nurses are able to perform both routine baby care chores with precision as well as provide positive counseling to new mothers.
Motherhood–undoubtedly an enriching experience for a mother and her family–brings a whole new set of physical and emotional adaptations that need to be undertaken and it means a lifestyle reorientation. In this phase of transition to motherhood, a professional caregiver like a nanny for your newborn helps make it smooth, particularly in the jet-setting city like Dubai where professional priorities, lifestyle challenges, relationship demands, self-image perceptions, and emotional pressures are the realities experienced by most families in varying degrees. Since Dubai has a huge expat population, it rings true for them hugely and hence the need of a nanny in the absence of the traditional family support system.
Motherhood for modern women is also a multidimensional phenomenon today as women are exposed to multiple sources of information thanks to social media and support groups. However, the truth remains that every experience is true because it is lived thorough and hence it is unique for every one. So, even though there is more information and awareness today, the most intimate and the most crucial adaptations in a mother’s life only comes in the natural environment of the home. A mother and her baby has to be cared for and every aspect of motherhood and infant care has to be decoded only in the sacred space of the home. Which means the traditional support system in the form of family and friends remains vital.
Here, one point must be made clear that this traditional and most valuable support system, which we know in the name of family including the husband or partner (mostly immediate family) and often close friends, is not that readily and wholly available given they themselves are caught between several professional and lifestyle demands.
Another thing to be kept in mind is that it is not just the availability factor but the level of professionalism and know-how that is required to assist at home infant care. There is no mid-way or a casual approach to baby care after birth as it has to be done under thorough medical guidance and the able hands of a professional care-giver.
Full-time or part-time nannies are those professional care-givers who can assist you with postnatal recovery, infant care at home, and perform daily baby care chores with both efficiency and a degree of personal warmth.
Most professional nannies come with the requisite medical qualification to be able to guide the new mother on breastfeeding techniques, maintain a proper dietary chart and schedule for the newborn, monitor the mother’s recovery and adaptability to breastfeeding, monitor the baby’s sleep cycle, help the mother rest adequately by taking care of the baby, and gradually assist the mother in adapting to the baby’s feeding and sleeping cycles.
Another aspect of training that professional nannies come equipped with is age-appropriate language training and familiarizing children with elementary tools of learning. Qualified nannies impart good manners, spend time with the child at the nursery, play learning games, help children identify trees, plants, food items, numericals, basic colours etc in engaging and playful ways. This requires the nanny to be proficient with learning games as well as have a child-friendly disposition.
Since nannies operate with the most special member of one’s family–the child–who is also the most vulnerable, they need to come from reliable personal and professional backgrounds to be entrusted with such a crucial responsible. Also, since a professional nanny often performs chores in the private space of a home and that which involve close proximity to the body, it is of paramount importance that your home maternity nurse has impeccable manners and high standards of personal hygiene along with a pleasing disposition.
It is here that nanny agencies come into the picture as they are professionally-run centers that run background checks to ensure complete reliability based on proven track record or the fulfillment of certain formal criterion laid down as the agency checklist.
Ensuring safety and security of the child and the mother, agencies provide registered nannies with the required skill-set to take care basic medical care of babies and administer first-aid whenever necessary beside maintaining the daily dose of nutrition for both mother and child.
Nanny agencies conduct interviews with prospective nannies on the grounds of their childhood, education, experience and exposure, expectations from their ideal job, language proficiency, etiquette to suggest the ideal nanny four home based on their compatibility with your lifestyle and the requirements as per the setting your home environment.
Agencies provide both full-time and part-time nannies, home maternity nurses and infant nurses, nurses for baby care after birth and nursery nurses. Most top-rated nanny agencies will schedule interviews with shortlisted nannies, often at the convenience of your home, and help you select the best one for your loved ones.
The best part of hiring via a nanny agency is that the procedure of hiring happens with proper paper work and necessary security checks. The nanny in question also gets familiarized with their prospective employer, which helps them understand the employer’s requirement right from the beginning.
They are the trees who have nurtured us throughout our lives. They are the trees who have shaded us through the sun and rains of our lives. They are the smiling faces who have sacrificed many a sleepless night and thrown away all caution to the wind only to buy that one precious thing that we set our heart on.
Yes, they are our parents and elders of our families who have forever extended their unflinching hand of friendship towards us. Our caregivers who have lavished all their love and care upon us both in times of sickness and happiness.
This brings us to the question of caring and providing for them when they are in the twilight of their lives and need as much care and attention as we needed as children. These sensitive years are like a second childhood for our elders and they require constant guidance and support.
However, as much as we wish to provide them with the same care and attention, it is unfortunately not a reality for most professionals today. The existence of small, nuclear families staying away from elders and their immediate families, means a lot of family elders and a huge section of the generation of parents stay away from their sons and daughters and other younger members of the family. Often, the younger generations stays in a different city, and sometimes in a different country altogether making it difficult to provide quality home care for elders. Another important factor is that of the presence of newborns or children at home making it difficult for parents to care equally and constantly for both their children and parents.
And it’s not only medical care, routine tests, or daily administration of medicines and monitoring of diet that is required on a regular basis, but it is also about pain management owing to joint and muscle swelling due to arthritis, prostrate care, diabetes care, Alzheimer care, insomnia, and most importantly, depression and loneliness.
Since elders are used to the comforts and privacy of their homes and are attached to their homes in a sentimental manner, it is best to give them holistic care within the familiarity of their homes.
Professionally trained and mild-mannered nurses can provide quality healthcare services at home for elders while maintaining the sense of privacy and dignity that senior citizens look forward to. Here’s a list of services that elderly care at home should cover:
Assistance with bathing and dressing — Often, old age induces a series of problems that they think embarrassing as well as problems with mobility hindering the daily functioning of routine lives. Here comes the support of well-trained home nurses in assisting elders with daily activities of bathing, washroom management, dressing and making the bed.
Assistance with meals — Consumption of daily meals poses problems for a lot of senile people due to a variety of factors including mobility problem, pain-related issue, or balance-related issue. The best home care service includes daily monitoring with meals and assistance with feeding, drinking water, and taking medicines.
Monitoring of medicine intake — Home nurses are equipped to maintain the daily medicine chart and round-the-clock maintenance of medicine intake so that the elderly patient doesn’t miss a single dose of medicine. This adds to their well-being.
Monitoring of diet chart — Diet is a very vital component of any elderly person’s life. There are dietary restrictions and there are some complete no-no items for a lot of elderly people owing to the nature of their physical condition and particular disease. Hence, diet management is crucial for the well-being of senior people. Also, there has to be a balance of nutrition as well as satisfaction to their taste buds as seniors, just like children, will not have distasteful food. A professional home nurse has to ensure that the food administered to senior is not only healthy and hygienic but also palatable.
Assistance with mobility: Another problem faced by elderly people is that of mobility. This could be due to senility or any operation or acute physical condition. In all such cases, professional home nurses are able to provide complete and caring assistance with mobility.
Post-operative care: A major area of concern for elderly care is that of providing them with care and attention to recover during a very delicate phase after undergoing an operation, which is quite common at this age. Ranging from prostrate operation to knee replacement surgery and cataract surgery, trained home care nurses are able to provide them with the much-needed medical monitoring as well as mobility assistance, helping them to lead a normal, stress-free post-operative period.
Specialized care for rare health conditions: Health conditions such as Parkinson’s, Alzeihmer’s, paralysis, heart condition, or patients who are bedridden require long-term medication and constant monitoring of vital parameters. Trained medical nurses are able to provide 24/7 care and assistance to such patients with meals, medicines, mobility, and encouraging them to maintain a positive outlook.
A well-trained elderly home care nurse should be able to provide round-the-clock assistance in the following fundamental areas:
At Nightingale Dubai, we provide top-grade home care services for elderly healthcare management. We are affiliated with fully vetted and qualified home nurses who can not only provide 24/7 medical and daily assistance for elderly patients but also help them lead a life of positivity and independence by giving offering them mental counselling and anti-depression care, especially to battle depression and loneliness.
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