While many surgeries a fairly common surgery, recovery from a serious surgery can easily take several weeks once your loved one is back at home. If your loved one can stay with a family member, that’s always helpful but sometimes that isn’t an option because of a lack of space or too great of a distance. If that is the case, you might decide to have a 24-hour home care team come to his home to help him during the recovery period.
How a 24-hour Home Care Team Can Help Your Loved One Recover from Surgery
It’s always a relief to come home and leave the hospital but with any recovery, it takes time and your loved one needs the ability to rest and not worry about things around the home as he recovers. Here are just a few of the chores and tasks your 24-hour home care team can assist with so your loved one can focus on getting better quickly.
Pet Care
If your loved one has any pets that need routine care and maintenance, a 24-hour home care team can help make sure his pet gets what it needs while he rests. They can take the dog out for walks (and clean up after him), clean out the kitty litter box as needed, and make sure all pets get food and water as needed. That way, your loved one only needs to worry about snuggling with his furry pet as he rests and recovers.
Meals
Keeping well nourished is an important part of your loved one’s recovery period. He needs to not only consume calories but make sure he’s eating items that will help his recovery progress. But preparing a healthy meal at this point is well out of his reach and sometimes even putting those prepared meals from family members and friends into the microwave and then cleaning up afterward can seem like too much work. A 24-hour home care team will make sure your loved one has freshly prepared meals and then will take care of all of the cleanup afterward as well.
Personal Care
Taking a bath or using the bathroom may require some assistance as well at the beginning but your loved one may not be comfortable asking a family member to help. And a family member may not be available for any middle-of-the-night bathroom visits. His 24-hour home care team will have someone at the home all day and night who is awake and ready to step in whenever assistance is needed. It can be very reassuring for both him and you to know someone is always there to help.
Household Chores
Dishes still need to be washed, clothes still need to be cleaned and the lawn still needs to be mowed no matter how long it takes your loved one to recover, and that can cause unnecessary stress on your loved one if he sees chores not being completed. It might also tempt him to overexert himself to complete these tasks if there isn’t anyone there to step in and help. A 24-hour home care team will take care of key household chores so he can relax and let his body heal.
These are just a few ways a 24-hour home care team will help your loved one recover from surgery.
If you or an aging loved one are considering 24-Hour Home Care in New Iberia, LA, please contact the caring staff at BrightCare Homecare today. Call (337) 279-5466
BrightCare Homecare is a top provider of home care services in Lafayette, Youngsville, Broussard, New Iberia, Breaux Bridge, Carencro, Opelousas, Sunset, Crowley, Abbeville, Scott, Cecilia, Port Barre, Iota, and the surrounding areas.
Through a personalized care plan, BrightCare Homecare provides the necessary services and care to cater to your unique personal and health needs. With us, we ensure around-the-clock services and supervision to help achieve optimum health and wellness.
We are a top provider of home care services in Lafayette, Youngsville, Broussard, New Iberia, Breaux Bridge, Carencro, Opelousas, Sunset, Crowley, Abbeville, Scott, Cecilia, Port Barre, Iota, and the surrounding areas.
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