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How to do nursing care at home for the terminally ill

Holistic nursing care at home with caregivers and lessons learned

Can we effect health and wellness with holistic nursing and complimentary health care from caregivers?

Abstract
Why are there more emergency visits to those who have no caregivers? What makes someone live a little longer from a terminal disease? Can depression be lessened with personalize caregiving and bedside care with massage and hugs? After caring for clients who are bed-bound and have terminal illness, we found that the presence of loving caregivers providing massage, preparing healthy meals, and compassionate care with hugs and care helped them live longer and prevent emergencies, lessen depression and help promote wellness.
Problem
How can we find ways to do early nursing interventions with education and support from caregivers and family using holistic and complimentary care.
Methods
Equip caring caregivers with knowledge and tools to help senior clients live longer.
Use health promotion tool such as smart phones, massage oils, essential oils, healthy and nutritionally-rich cooked meals, health monitoring tools, exercise coaching with simple gadgets such as stretch bands and balls and other health promoting tools and tricks from preventing falls, bed sores, UTI, food poisoning, pneumonia and emergency health issues.
Work as caregiver with clients committed to resolve their health issues and prolong their life span.
Research all educational health-related materials and new research in areas of senior care and other debilitating health issues.
Coach client to choose healthy life changes daily with proper nutrition, massage, body care, exercise and loving companion to make client change mood from depressed to happy.
Teach and monitor caregivers daily on client care and health monitoring.
Do case management visits with clients to reinforce healthy lifestyle and positive health promotion.
Results
Senior client live past the 6 months terminal lung cancer diagnosis with healthy growth and expected to live few more years on oxygen.

Conclusion
With loving care and personal attention 8 to 12 hours a day, a caregiver can help bring a terminally ill client to good health and increase his lifespan from 6 months to 2 years.
Personalize care is hands-on caregiving , coaching and loving hugs that robots cannot offer.
When family members are resigned to the care and there is only the caregiver who can implement care, the client can survive and even defeat cancer.

Compliments from families we care..

Compliments from families we cared for in the bay area needing home care from our caregivers….
MotherHealth caregivers began taking care of my 76 year old husband at our home when he was released from the hospital about 8 months ago with a prognosis of 6-12 months to live. My husband is an amputee, in 24 hour high flow oxygen with congestive heart failure and Interstitial Lung Disease, as well as a “book” of other medical conditions. My husband did not want to spend the end of his life in a skilled nursing facility. MotherHealth caregivers helped me transition to having my husband cared for, which was very overwhelming to begin with. As of this writing, my husband is stable and happy, so may very well exceed the life expectancy given while he was in the hospital. I attribute a lot of his well being to the care he received from MotherHealth caregivers at www.clubalthea.com 4088541883

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More compliments from senior families we serve….
My mom is 94, ambulatory, uses a walker, uses oxygen, and is a fall risk due to balance issues. She also needs medication reminders, meals, personal care and light housekeeping. Motherhealth home care has provided excellent, dependable, and trustworthy caregivers for us since May 2017. My mom is happy and very well cared for. I believe Connie of motherhealth at www.clubalthea.com will work hard to find just the right caregiver(s) for your particular needs. I wish you the best.

Connie Dello Buono , Motherhealth caregivers 408-854-1883 www.clubalthea.com

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