A beneficial medical care program that benefitted the elderly in the population here, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
The Ninety-Four Year-Old Grandma Wu was Bedridden Due to a Fracture Ten Years Ago, Because There’s No Elevator at Her Place, She Was Kept at Home, and, Going to the Hospital Was a Challenge to Her. Last Year, the City of Hsinbei Started the “Taking You Out” Program on a Smaller Scale, Connecting the Medical, the Nursing, the Nutrition, and Physical Therapy Teams of Experts, Bringing the Services Home, Grandma Wu Gladly Received the Help Offered to Her at Home, for the Very First Time in a Decade, She was Able to Go Out to Shop at the Marketplaces in Her Wheelchair, She’d Smiled Radiantly, “I’d Not Come Out for a Very Long Time, it’d Felt Amazing!”
The specialty term came from Japan, turning the “cure” concepts, into “care”, with the nurses from the hospital acting as homestay caretakers, connecting to the peace and quiet in the elderly’s homes, so the elderly can live out their elderly years, with their physical deteriorations in the comforts of their own home.
From the statistics, it’d showed that sixty percent of elderly are taken care of by their families at home, and the thirty-percent of elderly are cared for by the hired foreign nurse’s aides, and ten person were put into nursing homes, and a lot of the families had the middle aged offspring, looking after the elderly parents in their eighties or nineties, they’d needed a lot of help.
“It doesn’t work that after the patients were discharged, they’re no longer our concerns,” Kai-Ping Chang believed, that the professionals should enter into the homes of the elderly, to help support them until the final moment in life, we must especially take advantage of the nursing professions, and set up the cases, the communications, and connected the teams working hand in hand in the hospitals and at home, to set up a plan of care that would work for the elderly individually.
Kai-Ping Chang said, that based off of the Japanese way, the home care programs can reduce the medical costs by forty-percent compared to the hospitalizations, he’d once taken care of a case of an elderly who had pneumonia, after the person was given the antibiotics, the family didn’t need to fight to get the rehab vans or taken leaves of absence from work to take him to the hospital to get treated.
Grandma Wu’s son, Ming-Je Wu said that his mother became bedridden after she had a fracture, they’d hired a foreign nurse, but she’d not taken her blood pressure readings like she was supposed to, and it’d made him decide to take care of his mother on his own.
“But, it’s driving me insane looking after my mother alone!” Wu told, because his mother had an urinary catheter, she’d often had bladder or urinary tract infections, and she was often constipated and vomited a lot, every time he’d taken his mother to the hospitals, he’d worried that she might not make it home again, and, staying with his mother at the hospital was difficult, and inconvenient for him.
Until last October when they’d signed up for the homecare program, the nutritionist set a new diet for his mother, reduced her constipation, and there was a pharmacist who’d adjusted the medicines, and there was also a physical therapist who’d visited their home to help his mother through the physical therapy programs too.
“Seeing the doctors climb up the stairs to our home, I’d felt that he was a modern day Dr. Schweitzer,” Wu told, that since the professional medical experts started providing care for his mother at home, his mother not just only walked with help, she could finally go shopping at the local marketplaces too, she’d become, happier, “the team of medical experts surely helped us a lot!”
So, this is, a very beneficial program, for the elderly to age the best they possibly can in a familiar setting, their home, and, because the elderly’s immune systems are weakened, getting them to the hospitals for treatments may be more harmful than beneficial, thankfully, there’s this home program where the medical professionals start making these house calls!