Health Care at Home as a Senior-Care option

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Health Care at Home as a Senior-Care option- A
scientific analysis
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• Today we live in an era where development and
  innovation are the norms. With an improvement in
  technology, reaching out to the remote areas of
  the world is becoming increasingly easier. The
  rise in the availability and innovations of
  medical and healthcare facilities has resulted in
  more and more lives that can be saved.

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• However, like every coin, this aspect has a flip
  side to it too. The advanced technology comes at
  alarmingly skyrocketed costs of everything
  including the medical facilities. It is an
  extremely steep order for most, especially the
  elder citizen of our society.

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• With the onset of old age humans become
  increasingly prone to weakness and ailment. This
  calls for necessary medical treatment on a
  regular basis. But with limited financial
  resources such as pension or personal savings,
  bearing the costs of medical treatment, in
  addition to normal living expenses, becomes more
  of a burden than ever before.

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• Especially in critical cases, the patients and
  their families are swamped under a plethora of
  medical bills that range from medicines,
  equipment costs, room and bed charges to doctors
  fees and other miscellaneous expenses, not to
  mention the service taxes.

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• In such a situation bringing healthcare
  facilities to their homes might just be the most
  cost effective solution, since the patients and
  their families can forego the additional medical
  costs. Additional charges such as those of the
  added expenditure of travelling to and from any
  established medical facility are an added nuance
  to the medical treatment. Thus, health care at
  home not only helps tackle these costs, but also
  ensures a better and all round treatment with the
  patient being the pivot of all care and
  attention.

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• The benefits of the practice are not only limited
  to cost-effectiveness. They extend way beyond
  into dealing with other problems a patient has to
  face in a hospital setting. From running the risk
  of contracting diseases from fellow patients, to
  the lack of intensive individualized emotional,
  psychological and physical support and care from
  doctors, the possibilities are many.

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• Something that healthcare at home ensures is
  individualized care and attention. This is
  crucial for the elderly, who are easily
  susceptible to ailments and diseases. The health
  care regime is carried out by trained health-care
  professionals, such as the likes of occupational
  therapists and physiotherapists. This leads to a
  positive effect on the health of the elderly
  under care. Also, the chances of contracting
  infections from people around them were they in a
  hospital, is minimized.

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• Agencies providing health care at home are also
  sending a team of doctors, nurses,
  physiotherapists, pharmacists and physician
  assistants to monitor the growth and recovery of
  the patient. They also connect with the family
  members personally to administer treatments and
  medication. They conduct necessary tests and
  discuss the reports as needed, taking into
  consideration the patient as the sole recipient
  of attention and care.

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• The setup at home is none less than the one in
  hospital rooms that monitors the progress of the
  patient at every level. Any improvement or
  deterioration is closely monitored by the team of
  doctors and nurses dedicated solely to the
  patient. Therefore, these primary health care
  professionals including nurses, therapists,
  physicians and others, work as a team in tandem
  with the patient party to deliver an efficient
  health care service, utilizing all the tools, as
  necessary.

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• To top it off, the best part of healthcare at
  home is precisely that it is from the comfort of
  home. One should not underestimate the far
  reaching emotional, psychological and physical
  consequences of being in a familiar setting and
  in the midst of people who love and care for us.
  At such a critical stage in life, a bit of moral
  support might just do the trick.

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• In this healthcare scheme, instead of the patient
  party rallying to get an appointment with a
  doctor and rushing to the hospital on fixed dates
  with the patient, which may be an almost
  impossible endeavour for the elderly people to
  undertake, the patient party need only call for a
  doctor or other personnel of the same field of
  work, such as a nurse, for a home visit and
  receive first class treatment from the comfort of
  their homes. Not to forget, the high class
  facilities that were only to be seen in a
  hospital are extended to the four walls of the
  home, with extensive professional care and
  attention at the doorstep.

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• Despite the aforementioned benefits, the practice
  of health care at home remains a forlorn tale. It
  is little recognized in its sheer efforts and the
  services it delivers. Its advantages have been
  overlooked more often than not and therefore it
  yet remains a resource waiting to be tapped.
  Medical professionals in tandem with other health
  care professionals and the patient party must
  reach out to provide the best possible impetus to
  the practice of health care at home.

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• With the world progressing with leaps and bounds,
  the health care industry has not remained behind.
  Till yesterday it could have only been a dream to
  wish that one received such personalized medical
  care at home. With a skewed ratio of doctor to
  patient, it was nothing but imaginary. However,
  such facility is not only existent, but also
  responsive and yields results.

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• Health care at home is an idea that represents
  how an ideal health system must function. It must
  therefore succeed to meet the six characteristics
  of Medicine safe, timely, patient-centric,
  efficient, effective and equitable. With an
  interdisciplinary team of professionals devoted
  to health care, the revolution is not far away.

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• HCAH India provides following services-
• Home Nutrition Services
• ICU at Home
• Home Physiotherapy Services
• Home Pulmonology Services
• Home Cardiac Care
• Home Oncology Services
• Post Surgical Care
• Everyday Care
• Specialist Services