What is Chronic Condition Care?
Asthma, arthritis, heart disease, cancer, heart disease, and other chronic diseases that persist six months or more can cause disability or death. Chronic condition care is a high level of medical attention provided to senior citizens who have a chronic or long-term illness.
By lowering symptoms and adjusting treatment regimens, chronic disease care also helps to maintain wellness and quality of life. The Senior Plannings nurse ensures that chronic disease is prevented, diagnosed, and managed through planned care, scheduling, and coordination of appointments. Senior Plannings encourages patient empowerment and delivers important information to the family on a regular basis.
Why we need Chronic Condition Care?
The chronic condition may get cured completely. Therefore, it is good medical advice to take care of oneself by living a healthy life and having a positive attitude. The chronic condition care by Senior Plannings helps to maintain one’s’ best quality of life.
The Senior Plannings team
- Helps one by finding information about the disease, its cure, and management.
- Help one to feel good and provide one with a sense of control over the illness.
- Understands the specific type of medication for one, along with any special instructions or side effects
- Sets goals to give one a sense of progression.
- Helps one manage one’s pain and fatigue.
- Provides one the emotional support, speak to one and one’s family
Pain Management
Senior Plannings team is trained to manage Pain, one of the most important aspects of chronic illness. They identifying pain in a dementia or in a bedridden patient by regular monitoring of vocalization and facial expression by a pain scale chart.
There are two ways of pain management; medication and non-medication.
Medication: It includes the medicines that are prescribed such as paracetamol.
Non-medication: The non-drug treatment for pain management falls under non-medication. These include Cognitive-behavioral therapies, physical therapy, heat, and cold packs (for musculoskeletal injuries), massage, acupuncture, meditation, and yoga, etc.
Mental Health
Fatigue, pain, and aches are some of the symptoms of chronic illnesses. These are not physically visible but they affect one’s lifestyle and one’s mental health. It is never always the physical symptoms of a disease that bothers one. Anxiety and negative thinking add up stress to one’s life and one’s overall health.
- Our Phycologists and psychiatrists
- Lower down one’s negative thoughts.
- Extract information about one’s prognosis and their effects to make one feel in control
- Divert one’s mind toward other activities, such as chess, crosswords, puzzles, etc. to reduce stress level.
Aim towards offering a good lifestyle
A healthy lifestyle can help you cope with a chronic illness. Senior Plannings provides healthy cuisine. If you don't feel like eating, eat modest quantities, limit sugar, get enough exercise (depending on your condition), and get plenty of rest. When one is suffering from critical conditions, it is crucial to maintain one's quality of life. Social assistance may also be beneficial. Senior Plannings offers a volunteer team that organises one's meetings with family and friends and keeps them informed about one's health state.
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