According to The American Geriatrics Society’s research, close to ¼ of all surgical procedures performed in the country today involve elderly patients. And for a variety of reasons, not all of those patients will fare so well during the post-surgery recover period.

The good news is the person’s odds of having a successful outcome may be improved with senior home care in Miami.

Here’s proof:

In June 2014, the journal JAMA Surgery published a very interesting article about post-surgical care of the elderly. It indicated that some patients who sought professional, primary care within 30 days of acute care discharge were more likely to have successful recoveries than those that did not do so.

But that’s not all.

An earlier Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine article on the perioperative care of geriatric populations showed that having professional nursing care before and during surgical procedures has the potential to improve elderly patients’ health outcomes too.

So in our opinion, that clearly shows the importance of arranging senior home care in Miami.

And there’s more:

By choosing the right senior home care services in Miami, elderly patients may receive personal assistance from a cavalcade of healthcare professionals at an affordable price. For instance, prior to surgery, seniors may want to elicit the help of nurses’ aides. The aides can ensure that the patient follows all pre- operative instructions and gets to the surgical site safely.
Once at the surgical site, the aides could communicate with the patients’ hospital care coordinators. The hospital care coordinators typically assist the patient during surgery and help make arrangements for post-surgery recovery care.

Such arrangements often include ensuring that the patients’ homes are outfitted with the appropriate durable medical equipment (e.g. bedside commode) and that the patients understand their physicians’ post-surgical recovery instructions.

After the patients leave the hospital, they could receive additional care by people like home care coordinators, critical care registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and live-in nurses’ aides. They could ensure that the patients use the durable medical equipment safely and monitor the healing process for the first signs of trouble.

To learn more about how having the right senior home care in Miami may improve surgical outcomes, please contact us at Best Care. We’d love to continue the discussion and provide assistance to those Miami seniors in need of professional home care.