Heart surgery can solve so many issues for your senior, but it can involve a lot of slow recovery. It helps to understand what your senior needs during this time so that you can be there for her, but it also helps to have hands-on assistance as well as skilled nursing assistance, just in case. Here are some other suggestions to help your senior recover from something as serious as heart surgery.
Get Help with Daily Activities
Daily activities like getting dressed and bathing are likely to be a lot more difficult after heart surgery. Having assistance with those tasks can make all the difference in both comfort and quality of life for your senior. Trying to do too much on her own can set your senior’s recovery back more than she might realize. It’s crucial that she doesn’t try to force herself to get more done than she can physically handle at this stage of her recovery.
Work up to Being More Active
It’s vital that your senior works her way up to being more active. Her cardiac specialist likely will give her a plan for becoming more active and that should help her to pace herself more readily. Doing things like getting out of bed every day and paying attention to how she feels can help her to gauge whether she’s doing too much or too little.
Get Plenty of Rest
As much as she should try to gradually become more active, it’s also important that your elderly family member rests when she gets signals from her body that it’s time to do so. If she starts to feel tired or feels fatigued, that’s her body letting her know to take it easy. This is definitely the right time for her to listen to her body.
Consider Heart Care at Home
Taking chances with her recovery is never a good idea. Heart care at home can help your senior to watch for signs of complications from surgery, such as infection or worsening heart health. Home health care providers are able to work with your senior’s medical providers to ensure that she’s healing well and that any problems she experiences get addressed as quickly as possible.
Recovering from heart surgery can be a slow and difficult process, but your senior doesn’t have to go it alone. With the right help, your elderly family member can have everything that she needs to fully recover right there at home.
If you or an aging loved-one is considering Home Health Care in Fitchburg, WI please contact the caring staff at Agape Senior Services Madison today. (608) 841-1004
