Chronic kidney disease affects 37 million Americans. It’s often a silent disease that goes unnoticed until the first symptoms appear. Your mom’s doctor diagnosed kidney disease. What happens now?

Talk About the Ways Home Health Care Services Can Help

First, it’s time to consider what help your mom is going to need at home. Careful monitoring of her blood pressure is important if she has high blood pressure. A home health nurse can take her vital signs every day.

Second, diabetes is a concern. If she has been diagnosed with diabetes, she needs help with diabetes management. She can have home health services like diabetes education to help her learn how to control her blood sugar levels through diet, exercise, and medications.

Third, your mom should work with a dietitian. That is something that can happen in her home. She needs to learn how to prepare foods that do not exceed potassium, protein, and sodium requirements. Too much of those can mess with her electrolyte balance and cause harm.

Fourth, if dialysis becomes necessary, nurses can help with the IV lines that are used in home dialysis. If a line accidentally gets pulled out, they can fix it.

One of the biggest benefits of having home health care nurses is that they have the specialized skills that family members lack. Your mom’s doctor may say you can help your mom care for her kidneys, but you may not be comfortable with this level of care. A home health care nurse handles those care needs that you can’t handle.

With a home health care nurse helping with any IV medications, injections, and health monitoring, you’ll be free to spend time with your mom doing things you both enjoy. If you want to learn more about her care needs, a home health care nurse can help you learn more. If you want to focus on being your mom’s companion, that’s fine too.

Discuss Her Needs With a Home Health Care Agency

Home care aides cover basic tasks like cleaning, cooking meals, and companionship. Sometimes, that’s not enough. If your mom has kidney disease and needs dialysis, have you considered home health care services? When dialysis is needed, home health care may help keep trips to a medical office or hospital to a minimum.

Call our local agency and ask about the different home health care services. With nurses helping with IVs, blood draws, and medication administration, your mom is supported in the comfort of her home rather than a less familiar, sometimes uncomfortable medical setting.

Sources: https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/community-health-outreach/national-kidney-month

If you or a family member are in need of hiring Home Health Care Services in Margate FL, call the caring professionals at Star Multi Care today at (954) 870-4770. Providing service in Boca Raton, Boynton Beach, Coconut Creek, Deerfield Beach, Delray Beach, Ft. Lauderdale, Lauderhill, Margate, Pompano Beach and Tamarac.

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With over 35 years of experience, Stephen Sternbach has been the Chairman of the Board of Directors, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Star Multi Care Services since 1987. After the sale of the New York and New Jersey operations of Star Multi Care Services, Sternbach brought the company private where he remains President and CEO of this 40-million dollar company. With Sternbach at the helm, Star Multi Care Services employs more than 650 employees, in six offices throughout Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York.

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