Dear friends, most of us are going to step into our forty's in a couple of years. And so are our parents and grand parents aging gracefully. There are chances that they be getting bedridden due to age factor. A bedridden patient's physical mobility gets restricted affecting them both physically and mentally.
Let us concentrate on certain tips to manage bedridden patients at home.
1. First and foremost bedridden patient needs a fair amount of dignity. The dignity gets reflected in each and every service we do for them. Be it in feeding them food and medicines, regular checkup of vitals i.e. blood sugar level, blood pressure level, daily bathing, changing diapers and keeping the bed neat and clean.
2. Spend some quality time with them. Just like a new born baby enters this world with lots of dreams to be fulfilled into reality, so does an aged bedridden person prepare themselves to leave this world with quality memories and it is the duty of the family to help them achieve the same.
3. Keep them involved in the current affairs of the family. They might not be of any immediate contributors to the happenings of the family but still keeping them in loop shall make them feel wanted and valued.
4. More than women, a male bedridden member needs more care and attention as they get easily offended to slightest mishandling since they had spent most of their life respected and cared by their female counterparts.
5. You may appoint third party personalized care-taker for your bedridden family member, but such arrangements shall not replace the personalized attention that you provide for your bedridden family member.
