Elderly caretaker counselling senior citizens at home.

Elderly caretaker are the nearest person who always stay with Senior citizens.

Loneliness is a major problem which affects elders both emotionally and psychologically.

This is due the growing emptiness syndrome.

One should always remember that this stage will come on everybody.

So it should be considered as a major challenge for elderly patients.

How loneliness can impair brain functioning

•  Loneliness can alter brain functioning directly.
•  It can lead to depression among old age.
• This depression reduces the production of dopamine in brain.
• Reduction of dopamine level can cause Parkinson’s disease.
• This disease affects patients ability to maintain balance and coordination.
• Here comes again the role of caregiver that patients with these kind of problem are at high risk of fall.
• Hand tremors, body shaking, difficulty in walking are major setback in this.

Factors responsible for this loneliness

– The children start living separately like moving abroad.
– Even within joint families, the elder feels lonely  because of lack of due respect, concern and care by family.They should be considered equally important.
– The younger generation generally lack sensitivity towards senior citizen.
– Senior citizen suffers extreme loneliness not having any body to share their thoughts.
– In cities neighbourhood friendship are rare relative and friends are busy with their own work.
– Senior citizen has no option to relay on television, books and computer as well as mobile phones to keep themselves engaged.
– When senior citizen left alone without any contact day after day, week after week. The elders become depressed.

Responsibilities of elderly caretaker

– Patient attendant must engage their elderly patients in small tasks.
– Elderly Caretaker must listen to small problems very patiently.
– Elderly caretaker must try not to ignore their patients.
– Try not to interrupt them if they say same thing again and again.

Weeheal is providing patient care and Nursing services at home in Mohali and Chandigarh.

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