Why post-operative care for elderly patients is crucial

Just like pre-operative care, post-operative care in the elderly is also equally important. Due to changes in the efficiency of the bodily systems, an elder experiences a variety of complications after surgery. Problems can range from decreased physical mobility, painful joints, high blood pressure, delirium, nutritional deficiencies, and respiratory complications with urinal infections. Even different surgeries have got different side effects. Also, it is very important to know that each human body reacts differently and needs care accordingly.  These problems not only affect their rate of recovery but also hamper their self-esteem. Hence, they need specialized care that would help them heal and also gain back their former health condition. The process is not easy since an elder’s body and mind react in a different way than that of the youngsters. Due to the compromised immunity power, an elder is often unable to take medicinal courses that are otherwise administered to young people. Due to the sensitive nature of their body and mind, they need a lot of time to heal. For all these reasons, elders need professional medical care during the post-operative phase.

It is a known fact that a healthy mind results in better physical recovery as it triggers happy hormones, like serotonin that accelerate the healing process. However, elders during the post-operative phase often succumb to loneliness and depression. After any surgery, an elder experiences a lot of pain and tiredness, often leading to skipping simple tasks like forgetting to drink water. These big and small aspects of surgical after-care can cause a tremendous amount of confusion, panic, and disorientation in elders.  During this phase, they need someone to accompany them for day-to-day chores, and above all a companion with whom the patient can share their feelings. Usually, it becomes difficult for the family members, especially adult children as they are not always available at home. For all these reasons, professional care for post-operative elderly patients is extremely necessary.

Aurum, is one of the best senior living residences in Gurugram, offering one of the best post-operative care in India. Aurum has a 24×7 in-house medical team of doctors, nurses, and caregivers. They provide a suitable medical routine to facilitate your healing. The caregivers and nurses are trained to handle post-surgery symptoms and help in managing them.

From changing dressings to monitoring health conditions, administering pain management medications, serving meals, helping with personal care, assisting for restroom business, brushing, and showering nutritious meals, and most importantly, ensuring that the patient is taking the correct dose of medicines – nurses and caregivers assist elders in every step during recovery. Aurum is also partners with leading hospitals, labs, and ambulances to help ailing elders with routine/emergency care.

Since recovery becomes difficult for elders suffering from dementia, caregivers focus on managing all sorts of delirium experienced by the elderly. At Aurum, there are elder-friendly features that make the lifestyle for elders easy and warm. We maintain the system in such a way where elderly patients are not likely to face confusion about what to do next or what to do in an emergency. For them, the best move would be shifting to Aurum after surgery. We truly believe that a healthy body and a happy heart do make a difference and hence our qualified team of doctors are doing their best to provide all the essentials. Our team can assist in any situation and that is why Aurum has got such a nice environment to live your life. Post-surgery is recommended for extra care, and we believe that love and warmth are the best therapies to make it happen.  Now we can say, recoveries are easy if it is taken care by the professionals and at Aurum senior assisted living spaces, we nurture the fact that we have got the liberty to spread awareness and affection to people.