Five Benefits of Telehealth for Your Senior
Your senior might not have thought much about telehealth for managing her big and small healthcare needs, but it’s an option that offers her some significant benefits.
She Can Manage Chronic Health Issues Effectively
Chronic health issues need to be carefully monitored, especially if the health issue is one that can easily get out of hand for your senior. By being able to connect with medical help via video or phone conferencing, your senior can ask questions and find out whether she needs a different type of care. This can also help to reduce trips to the hospital that aren’t necessary.
She Saves Both Time and Money
Leaving home to go to the doctor’s office or to the hospital burns a lot of time for your senior. That’s even more true if she has mobility issues that require her to take her time. Telehealth visits are also less expensive on average than in-person visits to doctor’s offices, urgent care centers, and hospitals. That helps your senior to save money.
Telehealth Is Convenient
Your senior can access telehealth whenever she needs that help, no matter what time of day it is or whether it’s the weekend or a weekday. Waiting for an appointment can take a long time, especially if your elderly family member’s doctor tends to book appointments well in advance. Accessing assistance quickly and easily is crucial.
She Can Reduce Risk Factors that Could Lead to Getting Sick
Being around other people can mean that your elderly family member is exposed to people who are sick, whether that’s with a cold, pneumonia, or something far more severe. In her own home, she doesn’t have to worry about that additional risk of exposure. Telehealth can help her to be much safer.
Telehealth Can Allow Long-distance Caregivers to Be Better Informed
If you don’t live near your senior, it can be frustrating when she goes to the doctor. Telehealth can offer you the opportunity to sit in on conversations with your senior’s doctors, even if you’re not physically there with her. This helps you to stay informed and can help your elderly family member to feel more comfortable that you know exactly what’s going on.
Having options that work for your senior to take the best care possible of her health is crucial. Telehealth allows your elderly family member to focus on what works for her and what helps her to stay safe and healthy, whatever else is going on.
Oxnard Family Circle provides these services in different ways – mainly by delivering meals and checking on seniors at home. Right now, we are not providing in-facility adult day care, but we hope to reopen that option soon!
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