The Nightingale Story
Based on the experiences of our clients and the notes we receive from their children, we have come believe that our services are life changing.
You see, when an elderly person is hospitalized, things change very quickly. Something happens when you change the environment of an old person. There is confusion, agitation, forgetfulness, memory loss, falls, sudden loss of the ability to take care of their daily needs (toileting, grooming, feeding etc) and then there is stress. You are stressing out because the hospital is saying that your loved one can not go home unless you have 24 hours care in place. You can’t do it all by yourself. You have to work and take care of your kids and then there is that big project at church and then you don’t know if your loved one can afford that kind of help. To make matters worst, you are worried that putting your loved one in another facility for rehab will only make for more confusion, new infections and a possible decline. If you have ever promised not to put him or her in a nursing home, you have all that guilt to carry around and your siblings can’t imagine that you are about to spend mom and dad’s money just for care.
If this sounds familiar, take heart. YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT
PLACE. We hear this all the time and we can help. As a matter of fact, we can
help you today. We can help you take your loved one home, find funds to help
reduce your out of pocket cost (for 24 hours in home care), nurse your loved one
back to good health to the extend possible and then we can help you keep them
save, happy and functional.
More often than not, 24 hours care is not needed for a long time.
Here is what one of our clients had to say while in the hospital after fracturing a hip and a shoulder. Looking down towards the foot of the bed as the nurse adjusted the sling, the following words were said:
“I may not be able to walk again. Do you think my leg is shorter now? When I was 85, I fell and broke my right hip. I was gone from my home for one whole year. I was in the hospital and then rehab”
The family of this client was fortunate to find out about Nightingale's Life Enhancement program. The Life Enhancement team was invited by the family and the doctor to join the hospital staff in providing one on one care in the hospital: to help do the exercises after therapy, to provide mental stimulation, to turn very two hours (a cast and a sling made it time consuming for the hospital staff) and to do the incentive breathing exercise. In two weeks, this client was discharged to the home where the same one on one 24 hours care continued. In just six weeks, this client was able to walk again.
COMPARE SIX WEEKS OF RECOVERY AFTER ONE ON ONE CARE TO ONE YEAR OF HOSPITAL AND REHAB STAY.
This is the power of Nightingale’s Life Enhancement Program. Call 440-205-2222 for details.