What is chronic care 🚑?
Chronic care refers to medical care which addresses pre-existing
or long-term illness, as opposed to acute care which is concerned with short
term or severe illness of brief duration. chronic medical disease include asthma, diabetes, hypertension, depression, and heart disease. Without effective treatment
chronic conditions may lead to disability. Chronic care
aims to maintain wellness by keeping symptoms in remission while
balancing treatment regime and quality of life. Chronic care is complex in nature because it may extend
over a pro-longed period of time, requires input from a diverse set of health professionals, various medications and possibly monitoring equipment
Nursing
management of chronic care
👉Chronic disease management is the care coordination and self-management support to help people with chronic diseases to better manage their condition and access appropriate services in order to improve their own health outcomes, prevent complications and reduce the need for hospitalisation.
👉Chronic disease management at home aims to improve your mental, physical and emotional well-being by reducing the discomfort you experience from the diseases as well as reduce any unnecessary hospitalisation associated with these conditions. At Persona Nursing Home Care, we create individualised, person-centred chronic disease management plans for our clients.
👉We work closely with your loved one and provide regular reviews of these plans to you and your treating doctors to ensure chronic disease management plan is always current and as effective as possible. If you or a loved one would benefit from chronic disease management and care, you can learn more about options available and steps to take to receive this care by contact us.
What chronic care nursing will do:
📍Manage and support our patient’s health care needs via phone conversations and via our technology.
📍Manage and support a personalized care plan for each member to address their physical, mental, and preventative health.
📍Coach members to reach their goals of medication management, following medical treatment plans, healthful eating, weight management, increasing activity, stress reduction, and sleep improvement.
📍Connect members with professionals such as nutritionists, nurses, and doctors who can also assist them in meeting their health care needs.
📍Prepare members for appointments, procedures, and provide efficient follow-up.
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