Geriatric aides provide personal care for seniors in private homes, nursing homes, adult day care or hospitals. They assist with feeding, grooming, bathing, dressing, and cleaning tasks. They may also administer medications, check blood pressure, and help patients attend social events. A typical workday can be challenging due to patients’ different needs and behaviors, and sometimes understaffing.
A geriatric aide cares for seniors who need help with personal care. The word geriatric refers to the aging and aging process. Seniors who need geriatric care may live in a private home or nursing home or be part of an adult day care or hospital program. They may have illnesses or just need help due to lack of strength or lack of resources. Geriatric aides primarily assist with personal care such as feeding, grooming, grooming, bathing and dressing, but they may also perform some cleaning tasks.
For example, a geriatric aide who provides personal assistance in an elderly person’s home may also provide light housework, such as preparing meals and doing laundry. Home geriatric assistants can also administer medications or check blood pressure, talk to patients and help them attend social events. In community care settings, geriatric aides may be referred to as geriatric nurse aides as they usually report to registered nurses.
A typical workday for a geriatric aide in a nursing home or hospital begins with the aide receiving the day’s duties from a nurse. Every elderly patient may need different things. For example, one patient may need to be weighed, while another may need their blood pressure checked or helped to walk in the garden to exercise. In fact, a day at work can be very challenging for a geriatric assistant, as in addition to specific tasks assigned by a nurse in charge, the assistant must routinely help a group of patients in maintaining personal care and this is not always easy.
For example, some elderly patients may become disoriented and uncooperative when the assistant is trying to get them ready or take them to the bathroom. Other patients may have disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and may be unintentionally difficult. A geriatric aide might have spent a long time grooming and dressing a patient before carefully buttoning the patient’s shirt and tying his shoes only to discover, after leaving only a few minutes to talk to a nurse or another patient, that the first patient forgot to go for a walk and took everything off and went back to bed. Some high-end health centers can be understaffed and this can increase the workload of a geriatric care assistant.
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