Hand and wrist pain is the worst, especially when a person needs elderly care. Granada Hills, CA residents get annoyed by hand and wrist pain in seniors as much as anyone.
Hand and wrist pain is the worst because not only is it pain — just a dull, aching pain that sometimes spikes to a sharp stabbing feeling — but it also means your loved one can’t use his or her hands to do something about the pain! Those with chronic health conditions know that they need to use their hands a lot, not less, to have arthritis care for seniors. Granada Hills, CA does have fantastic caregivers for seniors, however. The trained, licensed, bonded, compassionate CAREGivers of Home Instead.
The pain may only be bad enough to need a senior companion or basic home care assistance in Granada Hills, CA. Or it might be bad enough to require 24-hour elderly care. Either way, or if it is somewhere in between, Home Instead can put together a package that suits your needs and fits your budget when you finally say, “I need a caregiver for my mom, dad, or both parents.”
The CAREGivers of Home Instead can assist with daily chores that become too difficult for seniors with arthritis. They can help to cook delicious and nutritious meals. They can help with personal hygiene, picking up clutter or cleaning, organizing, and other tasks. These are tasks that people just did for themselves for so long, but the pain means the tasks are harder to do, even though they still need to be done!
But even with all of the assistance that the CAREGiver gives, the pain from arthritis in the hands may still be there. So here are a few tips and gadgets that can help relieve that pain and make the day more pleasant.
First is the Advil bottle with the easy-open cap. There may be nothing worse than having a bottle of pain reliever that you can’t open due to the pain! Advil thought of that, and made a bottle with a large cap with extra flanges on it. These make it much easier to grip, and the cap doesn’t require a complicated press and turn action. Relief will come much sooner.
Also on the market are compression gloves. These soft gloves apply a gentle pressure to the wrist and hand, which helps to warm the affected region and keep the painful swelling down. These gloves can be worn all day, and they stop short of the finger tips so the wearer can still feel and grip.
Another kind of glove is a vibrating, massaging glove. These are not meant to be worn all day, but they provide therapy to the affected region for a time to prepare your hands for action.
For more localized pain, some manufacturers make braces that stabilize just a part of the hand. They reduce the range of motion a bit, but they take the strain off of the joints that may be most affected by arthritis.
These and many more products can help to reduce that irritating, distracting pain in the wrists and hands that plagues so many seniors.
But maybe the best help is the help of a compassionate CAREGiver from Home Instead. Not only can they help with the things that arthritis makes difficult, but they’ll do it with a smile.
Call today for a virtual or in-home assessment: 818-988-6848.
