Avenues for Senior Care in Albuquerque are Diversifying Rapidly

Posted by articlelink01 on January 18th, 2016

Senior care in Albuquerque falls under one of those rarely discussed areas that people really do not think about as they go about their daily lives. However, one related topic that has often dominated public discourse over the last few years is the varied reasons of brain damage in old age, previously loped in one single homogenous category by the name “dementia”. Some diseases, of course, are more visible and more vigorously discussed in public than others. Following that thread, the facilities for Alzheimer’s care in Albuquerque, or rather the utter lack of them, are really something that we ought to discuss.

Briefly discussing the disease itself, Alzheimer’s is a neurodegenerative disorder that slowly causes major portions of the brain tissue to die and atrophy. Accounting for about 60% of all reported cases of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease slowly, but certainly, renders a person unable to perform the various tasks of day to day life. Problems often start with inability to speak, progressing into disorientation and a failure in one’s sense of direction and finally culminates in problems with vision, swallowing and voluntary motor control before resulting in the death of the diseased individual, usually from failure of the respiratory or circulatory systems. Life expectancy for Alzheimer’s disease ranges from 3 to 9 years from the time of diagnosis. It is therefore patently obvious that people with Alzheimer’s disease require extensive care-giving right from the onset of the disease till the very end

In the absence of dedicated centers of Alzheimer’s care in Albuquerque, facilities for senior care in Albuquerque and the rest of New Mexico can definitely shoulder some of the burden. Retirement homes and the related assisted living service providers are essentially prepared for accommodating patients with Alzheimer’s disease; they already maintain an ideal environment of patient safety and assistance that the patients sorely need. Since Alzheimer’s disease majorly affects people beyond the age of 65 years, with only 4% to 5% of cases being early onset, retirement homes are equipped to deal with most of the services that patients of the disease require. Institutes that employ professional and trained caregivers are at a huge advantage; their staffs already know the requisite medical procedures and techniques that taking care of patients of Alzheimer’s disease might require. Additional training required, if any, can be easily integrated into the schedules of the employees without much issue.

Other infrastructure, such as those designed to deal with the issues encountered by senior citizens in their day to day lives and those designed to deal with sudden and unforeseeable medical emergencies are perfect for this. Medical facilities are nearby, since many assisted living facilities already keep constant watch and vigilance on the residents and monitor them continuously. All things considered, patients of Alzheimer’s disease can be easily relocated to retirement homes as a transitory service, or at worst, an ad hoc implementation. Maybe this situation can be maintained until dedicated facilities are constructed for the care of patients. But until that time comes, these facilities will definitely do a good job of providing relief to the patients.

Facilities of Senior Care in Albuquerque are, therefore, perfectly suitable to be temporarily used as centers of Alzheimer's Care Albuquerque and the surrounding areas. The institutions are already prepared to deal with the issues of senior citizens, and considering that Alzheimer’s disease disproportionately affects people beyond 65 years of age, it is a safe bet that the facilities will be up to the mark of shouldering this responsibility.