Ou Lihong: Engaged in nursing for 16 years, let the elderly feel the colorful new life| inject her energy
"When you come to a nursing home, the caregiver is the 'family' of the elderly." At the Hetai An Nursing Center in Beijiao, Shunde, Foshan, Ou Lihong, a caregiver with 16 years of nursing experience, said.
Caregivers are an indispensable role in the modern healthcare system. Especially with the advent of the aging population, the demand for professional elderly care and corresponding caregivers is increasing. Some of them are in professional institutions like Hetai, some are in hospitals, and some provide home-based nursing services to exert their light and heat. Among the majority of caregivers, most of them are women.
Ollie Red. Courtesy of Heyou International Hospital
Nursing is a technical work, sometimes it is also physical work, but also requires delicate psychological skills. The elderly need a full range of care and services, such as eating and living, cleaning and hygiene, some elderly people have physical diseases, or low self-care ability, but also to help him turn over, bathing and so on. In particular, many elderly people leave familiar families and live alone, resisting unfamiliar environments and strangers, and psychological care and guidance are very important.
Ou Lihong deeply felt the responsibility and hardship of this job. She said that caregivers should treat the elderly as if they were their relatives and friends. Get up early and be greedy, and you must settle down with the old man every day to settle down to eat and sleep. When they are homesick, they talk to them more, encourage them to make new friends, and discover that their later life is also colorful.
"For example, there is an old man, when he first came, he often asked to go home and hoped that his daughter would come to pick him up, so we slowly ran into it, accompanied him to do games, did finger exercises, neck exercises and other sports suitable for the elderly, and then he slowly adapted." Ou Lihong said.
Behind the visible contribution is the invisible contribution. Because of the particularity of her work, Ou Lihong herself also feels guilty about her family. For more than a decade, her daughter came mainly from her grandparents. Waist and shoulder pain are very common. Sometimes the negative emotions of the elderly will also affect themselves and need to be digested by themselves. Sometimes, the caregivers themselves are in a sub-healthy state.
"I also call on all sisters in the front line of nursing to pay more attention to their own health and maintain an optimistic attitude in order to support half of the sky and the sky of the elderly." Ou Lihong said.
Health Tips
Huang Guoqiang, the head of the Chinese Medical Center of Meihe Hospital, is a rehabilitation therapist
We often encounter people who have low back pain. One of the simplest and most common causes of low back pain is that my poor posture in life and work has caused psoas muscle strain and pain. Others are caused by degenerative changes and degenerative lesions of the lumbar muscles or bone and joints, such as disc herniation, osteoporosis, plate inflammation, congenital spinal stenosis, etc.
What should we do about the pain? First, we need to let the muscles ease up and get rest. Second, we need to reduce the habit of bad waist use, including establishing a correct sitting posture, standing posture, less bending, less making the waist uncomfortable. Third, we must avoid being cold and cold, and not blow too much air conditioning. Fourth, we can do some appropriate exercise to strengthen the workouts of the waist muscles.
The exercise we do can be a waist bridge exercise, that is, the action of the arch bridge, and also do some hip training, as well as stretching, etc., to enhance the strength of our waist muscles. Finally, we can also do some full-body exercises, swimming, jogging, playing baduanjin, tai chi, etc., to comprehensively improve our physique.
【Written by】 Xiong Cheng
【Supporting Unit】Heyou International Hospital Andyou International Hospital Affiliated Meihe Hospital
【Author】 Xiong Cheng
【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client