Five Important Facts for Your Senior about Face Masks
As your senior’s caregiver, you’re probably going to be helping her to wear and to maintain her cloth face masks. Understanding as much as possible about what to do with masks and how they should fit her can help you to ensure she’s got what she needs.
Home Care in Ardmore PA: Face Masks Tips
Don’t Use Surgical Masks or N95 Masks
Surgical masks or N95 masks aren’t good choices for your senior to be wearing right now. First, they’re difficult to find. They’re needed by medical professionals, too, so it’s important to ensure that those supplies are available for hospital settings. Cloth face masks truly are all that your senior needs right now. The mask serves as a barrier between her nose and mouth and the germs she might encounter.
Make Sure the Mask Covers Her Mouth and Nose
A well-fitting cloth face mask needs to cover both your senior’s nose and her mouth. The mask also shouldn’t have gaps around her nose, cheeks, or chin. It’s best if the mask has adjustable tie straps because those can help you to ensure that your elderly family member’s mask fits her as well as possible.
Make Sure Your Senior Can Breathe
It’s important also that your elderly family member can breathe through the mask. You’re trying to help her to avoid germs, of course, but she needs to be able to easily draw in air. If that becomes too difficult and she removes the mask or pulls it away from her nose and mouth, then that will completely defeat the purpose of the mask.
Encourage Her to Wear the Mask if She Has to Go Out in Public
Masks are recommended right now, but they’re not required. For your senior’s sake, she really should wear a mask if she’s still going out in public at all. The mask does not reduce the need for social distancing, however. She still needs to make sure that she’s remaining at least six feet away from other people.
Wash Masks After Each Use
Each time your senior wears her mask outside of her home, it needs to be washed. She should only put on clean and dry masks before leaving. Then, when she returns home, the mask needs to go into the washing machine. It’s important that the masks are completely dry before they’re used again because any wet fabric can let larger particles through the mask.
Wearing a cloth face mask may be uncomfortable for your senior at first, but as she gets used to wearing the mask it becomes less of an issue. Wearing the mask can also be a reminder to avoid touching her face, which is another good habit to develop.
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Ibrahim recently completed a Professional Certificate in Management; He is currently pursuing a Masters in Business Administrations (MBA) at a prestigious university in the UK.
With their passion for helping others and a strong background in customer services and clinical care, Ibrahim and his wife started assisting individuals in their homes.
Since started and operating Suma Home Care in 2010 in the basement of their home, Suma Home Care has provided professionals who work endlessly in providing clients with the highest quality of care, while enabling clients to maintain dignity, comfort and safety in their homes.
Suma Home Care, serves four counties in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Chester, Montgomery and Philadelphia. Ibrahim is firmly connected to his local community and is always looking for ways to give back whenever the opportunity presents itself.
Ibrahim enjoys spending time with his wife and children, travelling and enjoys sports.
Mariama Suma-Keita BSN RN
Born in Sierra Leone west Africa, relocated to America in 1999 from a civil war and settled since in the U.S.A as a Naturalized citizen Graduated from National school of nursing with an associate , and completed BSN in Nursing from Immaculata University graduated with Honor roll Alpha Lambda sigma, After escaping the war served as a refugee nurse in Gambia and Guinea to other displaced refugees before coming to America.
In the states started in Homecare then then transition into hospital, worked in Jefferson hospital as a Registered nurse on Tele and general medsurg floor, also worked in Einstein hospital as an oncology transplant nurse , I realized that I enjoy working with patients so much and believe in quality and compassionate care one at a time dealing with an holistic approach in caring for patients and family in a familiar environment called home , I see the impact and progress when they’re home , it makes them feel relax and progress fast with recovering at home. As a nurse and entrepreneur I understand that dedication to meeting people and families needs is a priority, and able to foster relationships with family and patients that is professional and friendly to help them stay and settled home as a desire.
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