How Apps Can Help You Take Care of Aging Parents

Taking care of the elderly while taking care of your own children is challenging. It is even more difficult when you need to work to purchase medicines and pay for the medical treatment of your aging parents. The tasks seem endless and you are often tired. This scenario is common for adults who are in the sandwich generation, those who have to simultaneously care for their senior parents and their own children.

Being in this situation takes a vast amount of patience and stamina to withstand sleepless nights and drained energy. Good thing there are now apps that can assist with caregiving. These are some healthcare apps, smartwatches, wearables, and smart devices. These technologies can be integrated with medical devices, so as to efficiently manage caregiving at home.

You can download healthcare apps then integrate them with your smartwatch and provide each of your children one, so you can monitor their health while caring for your elderly parents, too. Purchase a wearable device and fasten it to the wrist of your aging Mom and Dad, so you can check their blood pressure, heartbeat, oxygen level, sleep pattern, and body movement.

You can also opt to buy smart devices with sensor monitors and integrate them with the wearable, smartwatch, or app so you can visually see on a bigger screen the physical movement of your elderly parents. These tools can help during physical therapy sessions, so you can see progress online, and provide feedback for some concerns to the medical practitioner or caregiver. 

These tools can also help during close monitoring days such as post-surgery care. 

Some popular healthcare apps feature virtual consultation with doctors, prescription medicine searches and purchasing, physical therapy exercise monitoring, sleep monitoring, respiration monitoring, blood pressure and heartbeat rate checking, blood sugar level tracking, and mental health advising. 

Health care app development gives the most practical assistance in medical treatment during this pandemic. This has enabled medical practitioners and caregivers to receive reliable health insights to guide them in performing first aid remedies. Software developers and engineers are now integrating Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in some medical devices to assist in surgeries and complex medical treatment. 

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Here are some of the most popular healthcare and medical apps for the elderly.

1. Online Consultation App

The most in-demand app nowadays for the elderly is the one that can schedule an appointment for a medical specialist and have the consultation take place online. The doctor integrates computer vision technology into the app, so he or she can closely look at the patient's body parts such as throat, eyes, and hands and observe unusual symptoms. 

This app can even be integrated with a bigger monitor or a laptop screen, so the doctor can see the patient clearly. This online consultation app also enables group video calls, so the caregiver and the family member can listen to the instructions of the doctor and take note of the required prescription, diet, and lifestyle change. 

Through this online consultation app, the prescriptions can be sent directly to the user’s inbox This app simulates the experience in a clinic or hospital and helps you and your elderly be attended to by the medical professionals. Telehealth apps have helped a lot of seniors and their family members get optimal care during this pandemic. Consider downloading this app especially if you have seniors that are physically challenged.

2. Prescription Organizer App

This app allows you to take a screenshot of prescriptions, upload them so you can have the detailed list on your smartphone. The app scans the names of the medicines, the dosage, the frequency, and the allowed number of refills, then organizes the information by category.

This app uses artificial intelligence to give you an automated analysis of the scanned image. It is helpful for caregivers, nurses, and hospital staff, who are attending to more than one patient. It is like pill monitoring software that helps you stay alert about what time to give the medicine, to whom, and what dosage.

The app allows you to share the organized file with a permitted family member or another caregiver, so you can track the status of the patient’s medication and avoid double dosage. This is helpful when relaying instructions to the next caregiver, especially during night shift turnover. 

3. Patient Document Management App

This app helps you store and retrieve your family member's medical documents such as X-ray results, medical abstract, health insurance policy, prescriptions, and other relevant files that help during an emergency.

This app stores your confidential files using secured protocols, encryption, and layers of authentication, so you can be assured that the information will not be tampered with or stolen by malicious hackers.

The app can help you during an emergency since the health insurance policy and pertinent documents are stored in the cloud, so you just need to pick up your smartphone and head to the hospital. This saves you from the need to take the time to find and collate documents when you really need to focus on providing first aid treatment to your senior parents. Just grab your smartphone, call the ambulance, and assist your parent to the hospital. 

These apps are more than software technology innovations; they are life-saver buddies that serve your family 24/7. With proper use, these apps can alleviate your worries in providing round-the-clock monitoring for your parents who might have a chronic illness, post-stroke, trauma, or other physical ailments. 

These apps are best used when integrated with hardware devices such as sensor monitors, wearables, smartwatches, and 5G-powered smartphones. Doctors, nurses, medical professionals, and caregivers find these healthcare apps revolutionary in the way we deal with medical treatment and monitoring. 

The medical technology field has benefited from the new software apps that have been integrated with medical devices. These apps speed up the analysis of samples and delivery of results. Some examples are scanning and auto-analysis of urine samples and skin rashes. The results from these apps are faster, and doctors can use the insights to verify findings. 

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