Managing Healthcare - Tips & Products ACCESSIBILITY TIPS: MANAGING HEALTHCARE When you are aging or have a chronic illness or disability, managing all doctor's appointments, and monitoring all the details of your health care can be overwhelming. Let the tips and products in this section make managing your healthcare easier. Tips & Products: Managing Healthcare     Input search text       Keep your balance when loading the dishwasher   If you have a tendency to lose your balance... Bladder and Bowel Problems   Read how Shelley overcame bowel problems and "survived" her colonoscopy despite severe mobility issu.. Record health care changes in binder   When several family members are caring for a loved one... Independent Living Centers provide help and resources   If you need help finding resources or developing disability living skills, your local ILC... Make swallowing medications easier   If you, or someone you love, have trouble swallowing, ask your doctor if... Clean up at sick bed with premoistened towelettes   Premoistened towelettes (packaged baby or hand wipes) can be useful next to the sick bed... Ask for devices that will make hospital stay more comfortable   236 When you are in the hospital, there are several devices that may make your stay more comforta Keep a nylon stocking in your first aid kit   Keep an old, clean nylon stocking or pair of pantyhose in your first aid kit to act as an emergency In an emergency, use pantyhose as a tourniquet or sling   Pantyhose can serve many uses in an emergency -- a pressure bandage to stop bleeding, a support wra Keep urinary tract infections in check with premoistened towelettes   Anatomy makes females prone to urinary tract infections. One way to keep infections in check Give liquid vitamins or medication when in the bathtub   Give liquid vitamins or medications when the person is in the bathtub. Then if... Get copies of all your medical records.   When you have a chronic illness or disability, you want to keep a record of your medical treatment.... Support a patient's head with a travel pillow   To support the head of those with weak necks or little control over neck muscles... Enteric-coated or time release pills/capsules deliver medication slowly   Enteric-coated or time release pills/capsules deliver medication into your bloodstream slowly, exte Difference between an occupational therapist (OT) and a physical therapist (PT)   Recently, a friend needed rehabilitation after surgery and was unclear about the difference between Transport testing & therapy materials with small pieces in a craft or tackle box   Transport testing materials, therapy products, and items with small pieces in a container like a Numb area with ice pack before removing stitches   When having stitches removed, asked that the site be numbed first using an ice pack. Collect infant urine with a syringe   If you are a parent monitoring an infant's urine output, a disposable diaper and a syringe or eye d Give favorite recipes to friends to prepare meals for you at home after hospitalization   When my co-worker was ready to return home from a long hospitalization, we wanted to prepare meals Relax with seed filled eye pillow   If you have to have an MRI or other test that will have you anxious or lying down for a long time,     1 2 Next

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