How many turist go to Snowdonia and have an accident every year? Common thinking is that we are more likely to be injured climbing than being at home. However, all Ysbyty Gwynedd admissions don’t come from the mountains. It doesn’t matter where that injury comes from, we all end using Public Health Services.
Sometimes it takes a couple of days to recover but unfortunately it isn’t always the case and you end being in hospital for months. Changing your life from being climbing mountains, or just being in your living room at home watching TV, everyday to. In this period of time you will find a big range of professional looking after of you 24/7, bringing breakfast for you, doing exercises and all the kind of activities that you used to do by yourself ebveryday getting a different routine.
After being in hospital for over 3 months. What changes have you suffered in your life? Have you generated new habits?Phillipa Lally’s study shows, that on average, it takes 66 days to generate a new habit.
What happen with lonely ederly people who stay in hospitals for a long period of time, their new relationships, new activitives, the lack of doing things by theirselves, when they are mentally and physically ready to go home?
Some of them actually enjoy being in this hospitals, they have their friends there. However this new habit is consuming NHS resources and stafs. What are the options for them?
– The British Red Cross offers services such as befriending networks, social activities and support with wheelchairs, transport or shopping.
– Men’s shed where you can learn new skills.
– Arfon Community Link supports with a wide range of activities as walking, meditation groups, art classes or gardening groups.
Wouldn’t be nice to rearrange meetings with the friends you met in hospital enjoy your time with them and perhaps meeting new people?
If you know more services where adults can benefit from, please do not hesitate to comment them bellow.
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A person is free to go, “flying”, love their life. After an accident, they were locked up in the hospital, mentally dismayed, cramped, sad. But the hospital has many new services. This makes the patient more comfortable and the disease is reduced quickly.
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This is such an intriguing phenomenon that I doubt has been looked into a lot. One thing that strikes me is that patients will have to adapt back into their previous environment, and thus may go back into the same routine that led them to potentially to be hospitalised, if applicable. I have found an article that looks into alcohol-based traumatic head injuries (THI), due to habitual misuse of alcohol (Dikmen et al.,1995). However, the article only suggests to have an intervention in the first week of returning home, but not how patients were advised on how to do so or any particular help. It may be useful if the same resources that help provide patients in-hospital can help patients after as well, to hopefully reduce the number of hospitalisations due to alcohol-based injuries.
References:
Dikmen, S. S., Machamer, J. E., Donovan, D. M., Winn, H. R., & Temkin, N. R. (1995). Alcohol use before and after traumatic head injury. Annals of emergency medicine, 26(2), 167-176.
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Some countries like Germany and Denmark have shared accommodation where elderly people and young people live together. This came about because many young people could not afford housing and many old people were lonely. So a system was created whereby younger people were allowed to live in care homes for a low price as long as they socialised with the elderly people. This reduces isolation and depression for the older people living in care. It is also beneficial to both groups and is cheaper for healthcare services.
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