
By Michael Morse
我们回应的更困难的呼叫之一是检查一个独自生活的老人的福祉。911次呼吁经常来自一位儿子或女儿对他或她没有听过的老年父母偶尔。有时,呼叫者来自州。偶尔,我们被派遣的人要查询的人超出了援助。我们永远不知道要期待什么。
There is far more to this response than making sure the person at the address is breathing. Family politics often come into play. In many cases, it is extremely difficult for a son, daughter, or any other concerned person to confront an elderly individual and assess his ability and or willingness to care for himself. There are safety concerns to consider, depression worries, hygiene issues, and potential substance abuse problems. At times, friends and families depend on strangers to enter a person’s home and make an unbiased assessment. Very often, the emergency medical services (EMS) engine company are those very strangers. There is no protocol that makes our job easier when responding to a person’s home to check his well-being. No reasonable person would condemn a fire company for simply making sure the person at the address to which it was sent is alive. However, there are always those pesky ethical concerns to consider along with the very real possibility that it just may be us who someday must rely on others to help us.
令人不舒服,因为它可能是将自己注入另一个家庭的内部挣扎,克服你的不情愿往往可以提供绝望的人,以急需的救济。当我们检查一个人的福祉时,我们还可以确保家中没有明显的安全问题。检查新鲜食品的可用性,观察个人清洁和卫生,并确保任何宠物都得到很好的照顾。这个人的责任和未来福祉并不依赖于我们。通过报告我们的调查结果,关注问题的专业知识的机构可以做出适当的通知,然后跟进。没有什么是完美的,我们只能在复杂的系统中控制我们的角色。然而,通过做好我们的工作,有可能大大增加的人的好结果。
有时,呼吁一个健康检查by the patient himself. These requests come disguised in many different. Some of the most common ways are to check a blood pressure, assess lightheadedness, evaluate a medication issue, or determine the cause of general weakness. It’s not easy growing old, and even in the best of situations, it is often lonely. Loneliness breeds fear, and fear leads to a host of medical symptoms.
我们每个人都有(或者)父母。我们大多数人都很幸运,并将与他们一起生活,经历他们的过渡到旧时代。它是从父母到孩子的权力的微妙转移,很少顺利。我们担心他们;他们担心我们。随着多年来,我们常常看到他们的下降,而他们经常拒绝。它永远不会容易成长而旧,但它肯定会击败替代方案。独立丧失对老年人来说是一个非常真实的恐惧,并且他们是独立的越长,他们易于放弃。老年人和关心他们的人赚了很多911个电话,而不是因为他们喜欢有一个宽敞的消防员来访,而是因为他们发生了一些事情,他们害怕。经常,他们的恐惧是有效的。
失去力量,平衡和控制是成长旧的一部分,但绝不使损失变得容易。递减健康随着年的增加而携手并进,而且没有求助于家庭的帮助与失去年轻人的眼睛突出的地方有很大关系。不言而喻,我们尊重和尊严地对待所有患者。消防部门EMS带有卓越和能力的传统。在许多情况下,消防部门对老年人的独立性至关重要。
每天,消防机组人员回应911呼吁寻求帮助,以获得可能看起来微不足道的原因,而是对人们称呼,这意味着世界。每次被称为彻底的工作时,世界都变得更好。
Michael Morse是一个前船长,有普罗维登斯(ri)消防部门(PFD),一个作者和一个受欢迎的专栏作家。他在PFD的发动机有限公司中服务于PFD的发动机有限公司和梯子有限公司在救援有限公司和救援有限公司队长的救助二氧化碳和救助公司队长之前为10年。
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