You’ve heard about elder care services from friends and relatives. You question if it’s time to have caregivers helping your mom and dad. How can you tell? What benefits does elder care provide?
Caregivers Are Companions
One area that often is the most difficult as you age is your shrinking social circle. You retire, so you lose daily contact with co-workers. Your friends and neighbors downsize or move to new areas seeking warmer weather, more services, or a lower cost of living.
Caregivers offer the companionship that many older adults start missing long after retirement. Companions are there to talk to, take walks with, or join for a movie afternoon.
Caregivers Complete Routine Cleaning Tasks
Some household chores become a little harder if your bones weaken, your joints ache, or your muscle mass changes. Carrying a vacuum up and down the stairs isn’t easy when you have arthritis in the hips, knees, or ankles. A trip to a basement laundry room can seem impossible.
Caregivers can help with dusting, vacuuming, mopping, and disinfecting. They can do the laundry, change sheets, and make beds.
Caregivers Cook Meals
Are your parents relying more on packaged foods, takeout meals, and frozen dinners? Most of those meals are high in saturated fat, sugar, and sodium. Let caregivers cook nutritionally balanced meals at home. Your parents can have home-cooked meals all of the time with meal preparation services.
Caregivers Drive Your Parents To and From Area Locations
Once it’s not safe for your mom or dad to drive, they don’t have to stay at home 24/7. Caregivers can drive them to stores, area businesses, and medical offices. Caregivers can join them on shopping trips, take them to a local museum, or drive to the beach for a walk along the shore.
Caregivers Remind Your Parents About Appointments and Medications
Your dad keeps forgetting to take his heart medications. It’s not helping him stay healthy, but he simply cannot remember them each morning. Caregivers can remind him and make sure he takes them on time. Plus, the caregiver is there if he has any of the side effects that make it hard for him to complete other activities like showering or walking around his home.
Caregivers can also remind your mom and dad about upcoming appointments. If they need a ride, the caregiver is there to drive them, help them out of the car, and make sure they’re safely escorted into the doctor’s office. When the appointment is over, the caregiver drives them back home.
Make a call. Talk to an elder care specialist about your mom and dad’s daily routine. With a customized care plan, your parents will be safe and happy in their home, even if their health or abilities change as they age.
If you or an aging loved-one are considering hiring Home Care Services in Tolleson, AZ, please contact the caring staff at Blessings for Seniors Companion Care at (623) 594-0819
Blessings for Seniors makes it possible for older adults to enjoy the comforts of their own home for as long as possible. We offer a customized care plan that includes services such as; Hourly Senior Home Care, 24-Hour Home Care, Dementia Care, Personal Care and Companion Care. Also ask us about our Veterans’ Home Care program.
- The Benefits of Swimming for Seniors - November 8, 2024
- It’s National Family Caregiver Day! - November 1, 2024
- Join us in Celebrating Our November Caregiver Birthdays! - October 28, 2024
