Quality Sleep Tips for Your Elderly Loved One
A lack of sleep can cause many health issues for your elderly loved one. It can cause physical, mental, and emotional health issues. If your elderly loved one is having difficulties sleeping, it is important to help them fix this problem. There are many things that you and senior care providers can do to help your loved one get better quality sleep.
Increase the Amount of Exercise They Do
Senior Care in Chester, PA: Better Sleep Tips
If your elderly loved one is having difficulty sleeping, you should encourage them to do more exercises. Research shows that exercise can help people to overcome insomnia and other sleep disorders. However, it is important for your elderly loved one to exercise at the right time of the day. Some people will get tired after exercising. If this is the case for your elderly loved one, they should exercise in the evening. However, others will get energized after exercising and tired hours later. If this is how it works for your loved one, you and the senior care provider should encourage them to exercise earlier in the day or in the afternoon.
Limited to No Caffeine
If your elderly loved one is a big caffeine drinker, this could be one of the reasons why they aren’t getting the best sleep. Caffeine can keep your elderly loved one up at night or make it take much longer for them to fall asleep. You and your loved one’s senior care providers should encourage them not to drink caffeine. If they are going to have caffeine, have them drink it earlier in the day, so it isn’t still affecting them when it is time to fall asleep.
Nap Time Schedule
If your elderly loved one feels they must take a nap, like many elderly people do, it is important that they do this on a schedule. For instance, if your elderly loved one currently takes a nap at 3 in the afternoon, but they want to go to bed at 9 p.m., they are likely to have a difficult time doing that. You can help them to schedule their naps. If they get up at 6 a.m., a good nap time might be around 12:30 p.m. This way your elderly loved one can still go to bed at a reasonable time without being too awake due to taking a nap.
Conclusion
Is your elderly loved one having a difficult time falling or staying asleep? Many family caregivers and professional senior care providers find that the elderly person in their life has insomnia or another sleep condition. Even if your elderly loved one doesn’t have a diagnosed sleep condition, they may still be having a tough time getting quality sleep. With the tips above, you can help your elderly loved one to start sleeping better at night. You can help them to fall asleep quicker and stay asleep longer, as well.
If you or an aging loved one are considering Senior Care in Chester, PA please contact the caring staff at True Direct Home Health Care today.
Sources
https://www.sleepfoundation.org/articles/aging-and-sleep
Doc, as he is called by everyone - staff, patients and clients - first experienced home health care and hospice care while as a colleg student at King's College as he cared for his mother every day while she first battled COPD and then lung cancer. It was during this time that he came to understand that caring for a patient was more than just clinical expertise.
"Admittedly, my strongest attribute is my communication skills and the simple fact that I love to help people. Even the smallest thing you can do for someone really can mean so much to them long term. In fact, it could change them forever. That's what providing quality personal home health care should be all about."
In his spare time, he cooks for homeless shelters and children's music and arts events. He also is highly involved in his local youth sports soccer academy as a coach and Board member.
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