How to Make Aging At Home a Reality for Your Loved One
Caregiver Havertown PA
Many elderly adults prefer to live at home, even as chronic medical conditions begin to take a toll. In many ways, living at home can be wonderful for your loved one’s health and quality of life. Home is the place where they feel most comfortable and secure, they are familiar with their neighborhood and town and may even have friends that live nearby. In addition, if they have pets, they may not be able to bring them if they move. For these reasons and many more, it is a great idea to consider helping them age at home and continue living happily in the home they love. For a caregiver, however, this isn’t always easy and can come with many challenges. Fortunately, there are many things you can do as a caregiver to help make aging at home a reality for your loved one.
Read on for a few ideas.
- Share Responsibilities
If you’ve decided that the best option for your aging parent is to have them live at home, you probably have already realized that there are many responsibilities that will fall on you as the caregiver. As you may already know, becoming overwhelmed or stressed while caregiving can be problematic and even lead to health issues for you. For this reason, plan to communicate with siblings, neighbors, or other family members to see if there are any responsibilities you can share. Maybe a trusted neighbor can be responsible for mowing your loved one’s lawn in the summer or a sibling can handle caregiving responsibilities 2 days per week. Whatever your arrangement is, it is a good idea to communicate with the people close to you often, so that you can always get the help you need.
- Consider Home Care
A home care agency can be a great resource to communicate with when it comes to caregiving for an aging parent and striving to have them continue to live at home. Home care agencies can help to provide you with a trustworthy and reliable home care aide. Home care aides can be great helpers to caregivers as they can help with errands, housework, meal preparation, bathing, and companionship. Home care aides can help caregivers get the breaks that they need and can help them to avoid feelings of being overwhelmed and stressed out. Many home care aides form great relationships with the elderly adults that they help.
If you or an aging loved one are considering Caregiver Services in Havertown, PA, please contact the caring staff at True Direct Home Health Care today.
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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