Home Care Focus: Housekeeping Assistance
As a family caregiver you are always thinking about what is best for your parent and what you can do to make sure that they live the highest quality of life possible. One element of this is determining if adding home care to their routine is right for them.
Home Care Media PA – Home Care Focus: Housekeeping Assistance
Starting home care for them can help your parent to maintain as much independence as possible while addressing their individual needs and challenges. An in-home senior care services provider can offer a wide range of highly personalized services tailored toward managing your parent’s specific needs. One such service is housekeeping assistance.
Keeping their home clean and neat is a critical element of staying comfortable and healthy, but it can also be challenging for an elderly adult, particularly one who is living with mobility challenges and issues. A home care provider can make this far more accessible for them.
Some of the ways that housekeeping assistance can make a difference for your elderly parent include:
• Save time. Taking care of tasks around the home uses up time that your elderly loved one would likely rather apply to something else. Having a home care provider help them with these tasks gets them done faster, enabling your loved one to do more during the day and have a more fulfilling lifestyle.
• Save energy. Tasks that you make take for granted can be very challenging for an elderly adult, particularly one who struggles with mobility issues, balance problems, or other health challenges. Having assistance with these tasks can save energy, enabling your parent to feel better throughout the day and do more.
• Stay safer. When a senior is struggling with mobility issues, diminished strength and flexibility, or balance problems, housekeeping tasks can put them at risk of injury. Picking up heavy containers of detergent, leaning over to pick up items, and being on damp floors can all increase the chances that they will suffer a fall or other accident. The assistance of a home care provider can ease this risk, ensuring that all tasks are handled properly while guarding your loved one from these accidents and injuries.
Starting home care for your aging parent can be one of the best decisions that you can make for them during your time as their family caregiver. Whether your parent’s needs are extensive and require care and assistance with virtually all of their needs and challenges, or they only have minor needs but would benefit from some support and basic assistance, an in-home senior care services provider can make a tremendous difference in your senior’s life.
By being with your parent on a customized schedule, this care provider can help to ensure that they get all of the services that they need while also keeping you at the forefront of their care routine. This means that your parent is able to stay safe, healthy, and comfortable while also pursuing a lifestyle that is more active, engaged, and fulfilling.
Services such as helping them with their activities of daily living and personal care tasks, providing safe and reliable transportation, and encouraging them to seek out activities throughout the community can help them to maintain more independence and quality of life as they age in place.
If you or an aging loved one are considering Home Care Services in Media 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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