Tips for Helping Keep Your Parent’s Home Cooler During Hot Weather
High temperatures can be very dangerous for elderly adults. Experts note that seniors over the age of 65 are at increased risk of suffering serious health complications associated with high temperatures. There are many reasons why elderly adults are more vulnerable to heat, including their bodies reduced ability to regulate temperature, potential effect of medications they may be taking, reduced water levels in their body, and tendency to not have access to appropriate cooling, such as air conditioning.
As a family caregiver, it is extremely important that you take the appropriate steps to protect your parent from high temperatures, including keeping their home cooler.
Senior Care Philadelphia PA – Tips for Helping Keep Your Parent’s Home Cooler During Hot Weather
Use these tips to help keep your parents home cooler during hot weather:
- Make sure that all windows and doors have appropriate weather stripping. This weather stripping helps prevent hot air from getting inside the home, and cool air from getting out.
- Talk to an expert about insulation, and find out if your parents home is properly insulated to protect against the heat.
- Cover south-facing windows and glass doors to help prevent the rays from getting into the home, which leads to radiant heat greatly increase in the temperature of the room.
- Consider having an awning installed over windows or doors on the south-facing portion of the house. These can reduce the amount of sun that gets into the home by 80%.
- Further diminish the effects of the sun by adding temporary reflectors to the windows. Aluminum foil taped over pieces of cardboard and tucked between the window and the screen are a fast, easy, and inexpensive way to reflect sunlight so it does not get into the house.
Starting senior care for your aging parent can be one of the best decisions you can make for them during the course of your caregiver journey. A senior home care services provider can be there with your aging parent on a customized schedule that is right not just for their needs, but also the level of care you already give them.
This means your senior can pursue a lifestyle that is as independent and fulfilling as possible, while also addressing their challenges and needs in the ways are right for them. Through a set of highly personalized services designed with your aging parent in mind, this senior care provider can help your parent stay safer, healthier, happier, and more active throughout their later years. As their caregiver, this can give you tremendous peace of mind knowing that they have everything they need both and when they are with you, and when they are not.
If you or an aging loved one are considering Senior Care Services in Philadelphia 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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