Tips for Stocking Your Senior’s Freezer
This is the perfect opportunity for you as a family caregiver to find creative and useful ways to integrate frozen food into your daily routine with your senior. Frozen food can be a healthy and delicious way to boost your senior’s daily nutrition and ensure they get the varied and balanced diet they need to keep their body strong, function at their peak, and protect their health. As a family caregiver, frozen foods can also mean stocking their freezer with delicious, homemade meals they can quickly and easily reheat for meals that are fast without turning to fast food.
Elder Care Chester, PA: Freezer Meals for Seniors
Use these tips to make stocking your senior’s freezer a streamlined and beneficial addition to your caregiver efforts:
● Set aside time every week or two to plan the meals you want to prepare for your family. This helps to make grocery shopping and preparation faster and easier
● Carefully go over every recipe you are going to make and write down the ingredients so you can see where these ingredients overlap. This allows you to buy in bulk to save money and avoid the hassle of backtracking while grocery shopping. This can also help you to see where you will have extras of ingredients so you can plan further meals or supplemental snacks to use up those ingredients
● Double or triple recipes so you can maximize preparation and cooking time. You can then take these extra servings and freeze them so your parent can have a stocked freezer
● Carefully label all food going into the freezer with what it is, when it was prepared, and how to properly warm it back up
● Divide meals into individual servings before freezing them to avoid the need to prepare an entire dish and then freeze it again
Independence and autonomy are important concepts for your elderly adult, and they can also improve your caregiver efforts. Helping your parent to maintain more of their independence and feel so they have greater control over their own life enhances mental and emotional health and well-being come and enables them to take on more of their own tasks, which eases your schedule and reduces your stress. Starting elder care for your parent give be a fantastic way to support this independence. An elderly home care services provider can offer a wide range of highly personalized services, specifically designed to help your parent manage their challenges and needs in the ways that are right for them and pursue a lifestyle that is active and engaged as they age in place.
If you or an aging loved one are considering Elder Care in Chester, 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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