Medical issues and appointments are demanding enough for anyone, but seniors are typically facing other challenges at the same time. Home care doesn’t help with medical tasks directly, but elder care providers do play a significant role in helping seniors live their lives peacefully and with as much support as possible.
Transportation Assistance
Getting to and from important appointments is sometimes a huge barrier for seniors, especially when they’re battling health issues. They need the appointments in order to feel better, but may not feel well enough to drive themselves. Home care providers can help with transportation assistance. Because they can be there for seniors during and afterward as well, they can help with mobility challenges along the way. Seniors know that they have the support they need and can relax and focus on what their healthcare providers are sharing with them.
Planning and Preparing Meals
Nobody enjoys cooking when they’re not feeling well and seniors may have more trouble than other people when it comes to eating healthy meals on a consistent basis. Proper nutrition makes a big difference in healing and recovery, too, so it’s vital that seniors have help with planning and preparing meals. Home care assistance can tackle these tasks easily, keeping seniors well-fed and enjoying their food, as well.
Household Tasks
Keeping the house clean and well-organized does a few things for seniors. First, it ensures that seniors don’t have to worry about things like tripping hazards and other problems. But it also keeps the area as hygienic as possible, too. And when seniors don’t have a lot of extra energy to devote to tasks like laundry and vacuuming, there’s someone there who can handle it for them.
Personal Care at Mobility Assistance
Limited mobility because of health challenges is common for seniors. Elder care providers can offer respectful and gentle support with tasks like bathing, changing clothing, and taking care of other personal care tasks. For some seniors, having that extra bit of support is what they need in order to feel more secure while they’re in a vulnerable state.
Emotional Support
Dealing with any sort of health issue is emotionally taxing. Seniors may start to feel isolated and alone, too, particularly if they’re not able to be as involved in the world around them as they used to be. They may even feel a lot of anxiety or worry about whether their health is going to improve at all. Having a friendly home care provider there to offer emotional support and a listening ear is so powerful. Caregivers understand what it is like for seniors to suddenly experience big changes to their health and their daily lives. By offering seniors social engagement, they make it easier to deal with some of the other losses seniors experience.
Dealing with health challenges is never an easy situation, of course, but having help from home care services can do a lot to make the situation more pleasant. Seniors experience better quality of life overall and can still age in place for as long as possible.
If you or an aging loved one are considering home care in Cambridge, MA, please contact the caring staff at PlatinumCare + today. Call (617) 237-0867.
PlatinumCare + was born out of the desire and passion to provide the very best home health care possible in Brookline, Dover, Newton, Needham, Watertown, Weston, Cambridge, Lincoln, Sudbury, Belmont, Boston MA, and surrounding areas.
All with decades of experience, Tim in IT Operations, Support, and Management, Brenda in Client Relations, Healthcare Services & Sales Management, and Anne in Healthcare as a Nurse Practitioner combined their skills to form what is now PlatinumCare +.
As immigrants to the US, all came from backgrounds where Healthcare for aging parents was a responsibility of the immediate family and the entire community. Aging, sick, or terminal community members were cared for physically, emotionally, and financially by family, friends, including strangers! This community approach, Healthcare with a difference, delivered with the utmost love, care, sacrifice, and passion, forms the basis of how PlatinumCare + grounds itself.
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