Is your mom keeping secrets? As adults age, there are often things they don’t tell their kids. Here are six things that your mom may not be telling you.
To Have Someone Helping Her on Shopping Trips
Your mom doesn’t like shopping alone. She finds it difficult to make a payment at the register. If a store uses self-checkouts and no registers are open, your mom cannot figure it out and won’t buy things.
Is she comfortable driving? Your mom may not like to drive anymore, and she’d rather wait until you can drive her. With an in-home care aide, she has someone there to drive her to stores, help her at the checkout, and carry bags into her home.
To Stay in Her Current Home
The idea of moving to your home, another family member’s home, or a retirement community worries your mom. She doesn’t want to move, even if her health changes. Ease her mind by discussing the benefits of in-home care as a way to age in place.
To Be as Independent as Possible
Your mom likes doing things on her own, but now and then she needs a helping hand. Independence isn’t something she needs to give up. Her caregivers can help her remain independent by offering just enough supportive care without taking over.
To Have Frequent Visits From Family and Friends
Your mom sees people every few weekends, but it’s not enough for her. She wishes that her grandchildren and children would stop by more often. She’d love to have people staying for dinner at least once a week.
To Not Have to Do Her Laundry
Her basement laundry room is harder to get to on days her arthritis is acting up. Your mom finds her arthritis is often acting up. She can have a caregiver available to do her laundry for her. Plus, her caregiver can handle other more challenging tasks like changing the sheets on her bed and swapping damp towels for clean ones.
To Have Someone Else Cook Her Dinners
After decades of cooking for her children and spouse, your mom is sick of cooking. She cannot stand the thought of cooking for herself. Instead, she heats a frozen pizza to last a few meals. Or, she heats a can of soup, makes a quick salad, or orders takeout.
She’d love to have someone else cooking for her for a change. That’s another benefit of in-home care. Caregivers can talk to your mom about what she wants to eat each week, inventory her pantry, and take your mom shopping.
When your mom is hungry, her caregiver can prepare the meal or snack that your mom requests. She has company while she eats. After the meal, her caregiver cleans up the dining room and kitchen.
Do these services sound like things your mom needs? Caregivers can provide companionship, transportation services, and more. Talk to an in-home care specialist to get started making the necessary arrangements.
If you or an aging loved one are considering in-home care in Brookline, 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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