Keeping your elderly family member well-fed may feel like a losing battle for you. Having help from elder care services can do a lot more for your senior’s nutritional health than you might have thought.

Dealing with Groceries

Groceries can be difficult for able-bodied young people to manage on a regular basis. For an aging senior with health issues, groceries can be even more complicated. It takes a lot of time and energy to make a list, get to the store, and then shop and put it all away. If your elderly family member doesn’t drive any longer, that complicates everything even more.

Cooking When it’s Just Your Senior

Few people enjoy cooking just for themselves. If your elderly family member is used to cooking for more people, she may even find that she feels wasteful if the food doesn’t get eaten quickly. That might mean leftovers piling up and boredom for your senior when she’s eating the same thing for several days in a row. Having someone else take over the cooking can help with that issue.

Relying Less on Processed Foods

One of the ways that your elderly family member might get around cooking for one is by relying on processed foods, convenience foods, or even fast foods. These can all be edible, but a steady diet of these types of foods is often not the healthiest option for your elderly family member. There’s usually a good bit of salt, sugar, and other ingredients that she might need to limit.

Eating Meals Alone

If your elderly family member lives alone, she’s likely eating meals alone, too. In the past, she may not have had to do that very often and she may have avoided eating by herself. Having someone else there who can help her to prepare meals and sit with her as she eats can be incredibly comforting for her.

Eating as Often as She Should

Managing the frequency of her meals may also be something that’s more difficult for your elderly family member now than it used to be. When she’s got help with all of the details involved in making sure she’s got healthy food choices regularly throughout the day, it’s going to be a lot easier for her to stick to a meal schedule.

Elder care providers can be a huge help to your senior when it comes to getting the nutrition that she needs. They can take over the tiny details that have become more complicated for her.

If you or an aging loved-one are considering hiring Elderly Care in Sunny Vale, CA, contact the friendly staff at Home Care Professionals today.
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Andy Howardis a Bay Area Native who holds a BA in Political Science (University of Colorado at Boulder, ’97). After college Andy worked in the surging tech industry.His Grandmother however, would suffer a significant decline in health and ultimately needed in-home care. The experience of a loved one depending on outside help to age in place proved to be pivotal for Andy as he left the tech industry in 2002 for an opportunity in the home care world with a large provider. After having success in home care, but being frustrated by corporate constraints Andy founded HomeCare Professionals in 2005.He methodically built the company one client at a time by focusing on hiring quality caregivers to ensure positive outcomes. Currently Andy serves as the CEO of HomeCare Professionals and is also highly active in the non-profit organization California Association of Health Services at Home (CAHSAH) which advocates for a higher standard of in-home care for those who wish to remain living at home in California.

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