Reading: Every May is also Get Caught Reading Month.

This is typically a celebration that focuses on helping children to learn to enjoy reading, but it’s a fantastic celebration for people of all ages, including your senior.

Reading Has Huge Benefits for Your Senior

Reading regularly has huge benefits for everyone, including your senior. It can help to reduce stress and may help to improve her memory. People who read more often have better decision-making skills, which is important for your senior to have as well. There may be other benefits for your elderly family member, too, like helping her to learn new and interesting facts on a regular basis.

Reading Might not Be as Easy for Your Senior as in the Past

The biggest barrier to reading more often might be that your senior is experiencing difficulties now that she didn’t experience in the past. Her eyesight may have changed or it may be difficult for her to hold books for as long as she wants to in order to read. There are a lot of ways that you can help her to work around these issues, like finding large print books or audiobook versions of her favorite books. eBooks read on a tablet can be easily downloaded from the library, too.

Reading More Can Help Your Senior to Meet New People

There are lots of ways to incorporate socialization with reading, although that might not sound possible at first. Book clubs, either in person or virtual versions, are a great way to meet new people just about anywhere. Libraries often hold events, too, which makes them a fantastic place for your senior to spend some time. If transportation is an issue, then hiring elder care providers to drive for your senior can be an easy solution.

Help Your Senior to Make Reading a Priority

When reading is easier and is something that your elderly family member enjoys, she’s more likely to turn to that when she wants to relax or have some quiet time. Look at the challenges she faces with reading and find out what might help her to overcome those challenges. Perhaps it’s a ride to the bookstore or library, or maybe it’s that your elderly family member prefers to have someone read to her. Whatever the solutions are, see if there’s a way to implement them.

Reading helps your senior to learn new things, it sparks her creativity, and it can be really entertaining to get sucked into another world for a little while. Those are great reasons for her to get caught reading.

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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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