Figuring out when it’s time for your elderly family member to have additional help might feel like a moving target. But it doesn’t have to.

Your Senior Isn’t Eating Well or Often

If you’re starting to notice that your aging family member is unexpectedly losing weight or that she doesn’t seem to be eating often, this is a problem. Your elderly family member needs nutrients in order to keep her body running well, but it might be costing her energy and time to make that happen. Senior care providers can take over meal prep for her, making this a lot easier to manage.

Your Senior Needs Help with Personal Care Tasks

Personal care tasks include activities like changing clothes, bathing, and other hygiene tasks. If your aging family member has physical or cognitive challenges that make these tasks difficult, that’s a problem. Keeping your senior healthy involves ensuring that she’s able to be clean and wear clean clothing.

Your Senior Is Having Trouble with ADLs

Activities of daily living include things like personal care and eating, but it can be helpful to look at some of the other ADLs, too. If your elderly family member is having difficulty with mobility, getting to the bathroom on her own, and other issues of functional mobility, then she needs assistance. Functional mobility includes getting up from a seated position and getting out of bed, among other activities.

Your Senior’s Home Is Difficult for Her to Manage

Keeping up with your senior’s household tasks may be taking a toll on her, too. When that starts to happen, clutter can build up, and then her home may become unsanitary and a massive tripping hazard. It’s much better for her to have help maintaining her home than trying to live with the situation that develops.

Your Senior Wants to Age in Place

Your senior’s personal preferences factor into this, too. If your elderly family member is determined to age in place, that means that she wants to remain in her own home for as long as possible. When she’s unable to keep up with all that entails, however, she may be forced into making a decision she doesn’t want to make.

Finding the right solutions for your senior can feel really complicated at times, especially when she’s not happy at the feelings of loss she’s experiencing. Senior care providers can truly help her and you, though, which is the most important part.

If you or an aging loved-one are considering hiring  Home Care Services in Morgan Hill, CA, contact the friendly staff at Home Care Professionals today.
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andy@hcprosonline.com

CEO at HomeCare Professionals

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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