It might not be easy to convince your aging family member that senior care is a good option for her. But if she’s facing some of these challenges, then hiring home care providers is definitely something to consider. Talk to your senior about some of these areas in which having help could improve her quality of life.

Help with Mobility

Your senior’s mobility is likely to become more of a problem as she grows older. This makes it difficult for her to safely navigate her own home, but it also creates problems elsewhere. Running a quick errand is a lot more difficult when your senior has trouble getting around easily. Home care providers can help your senior both at home and away.

Help with Transportation

Mobility involves more than just your senior’s ability to walk at some point, too. Your elderly family member might have more difficulty driving than you realize. Instead of talking about the issue, some aging adults just stop going anywhere and that’s dangerous. Having senior care providers doing the driving ensures that your elderly family member can still go everywhere she needs to go.

Provide Greater Opportunities for Socialization

Your elderly family member might have been significantly involved in her community or with her friends in the past, but as mobility challenges increase, those opportunities for socializing can slow down. Having help from home care services can enable her to get back to those activities that she enjoyed in the past.

Offer Companionship

Even if your senior doesn’t have a desire to be out and about a lot, she still needs socialization. For senior’s that prefer to stay home more, that might mean that elder care providers are some of the few friendly faces besides yours that they’re able to see. The companionship that these helpers can offer is invaluable.

Perform Safety Checks

Senior care providers have a lot of experience in keeping aging adults safe and they know what to look for in terms of safety issues. They can help you and your senior to spot the areas that need a little more attention now and in the future to help your senior to avoid injury. They can also help to take care of routine tasks, like housework, that can contribute to being safer.

These are just a few of the ways that your senior can benefit from having extra help. You and your elderly family member can explore the other ways that senior care can help her.

If you or an aging loved-one are considering hiring Home Health Care in San Jose, CA, contact the friendly staff at Home Care Professionals today.
Call (866)-940-4855

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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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