How Can Home Care Help Your Senior Feel Safe When They are Home

Everyone has had the experience of being unnerved when they are at home alone. Often this comes from hearing a particular news story, watching a frightening TV show or movie, or being alone for the first time in a long time. For many elderly adults, however, not feeling safe when they are home alone is a pervasive issue that negatively impacts their quality of life. As a family caregiver, it is important to help your senior feel as safe and secure as possible at all times. One of the most effective ways you can do this is by introducing home care into their care routine.

Some ways home care can help your senior feel safe when home include:

-Simply being there with them. When your parent has a care provider there, they are not alone. Just having someone in the home with them can ease your parent’s mind and make them feel more relaxed.

-A care provider can help your parent engage their home security system, which can include an actual electronic alarm and monitoring system, or just a system of locks and barriers. The care provider can make putting these into place a part of the routine for the day.

-Providing distraction and engagement that helps your parent keep their mind off their discomfort or fear. This can be particularly beneficial for an elderly adult who is living with Sundowners as a part of their Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia. With this condition, elderly adults tend to get anxious and disoriented as evening approaches.

-Helping your parent utilize resources such as video chat to connect with you to ease feelings of fear.

Sometimes being the best family caregiver possible for your aging parent means knowing when to ask for help.

It is normal to want to do everything for your parent, but this can be overwhelming, and if you have other obligations in your life, you may not be able to handle it all effectively. Reaching out to home care is a fantastic way to ensure your senior gets all the care and support they need while giving you the flexibility and freedom in your schedule you need to handle everything else in your life. This enables you to manage your parent’s care needs in the best way possible and know they are getting the support they need for their other needs as well.

If you or an aging loved-one are considering hiring Homecare in Daly City, CA, contact the friendly staff at Home Care Professionals today.
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Andy Howard CEO at HomeCare Professionals

Andy Howard is 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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