As an adult child, you may help your senior mom or dad a lot throughout the days and weeks. However, you may slowly realize that your help is not enough and they may need someone like home care assistance providers to come in a few times every week to help them manage a routine and their household. Getting to this point in life can seem hard, and challenging, and you may feel a little lost when bringing up this topic to your senior mom or dad.
So, here is what you can do when you think your loved one needs home care assistance part-time or full-time.
Understand How Severe Things Are
One of the most important things you need to start with is simply observing your senior mom or dad. They may need different levels of care based on how independent they still are or what is going on around them. If they are struggling with Dementia and wandering off they may need something like 24-hour care, however, if they are mostly fine and just need help with basic household chores, home care assistance can be enough for them. If they need help with medication management or something more then this requires a skilled nurse. So, the very first thing you can do for your loved one is evaluate where they are at and what their needs are in life. This should be done without judgment and with an open heart.
Understand The Challenges
It can be easy to assume that your loved one needs help with everything, but frankly, that is not true for many seniors. Instead of hiring someone based on what you think your mom needs help with, you need to start by asking what your mom needs help with. Chances are she is fine on her own but there may be things that she needs more help with that she does not want to talk to you about. She may need help getting in and out of the shower, changing in the mornings, or just doing a load of laundry. These are all simple yet very different things and you should hire home care assistance based on what your loved one needs. This is also something the right home care assistance provider will ask your loved one when developing a wellness plan.
Make a Plan
Once you have decided this is the path to go, you both need to sit down, talk, and make a plan. You can’t just spring this on your loved one because they may see it as a threat to their independence and they may fight you on the idea. You need to talk to them about this openly and not only create a plan to get them on board, but create a list of needs and wants to go with a home care plan. This means you need to look at what a senior wants when it comes to help and then also a list of wants when it comes to the type of person they are willing to work with. This will make finding the right home care assistance program or person so much easier.
If you or an aging loved one are considering Home Care Assistance Services in Goodlettsville TN, please contact the caring staff at Senior Solutions Home Care. (615) 307-4509
Senior Solutions Home Care is a Trusted Home Care Agency serving Nashville, Brentwood, Nolensville, Gallatin, Hendersonville, Smyrna, Murfreesboro, Mount Juliet, Lebanon, Goodlettsville, Davidson County, and surrounding areas.
Over the years, we have expanded, providing service in all 95 counties throughout Tennessee, and we now have a growing presence in Georgia.
Senior Solutions is recognized as a top 5% independent agency and a three-time Inc. 5000 honoree in 2018, 2019, and 2020. These types of awards matter to us because they show growth in our goal of eventually touching a million lives. We’re excited to continue that growth and to touch even more families with our commitment to quality care!
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