Are you considering hiring overnight caregivers to help with your elderly loved one? Caregivers can be truly helpful for senior citizens. It is wonderful all they can do for them. If you need help caring for your senior, or they need more assistance than you can provide, learn more about the ways 24-hour home care providers can help.
Give Medication Reminders
Does your elderly loved one have numerous medications they need to take? Maybe, some of them are taken in the evening or right before bed? Others might be taken early in the morning. If this is the case, your elderly loved one may forget to take them. However, if they have 24-hour home care providers, these providers can give medication reminders. That way, your elderly loved one is taking the medications they are supposed to take, at the right time and in the correct dosage.
Handling Personal Care Tasks
24-Hour Home Care in Gulfport FLDoes your elderly loved one need help taking care of their personal needs such as brushing their hair, taking a shower, brushing their teeth, or eating healthier? If so, your elderly loved one might need someone at their house in the later daytime or nighttime to help with their personal care tasks. 24-hour home care providers can be the people that your elderly loved one needs.
Simple Housecleaning
Now that your elderly loved one is getting even older, they may struggle to get housecleaning tasks done. Some of the things that they may need assistance with include:
- Sanitizing
- Organizing
- Taking out the trash
- Doing laundry
- Putting dishes away
- Vacuuming
- Mopping
If there are any basic housecleaning tasks that your elderly loved one would like or needs to get help with, please feel free to contact a senior care agency today. 24-hour home care can help your elderly loved one at any time of the day or night with these tasks.
Preventing Loneliness
Has your elderly loved one been getting lonely recently? Maybe, they made a comment to you about how they don’t have many visitors. It might be that every time you come over to their house, they make a statement about how they don’t want you to leave. It might be more subtle, too. For example, your elderly loved one may call asking if you can come over to help with certain tasks you know they are capable of doing. The purpose may just be so they have someone visiting them. If your elderly loved one needs more visitors, you can always get companion care providers over to their house.
Conclusion
Does your elderly loved one need overnight care providers? If so, then there are many home care services that these providers can offer to them. Some of it may include helping with personal care tasks. Other services may involve cleaning up around the house. These elder care providers may just come over to your elderly loved one’s home to help prevent loneliness, as well.
Sources
https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/aging-place-growing-older-home
If You Or An Aging Loved One Are Considering Hiring 24-Hour Home Care in Gulfport, FL, Please Contact The Caring Staff At Assisting Hands Home Care Today! 727-748-4211.
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Becky Moultrie is Owner and Administrator of Assisting Hands Home Care Serving Pinellas. Guided by a motto to Do Good with Love, she’s well positioned to do just that at Assisting Hands. She has a passion for helping families keep seniors and those who are diabled happy and healthy at home. She serves on a number of boards in Pinellas County including the Pinellas Park Gateway Chamber and Better Living Seniors (BLS), leading the Membership Committee. Annually, she hosts a Silver Santa Party, collecting donations for nearly 100 low income seniors in the county. She attends Blessed Sacrament Church, Seminole where she is an Ascribed Member of the Rosminian Order. When not busy Doing Good in the community, Becky is at home with her husband David & their 4 children, tending to their beehives and digging in the garden.
