Some vaccinations have no side effects; others may cause flu-like symptoms, headaches, stiffness, and arm pain. When it’s distracting enough that your mom cannot do her usual activities, she needs temporary senior care services. What if you’re the one who isn’t feeling well after a vaccination?
How can caregivers help out? Whether your mom is struggling to complete daily activities while her immune system does its thing, or you aren’t feeling helpful after getting a vaccination, senior care makes a difference. Here are some of the available services.
Companionship Helps Her Avoid Stressful Thoughts
Some people worry about reactions after vaccination. Your mom hates the thought of being alone if she does have unusual symptoms in the next day or two.
Hire companionship services and ensure your mom has a caregiver by her side for the next few days. As she starts to feel better, the selected services can taper off. Or, she could decide she wants to keep having someone to talk to when you’re at work.
Help With Light Housekeeping
Senior Care in Seminole FL
Most vaccination side effects disappear after two or three days. Sometimes, the arm pain may last a little longer. Until the pain lessens, it can be hard to push a vacuum around. It can be hard to lift your arm to wipe counters or a shower/bathtub wall.
Caregivers can handle light housekeeping chores like dusting, sanitizing surfaces, and vacuuming. They can mop floors, sweep up crumbs and pet hair, and load the dishwasher. Laundry is another helpful service caregivers provide.
Let Caregivers Prepare the Meals
Your mom isn’t feeling energetic. She can’t imagine cooking a meal when her body aches after a flu shot. Instead of having her cooking healthy meals, hire a senior care aide to cook for her. She can have her caregivers shop for groceries, prepare the meals and snacks your mom requests, and clean up the kitchen after.
Recovery Time With Respite Care
You’ve always been the primary family caregiver after your mom’s stroke. You had to get your shingles shot, and it’s left you feeling miserable. Your arm hurts, you feel feverish, and you’re tired. Until you’re feeling better, you just don’t have the energy to help your mom.
Respite care is one way to make sure your mom has the assistance she needs each day. Have caregivers temporarily take over until you’re feeling better.
Call a senior care expert and ask about respite care services. These temporary services help you or your mom for a short time.
Senior care services are an excellent way to make sure your mom has the necessary care while she recovers following some of her vaccinations. If you’re her caregiver and had vaccinations that have knocked you down, respite care helps there, too. She may enjoy having caregivers and ask to make it a permanent thing.
If You Or An Aging Loved One Are Considering Hiring Senior Care in Seminole, 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.
