Your mom moved into your home, but you still have a full-time job. You can’t be with her all day, but she can’t be alone. Home care provides the solution you need, so how will it work?
You Choose the Right Schedule of Care
When you arrange home care services, you build a schedule that meets your mom’s needs. If she has to have a caregiver the entire time you’re away, a caregiver arrives before you leave and leaves when you return.
The schedules can be adapted to fit in with family caregiver days. If you have a sibling who stops by twice a week for half the day, you can drop the caregiver visits to the other half of the day. If your brother is with your mom every Friday, you can arrange that no caregiver comes on that day.
Pick the Services That Your Mom Needs
What care services are most helpful to your mom? If she needs someone to help her get showered and dressed, personal care services like bathing, grooming, and dressing are important. Does she need someone to walk with her outside, that’s another option.
Elder Care in Pinellas Park FLHome care services also include transportation, housekeeping, laundry, meal preparation, and scheduling. Your mom needs someone to remind her when to take her medications and to order refills when needed. Caregivers can help with that.
Your mom has medical appointments each month, and it’s hard for you to take every day off to bring her. Don’t worry about it. Her caregiver can accompany her and make sure you’re informed about medication changes or any concerns or improvements the doctor noted.
The Caregiver Helps Your Mom
The caregiver’s role is to help your mom with ADLs and IADLs. The caregiver is not there to help you out. If you need someone to do your laundry, housework, etc., it’s important to hire a cleaning service. The caregiver can do your mom’s laundry and clean her bedroom but not everyone’s.
If your mom needs her caregiver to prepare meals and snacks. The caregiver will do so and clean up the dishes after. But, you can’t leave a sink full of dirty dishes from dinner and breakfast and expect the caregiver to do them all for you.
Ask Questions When You Call
Sit down with your mom and any family caregivers and put together a list of questions you all have. Be sure to have that list handy when you talk to a home care advisor.
Home care services match your mom’s needs. Talk to a specialist about your mom’s health, daily routines, and areas where she needs assistance. You’ll get answers to your questions about prices, schedules, and arrangements. Make a call to learn more.
If You Or An Aging Loved One Are Considering Hiring Home Care Pinellas Park, 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.
