

For decades, your mom or dad has managed the household. Your parent has paid bills on time, arranged repair services, and kept rooms organized. Laundry and housework are also household management tasks your parent handled.
Times have changed. Your parent is struggling to keep up with household management. The problem is while it’s hard, your mom or dad also is not ready to let you help out. It’s a problem many families face. Here are four steps you can take to convince them it’s time for assistance.
Explain How Assistance Helps Them Remain Independent
One reason senior citizens don’t want help is the fear of losing independence. Explain how help actually ensures they stay independent. If someone does the laundry, your parent has extra energy for a chore that’s more desirable like gardening. With extra help, your parent will get more done each day and feel more accomplished.
Discuss How Getting to Help Allows You to Feel Proud
Your parent may not want to burden you. If you explain that you’d feel a sense of pride getting to do something that’s truly helpful, your parent may see things differently. Your mom or dad will see that instead of being a burden, helping out allows you to feel useful. You get to put all the lessons you learned from your parents about generosity to good use.
Give Your Mom or Dad Full Control
Instead of jumping in and getting things done, ask your parent what help is needed. Let your parent take the lead. Your parent gets help, but you’re the one taking orders. Your parent can decide what you’re going to do and when you’ll do it. Eventually, your mom or dad may enjoy having you do the work. When that happens, your handed some or all control of household management.
Get Input on To-Do Lists
Have your parent go over everything that needs to be done in the house. Make sure everything is covered. Weekly bill paying and banking, cleaning and laundry, outdoor yard work, and exterior and interior maintenance. Don’t overlook anything. Put down everything from washing windows to cleaning the oven.
Your parent may see the length of the chore list and realize it’s just too much work. With feelings of being overwhelmed, your parent may realize it’s time to let others help.
Once your parent is ready to accept help, you can chip in. You can also look into home care services for routine tasks like vacuuming, dusting, and laundry. Your parent will soon see that caregivers are also there for companionship, transportation, and meal preparation. Help from a professional home care agency is a quick call away.
If You Or An Aging Loved One Are Considering Hiring Homecare in 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.