Personal Care
Medication reminders, health monitoring, help with adherence to special diets, walking and mobility assistance, skin care, bathing assistance, grooming, dressing, feeding and more!
Meal Preparation
For those seniors who live independently in their own homes, preparing food can become time and energy consuming and often seniors neglect to eat properly because they forget to prepare their meals. Home health care providers also assist with the preparation of meals and can provide as much or as little help in meal preparation as each senior needs and works to create a customized service plan for each senior to make sure that they are getting exactly the service they need.
Skin care
The first thing you need to do is educate yourself about senior skin care. Aging skin is more sensitive and susceptible to a lot of skin diseases and conditions. Skin becomes thinner and naturally dryer, making it much easier to damage and dry out. When this does happen, it takes much longer to heal.
This means that senior skin is more prone to irritation, scaling, and infection. Without a proper skin care routine, one may just end up with a variety of problems.
Bathing and grooming
Maintaining good personal hygiene is important as your loved one ages, but it is not always easy to intervene if you feel they are not coping well. Poor hygiene can result in uncomfortable infections and skin complaints, so to avoid this, you or your loved one’s caregiver may have to encourage them tactfully to accept some assistance.
They may be more willing to agree to the support on offer if they realize that it will enable them to retain a level of dignity.
