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One way that a caregiver can help your seniors feel more in control of their lives and more independent in caring for themselves and their home is by guiding them through their care and housekeeping tasks. Rather than immediately doing these tasks for your aging parents, the care provider can help them to remember what they need to do and how to do it, modify tasks to suit their capabilities, and guide them through each step so that they can enjoy a sense of accomplishment and feel more independent.
Suggest these ways for their caregiver to help your aging loved one feel more in control of their own home:
- Make a schedule. Have the care provider work with your parents to come up with a daily schedule. Take a large piece of poster board and a permanent marker and create a daily schedule with the order that tasks need to be completed and when they should do them. Post this schedule somewhere where it is easily visible so that your parents can see it throughout the day and follow it to take care of themselves and their home.
- Ask leading questions. The caregiver can encourage your parents to remember tasks and participate in completing them by asking leading questions. “Should we wash the dishes now?”, “Do you think your bed needs to be made this morning?”, or “Are you ready to take your shower?” are casual, non-confrontational questions that quickly remind your parents what to do next without making them feel like they are being told what to do.
- Use assumptive clues. Using clues that assume that your parent already knows what to do can be useful in triggering memory of what to do next, encouraging critical thinking, and allowing them to take the initiative of starting tasks that she wants to help handle. Encourage the care provider to do things like handing your senior a sponge after dinner to encourage her to help with the dishes, put a basket of freshly dried laundry next to your parent to encourage help folding, or starting to pull towels out of the closet to signal time to take a shower.
- Modify tasks. Your seniors may not be able to handle all of the tasks of taking care of themselves and their home because of their physical, mobility, or cognitive limitations, but it is possible to modify most tasks to accommodate these challenges and still allow your parents to be involved. For example, let a senior who has difficulty standing or reaching sit in a chair beside the dishwasher and load dishes the care provider hands to her.
La Jolla Nurses Homecare can help your aging parents remain in their own homes, call 858-454-9339. We are a home care agency providing quality and affordable senior care in La Costa, CA, and the surrounding communities."]” data-sheets-userformat=”[null,null,767,[null,0],[null,2,10667209],[null,[[null,2,0,null,null,[null,2,0]],[null,0,0,3],[null,1,0,null,1]]],[null,[[null,2,0,null,null,[null,2,0]],[null,0,0,3],[null,1,0,null,1]]],[null,[[null,2,0,null,null,[null,2,0]],[null,0,0,3],[null,1,0,null,1]]],[null,[[null,2,0,null,null,[null,2,0]],[null,0,0,3],[null,1,0,null,1]]],2,2,null,0]”>For more information about how the caregivers at La Jolla Nurses Homecare can help your aging parents remain in their own homes, call 858-454-9339. We are a home care agency providing quality and affordable senior care in La Costa, CA, and the surrounding communities.
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