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Home Health Care: What Can Your Senior Do to Reduce Stress?

Stress is a huge factor in keeping your senior unhealthy. Learning how to manage it can make everything easier.
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Home Health Care in San Diego CA: Reduce Stress

Home Health Care: Stress contributes mightily to health issues, which means that it has to go.

Aging is difficult enough, so if your senior can figure out how to reduce her stress levels, that can be a powerful way for her to get through the next phase of her life as healthily as possible. Home Health Care providers can be a great help with this.

Make a Conscious Effort to Let it Go

It sounds easier than it is in practice but learning to be able to just let go of certain stressors really is possible. It involves your senior making a conscious choice to let go of some of her worries. If the situation is one that she can’t do anything about, then letting go is all that makes sense.

Try Exercise, Especially Light Exercise

Exercise is tremendously helpful in terms of reducing stress levels. And it doesn’t have to be an exhausting or complicated exercise, either. Yoga, tai chi, or any other types of stretching exercises can help your senior to calm her mind while she also gets in some exercise. Exercise also releases endorphins that can help further with stress management.

Give Journaling a Try

If there are specific issues bothering your senior or causing her stress, like specific health issues or relationships, then journaling might be a good idea. Writing out her thoughts and feelings can help her to work through those emotions and makes it easier to let them go.

Get Help with Household Tasks

Keeping up with tasks that are getting more difficult over time is another possible stressor for your senior. She doesn’t have to do everything on her own and she honestly shouldn’t. Having companion care at home solves a great many of these issues. Caregivers are able to assist her with whatever is becoming difficult while also offering companionship.

Prioritize Rest

If your elderly family member isn’t already, it’s crucial that she prioritizes rest. That’s a lot easier to do when she has companion care at home because she’s able to delegate some tasks that might have kept her pushing herself. Rest is going to help your elderly family member to have the physical and emotional energy that she needs for tackling the rest of her day.

There’s no avoiding stress completely, but there’s also no reason for your elderly family member to be extremely stressed all the time. Finding ways to manage that stress appropriately can help her to relax into this stage of her life and enjoy the time that she has left with the people that she loves. A home health care provider can be available to help ease the stress.

 

For more information about hiring Home Health Care in San Diego, CA, call the friendly caregivers at La Jolla Nurses Homecare who can help your aging parents remain in their own homes, at 858-454-9339. We are a home care agency providing quality and affordable senior care in La Jolla, CA, and the surrounding communities.

Brittnei Salerno

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