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What Can You Do to Help Your Senior if She’s Worried about Leaving Memories for Younger Family Members?

Senior Care in Coronado CA: Leaving a bank of happy memories behind for future generations is a powerful motivator for most people and possibly your elderly family member feels the same. As her caregiver, you might not understand some of this drive yet, but it doesn't mean that your senior is giving up.

Leaving a bank of happy memories behind for future generations is a powerful motivator for most people and possibly your elderly family member feels the same. As her caregiver, you might not understand some of this drive yet, but it doesn’t mean that your senior is giving up.

 

Senior Care in Coronado CA: Helping Your Senior To Organize Family Memories

 

Try some of these ways to help her to leave her mark on your family.

 

Make a Family Tree Together

Your elderly family member likely has a lot of different stories about family members you never got a chance to meet. Take advantage of all that information and make a detailed family tree together. This helps to preserve some of those stories for even younger family members to read through later.

 

Catalog Photo Albums

While you’re making a family tree, you might find it handy to refer to old family photo albums. But if those aren’t labeled properly or at all, that can be more difficult than it should be. Take the time to go through old albums with your elderly family member and get as much extra information in there as you can.

 

Encourage Her to Write Letters for Specific Family Members

Letters from family members who are no longer with us are extremely powerful, especially if they’re personalized. Your elderly family member might think of this as a journal for the future or she might really like the idea of writing a specific letter for each person. Regardless, it’s a beautiful way to preserve your senior’s words for such a long time to come.

 

Make Video or Audio Recordings

You might want to preserve more than just your elderly family member’s words at some point, however. You can describe speech patterns and the way that she would smile while telling a particular story, but it doesn’t always tell the whole story. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then an audio or video recording of your aging adult sharing a story might well be worth a million or more words.

 

Don’t Wait to Bring Family Members Together

So many families wait to bring their family members together until their elderly family member’s health situation becomes terminal. But if there’s a way to bring the family together before then, try to do so. Those visits, even if they’re short, can be powerful memories later.

Do what you can now with your elderly family member to preserve her memory for future generations, but remember not to rush too much. You’re still enjoying this time with her, too.

 

For more information about senior care in Coronado, 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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