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Skin Care Tips for Beautiful in Your Skin Month

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Senior Care Tips Pacific Beach CAKeeping your elderly parents looking and feeling their best is the most important goal of your senior care plan. Taking care of their skin is a vital part of accomplishing this goal. Skin care is an important part of personal care throughout life, but how you approach it changes as you get older. Senior skin tends to be thinner, dryer, and more delicate than the skin of younger adults, and is more sensitive to chemicals and rough textures. This means you may need to change up your parents’ skin care routine to make sure their skin is clean, healthy, and comfortable.

This June, make refreshing your elderly parents’ skin care routine part of your senior care routine as you celebrate Beautiful in Your Skin Month. This is the perfect opportunity for you to help your parents feel better about themselves and protect them from irritation and potential infection.

Use these tips to make caring for your elderly parents’ skin easier for you and their senior health care services provider:

  • Think healthy. For many people, skin care in their older years means focusing on looking younger. Products are advertised as making the skin “look and feel” younger, or to reveal younger-looking skin. While it is normal to want your skin to look fresh and young, this should not be the main focus of a skin care routine. Instead, encourage your loved ones to focus on making their skin healthy.
  • Exfoliate gently. Exfoliation removes dead skin cells and helps to loosen dirt and other clogs in the pores. When exfoliating older skin, however, it is important to remember that thinner, more delicate skin is easily damaged, requiring more gentle forms of exfoliation than used on younger skin. Rather than using coarse materials such as ground nutshells, salt, or sugar, try gentler exfoliators such as baking soda.
  • Use natural products. Not only is senior skin more sensitive to potential irritation from chemicals in skin care products, but they may also be more susceptible to health concerns caused by absorption of these chemicals. Use natural products that take advantage of fruit, vegetable, and grain ingredients to nurture the skin and prevent irritation.
  • Wash and moisturize daily. Washing face skin daily is important even if your elderly parents do not leave the home during the day. Make washing your parents’ skin with a gentle cleanser part of your morning and evening routine, and follow up the cleansing with lightweight, alcohol-free moisturizer to nourish the skin and protect against drying and itching.
  • Do not forget the lips. When it comes to facial skin care, it is important to remember that your lips are covered in skin, too. In fact, the skin covering the lips is among the thinnest and most delicate on the entire body. Without care, this skin easily dries out and can crack, split, and become extremely painful. Take care of the lips by gently exfoliating and regularly moisturizing with non-synthetic ingredients. Discourage licking of the lips, which contributes to chapping.

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 Pacific Beach, CA, and the surrounding communities.

Brittnei Salerno

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