10 Tips for Elderly Home Care

Many families choose to take care of elderly relatives in their home instead of taking them to a nursing home. However, this type of care involves a series of changes, both at home and in everyday habits and customs in general.

Below, Elly Kleinman, CEO and president of Americare Companies, points out 10 basic tips to help you with the task of caring for an elderly person in your home.

1. Integrate the elderly: Elly Kleinman Americare suggests strengthening family and friendship ties between all members of your family and the older adult. Try to participate in different activities in clubs and integration centers.

2. Help seniors to be physically independent: make sure that the place where they move around in your home is free of obstacles and well illuminated to avoid falls and accidents. Repair broken furniture and use non-slip mats.

3. Take care of their personal grooming: it stimulates them to do their grooming on a daily basis and to care for their skin with moisturizers and sunscreen in case of exposure to the sun.

4. Help them to have a restful sleep: Elly Kleinman Americare indicates that older people sleep a few hours a day and their awakenings can be sudden. Before going to bed, check that the light in the room is low.

 5. Rigorously control their oral health: in the case that the senior uses a dental prosthesis, Kleinman, CEO of the leader home care provider, Americare recommends brushing it after each meal and letting it rest in cold water overnight. In the event that you still have your own teeth, take care to gently brush your teeth and gums with a soft brush with fluoride toothpaste.

 6. Help them to comply with what has been indicated by the doctor: for this, you must make a detailed report with all the treatment the senior must follow. Keep track of medications with each dose and schedule, and avoid self-medication.

7. Kleinman recommends consulting a doctor immediately if you notice it with a depressed and depressed mood.

8. Help seniors with the incontinence by reminding them to go to the bathroom, and make the bathroom suitable for the needs of the senior. Kleinman suggests installing rails for support.

9. Make sure that the senior follows a healthy diet: it is preferable for the elderly to consume light foods with little salt. Give them boiled or grilled food. In this context it is worth mentioning that Americare provides meal prepared by experienced chiefs with the help of nutritionists, to cater each nutrition needs of each individual.

10. Accompany them, listen to them, offer tham your support and, above all, be patient.

If you need a home care provider, reach out to Elly Kleinman Americare Companies, or visit his website for more information.