Understanding the Importance of Personal Care at Home
Elder Care: As your parents get older, they want to age at home, but they need help.
You’re not sure you can invest the necessary time to help them out, but you also don’t want them to struggle. If you haven’t looked into elder care services, it’s time to consider their benefits.
Elder Care in Ardmore PA: Personal Care at Home
Have a Trained Professional Helping With Housework
Your parents no longer have the strength or stamina to clean the home the same way they used to. Your parents can’t carry the vacuum upstairs, so they stopped vacuuming bedroom floors.
Hire caregivers to clean for them. Light housekeeping chores like vacuuming and mopping, laundry and linen changeovers, and dusting and wiping down surfaces are available from personal care at home services.
Someone Is There to Help With Personal Care and Grooming
One of the most challenging parts of aging is realizing you don’t bend like you used to. When flexibility diminishes, it makes it hard to cut toenails, apply moisturizer to the entire body, and reach up to wash your hair.
Arthritis pain and stiffness can make it hard to floss your teeth, button a shirt and pants, or tie shoes. Professional caregivers help with all of these personal care and grooming tasks.
Your Parents Have Help With Medication Management
Have your parents ever forgotten to take their daily pills? Do they struggle to remember if they took them and end up doubling a dose? Whether they’re going an entire day without having the medications they need or taking too much, it can impact their health.
Caregivers can remind your parents when to take their next dose. They’ll also have help tracking when refills are needed.
Elder Care: Meals Are On Time and Meet Their Needs
What do your mom and dad eat when you’re not around? You might learn they eat canned soups, frozen pizzas, and microwave meals. These aren’t always the healthiest options.
With the help of personal care at home aides, your parents can have caregivers cooking their meals and snacks. They’ve told their caregiver they’d love to have chicken pot pie later in the week. That goes onto the weekly menu, and the caregiver prepares it for them.
Caregivers can help your parents plan a shopping list, shop for groceries, and put everything away. Your parents eat homemade meals, and they even have the option of having their caregivers join them for the meal.
Elder Care: Your Mom and Dad Enjoy Companionship
Your parents’ social circles may be smaller than they used to be, but it doesn’t have to impact their social needs. Companion care provides your parents with a caregiver to join them for a walk, play games with them at home, or join them on a shopping trip.
Call a personal care at home specialist after talking to the rest of your family and getting a list of questions. You’ll get answers regarding the available services, prices, and how to schedule caregiver visits. Talk to a home care agency to get started.
If you or an aging loved-one are considering hiring Elder Care in Ardmore, PA, please contact the friendly staff at Suma Home Care. (484) 206-4544
Ibrahim recently completed a Professional Certificate in Management; He is currently pursuing a Masters in Business Administrations (MBA) at a prestigious university in the UK.
With their passion for helping others and a strong background in customer services and clinical care, Ibrahim and his wife started assisting individuals in their homes.
Since started and operating Suma Home Care in 2010 in the basement of their home, Suma Home Care has provided professionals who work endlessly in providing clients with the highest quality of care, while enabling clients to maintain dignity, comfort and safety in their homes.
Suma Home Care, serves four counties in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Chester, Montgomery and Philadelphia. Ibrahim is firmly connected to his local community and is always looking for ways to give back whenever the opportunity presents itself.
Ibrahim enjoys spending time with his wife and children, travelling and enjoys sports.
Mariama Suma-Keita BSN RN
Born in Sierra Leone west Africa, relocated to America in 1999 from a civil war and settled since in the U.S.A as a Naturalized citizen Graduated from National school of nursing with an associate , and completed BSN in Nursing from Immaculata University graduated with Honor roll Alpha Lambda sigma, After escaping the war served as a refugee nurse in Gambia and Guinea to other displaced refugees before coming to America.
In the states started in Homecare then then transition into hospital, worked in Jefferson hospital as a Registered nurse on Tele and general medsurg floor, also worked in Einstein hospital as an oncology transplant nurse , I realized that I enjoy working with patients so much and believe in quality and compassionate care one at a time dealing with an holistic approach in caring for patients and family in a familiar environment called home , I see the impact and progress when they’re home , it makes them feel relax and progress fast with recovering at home. As a nurse and entrepreneur I understand that dedication to meeting people and families needs is a priority, and able to foster relationships with family and patients that is professional and friendly to help them stay and settled home as a desire.
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