8 Ways To Pamper The Elderly At Your Home

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Old parents are more difficult to maintain than your trophy wife or a spoilt kid. It is often confusing sometimes as their needs are different from ours. Their idea of chilled-out, happy is to wake up, have good bowel movements, complete their crossword and retell stories of their long lost youth on loop. 

Moreover, with many government schemes and financial planning becoming mandatory, when most of the old-aged people already have some sort of financial independence and only seek moral support from their kids. While most people are happy to support their aging parents, there might as well be instances when the parent is reluctant to accept help or make changes.

Trying to help an elderly loved one tends to spring-up lots of issues that people somehow aren’t prepared to address. However, we need to understand how difficult it could be for these fragile people to enter a completely different phase of life and try our best to simplify this whale process. For you, it will require a concrete panning to avoid unnecessary hindrances, and ensuring a smooth flow of stability in your home.

Here are 8 ways to streamline your parent’s life when they get old.

1.       Helping with Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs) and Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)

These are daily life tasks to be kept in mind.

Older adults often first need help with IADLs, which include things like managing transportation, financial stability, shopping, home maintenance, and diet preparation.

Older people’s need for assistance with ADLs and IADLs often determines what kind of housing arrangements a family might consider.

2.       Safety issues

It’s better to be safe than sorry. Creating a safer environment for the elderly includes, addressing issues such as preventing financial vulnerability or financial exploitation, falls, driving concerns, medication, and more. For instance, make sure they have breaks on their wheelchair so that they don’t go racing with other people on the streets.

3.       Medical and health issues

Medical concerns are fairly common during old age. Problems can range from lack of friends and network, criticizing the government for no reason, or just cribbing about the fact that their bodies have become like a boiled vegetable. Most of these older adults also develop chronic conditions that require medications, monitoring, and constant treatment.

Constant illness or certain chronic conditions can cause older adults to lose their cognitive ability to make their health decisions or oversee their medical care. Family members often make decisions in circumstances of a health emergency or mental decline.

4.       Legal and financial issues

Some older adults may lose the capacity to manage certain types of legal affairs. Family members must consider assisting with legal and financial issues. 

Planning and completing the necessary legal paperwork, such as drafting a Will can make it much easier for a family to assist. 

Before drawing up the paperwork, ensure that you conduct a memory test and you replace your parent’s glasses or else your entire inheritance will end up being in the wrong hands. 

5.       Make your house old people friendly

Housing situations often affect the quality of life an elderly person should ideally have. Paying heed to aspects like home safety, movement assistance, timely medication can do wonders in improving their lifestyle. Something as simple as shifting to a new locality or into a new family can bring in a new range of problems, so make sure to keep your parent’s condition before taking any major decision in life.

6.       Helping your older parent thrive on a good quality of life

Give your parents a good life means meeting all the basic needs and also making sure that they spend the rest of their life in a healthy environment. 

It implies considering issues such as social connectedness, purpose, inclusivity, dignity and a group of other oldies to keep company with your ones at home.

It is also essential to learn more about what matters most to the older person, and what kind of things they consider for a comfortable living.

7.       Self-care

The older you grow, the grumpier you get and there is no greater example than this other than grandparents. Irrespective of how sweet they are they can become more fastidious than a teenage shopaholic. Helping an older parent is rewarding but could become a source of chronic stress. It can jeopardize your health, and also affect their ability to care for and connect with their older parents.

CDPAP program is specially designed to offer monetary gains to people who volunteer to take care of older people. Before opting for such a program you must ensure that you approach a legitimate center and if your older one is eligible for CDPAP.

Conclusion

After carefully considering and anticipating all aspects of your life as you grow older, we hope that our planning and suggestions come handy to you.

Written by Megan Taylor
Megan is a beauty expert who is passionate about all things makeup and glam! Her love for makeup has brought her to become a beauty pro at Glamour Garden Cosmetics.