Benefits of ADL Assistance from Senior Care Providers

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How is your elderly loved one doing with their activities of daily living? As many senior citizens get older, they often need more and more help with ADLs. If this is something that your elderly loved one needs, you don’t have to worry. You can hire senior care providers to help them out. There are many benefits of receiving ADL assistance from professional senior care providers. Learn more about how these providers can help your elderly loved one starting today.

Dressing Needs

One of the aspects of daily living that senior care providers can help your elderly loved one with is getting dressed and undressed. However, there are other benefits that senior care providers can offer to your elderly loved one in this area. Some of these benefits include:

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  • Choosing proper clothing for the weather
  • Zipping pants or shirts
  • Buttoning shirts or coats
  • Washing laundry
  • Making sure your elderly loved one isn’t wearing the same clothes repeatedly

If it seems that your elderly loved one needs help with any of these things, hiring senior care providers may be the best choice.

Bathing Needs

Your elderly loved one might need help with bathing tasks, too. Some of the ways that senior care providers can help with this include:

  • Brushing their hair
  • Cleaning their nails
  • Helping with teeth care
  • Washing their body and hair
  • Choosing proper soaps for body and hair
  • Installing safety equipment in the bathroom
  • Making sure your elderly loved one takes regular baths or showers

If your elderly loved one needs help in these areas, a senior care provider may be the best person to offer this help.

Other Needs

Senior care providers can help your elderly loved one with other needs, too. Some of these needs include:

  • Eating (cutting foods up, meal preparation, cooking, and feeding them)
  • Continence (changing Depends, cleaning up after accidents, and reminders to take incontinence medications)
  • Toileting (sitting down and getting up from the toilet, using the bathroom at regular times, and making it to the bathroom safely)
  • Mobility (moving around their home, improving balance, stretching, and mobility help in public)

If you believe your elderly loved one needs help with these things, hiring senior care providers sooner rather than later could be beneficial.

Conclusion

These are some of the benefits that your elderly loved one could receive when getting ADL assistance from senior care providers. Talk to senior care providers to get services for your elderly loved one today.

Sources
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK470404/

If you or an aging loved one are considering senior care in Escondido, CA, please contact the caring staff at Innovative Healthcare Consultants today. Call us at (760) 731-1334.​​

Published by Nita Vijh-Fautier

Nita understands and respects the desire of the aging population to live independently in their own home and strives to have her company support them with our core expertise in this very important goal. Nita has spent a decade of her life dedicated to the care of her mother as well as remotely assisting in caring for her in-laws who resided in Paris, France. Nita brings to Innovative empathy, compassion, commitment and dedication to serving the elderly and aging population. She has hands-on experiences dealing with all aspects of providing care to the aging population. She has a keen understanding of myriad issues that come along with caring for our aging adults. She has a keen understanding of myriad issues that come along with caring for our aging adults. She has effectively dealt with and mediated family dynamics, medical providers as well as insurance and other aspects of providing care. She is also committed to creating an enriched work environment where our staff of Caregivers are supported in their effort to provide the most optimal care to our senior population. Nita has a Masters in Communication from the University of Dayton (4.0 GPA) and her paper was published in the Health Communication Journal. She has a Bachelor of Science in Human Development and a diploma in Advertising and Marketing. She has attended several personal and professional development courses such as Landmark Forum and UPW with Tony Robbins. She has also completed a course in Business Mastery with Tony Robbins. Nita is a nature enthusiast, an avid traveler, enjoys cooking and dabbling in various cuisines, and learning about other cultures. She speaks multiple languages and enjoys movie nights.

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