Personal Care Helps Seniors Keep Their Dignity

Seniors face a lot of challenges as they get older, especially if they want to continue living independently. If your senior parent is living alone they may need help with some tasks that are getting difficult for them.

Often when seniors are living alone they don’t want to ask for help, especially if the tasks they need help with are related to hygiene. Showering, getting dressed, and other tasks can take a lot of fine motor skill, manual dexterity, and grip strength. And as they get older your mom or dad may not have the strength they need to do those things safely.

Personal care at home is a service that helps seniors with hygiene tasks, getting dressed, and transferring in and out of bed. Personal care at home allows seniors to maintain their dignity and look and feel their best despite their physical challenges.

It also allows seniors to maintain their independence without relying on their adult children for tasks that they would prefer not to ask their child to help with.

Personal care at home provides compassionate help to seniors with tasks like:

Bathing and Personal Hygiene

A caregiver specializing in personal care at home can help your mom or dad with tasks like bathing, showering, grooming, and oral care to ensure cleanliness and prevent infections. They also help keep your mom or dad safe and reduce the risk of them falling.

When seniors fall at home they often fall in the shower or the bathroom. Having trained professional caregivers helping your mom or dad with showering and bathing can make a big difference in their safety.

It can also make a big difference in their overall health. Seniors need to brush their teeth, use mouthwash, and engage in other hygiene tasks in order to avoid infections.

Dressing and Undressing

Caregivers can help your mom or dad pick out clothes they want to wear and help them with dressing, buttoning things, zipping things, and putting on compression garments like compression socks or stockings.

At night they can help your mom or dad get safely into their pajamas and settle into bed so that they don’t fall or become unsteady on their feet. And because a care provider can bring medications to your mom or dad in bed your mom or dad won’t have to get up in the night to take their medications.

If they do need to get up to use the bathroom a care provider can help them safely walk to the bathroom and back so that they don’t fall stumbling around the hallway or bedroom at night.

Mobility Assistance

Caregivers who specialize in personal care for seniors also can support seniors at home by helping them safely walk, transfer from bed to chair, or use mobility aids like walkers or wheelchairs to prevent falls.

Toileting and Incontinence Care

If your mom or dad needs help with bathroom needs, including toileting, changing incontinence pads, or cleaning up a care provider can help with compassion and empathy so that your mom or dad can maintain their dignity.

If you or an aging loved one is considering Personal Care at Home in Sacramento, CA, please contact the caring staff at Aging Assistant today at (916) 897-4752