Are you worried about the safety of a dear family member who lives alone? Perhaps, your elderly mother has started falling frequently. Or, your older father might sometimes forget to take his medicine. If you can relate to either one of these worrisome situations, consider moving your senior relative into a nursing home. If your loved one doesn’t need round-the-clock care, you might wish to put him or her in an assisted living facility. Staying at this type of facility can provide a family member with a sense of independence. On this blog, I hope you will discover valuable tips to help you move an aging loved one into a nursing home or assisted living facility. Enjoy!
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Keeping Your Family Member Safe
Providing Care For An Aging Loved One? Use These Proactive Tips To Help Keep Them Safe
Debbie Rodriguez
Even though you love them fiercely, the day-to-day work of caring for an aging parent is challenging. If the person whom you are providing care for is experiencing memory issues, your job is likely to be increasingly difficult as their cognitive state declines. In addition to providing consistent care for their daily needs, adult caregivers must also take responsibility to ensure that their parents are safe and secure at home. If you are one of the growing number of adult caregivers tasked with caring for an elderly parent, spouse, or loved one, these proactive tips can help ensure a safer experience.
Remove driving privileges
One of the hardest decisions for adult children tasked with caring for an elderly loved one is to know when to consider having their driving privileges removed. Once memory issues begin to occur, your elderly loved one is much more likely to become involved in a traffic accident or become disoriented and unable to navigate familiar streets and areas. While difficult, making the proactive decision to seek removal of their driving privileges may be necessary to help you protect them from being injured or causing a serious injury to someone else. To do this, check with your local driver licensing office or law enforcement agency. Many states have an anonymous process that allows a dangerous driver to be reviewed for possible revocation of their driving privileges.
Install warning devices
Another frequent problem encountered when caring for an elderly loved one with declining memory is when they wander away from their home. Since this can happen in the middle of the night when their caregivers are asleep, adding an alarm or warning device to exterior doors is a proactive way to help prevent this problem. If the home has a security system, it can be helpful to set it to sound an alert when a door is opened or left ajar. If this is not possible, installing an inexpensive warning device that beeps or shrills an alarm when the door is opened is a good idea.
Schedule additional care
Fatigue due to worry and loss of sleep on the part of the adult caregiver can increase the chances of an accident or safety issue occurring when caring for elderly loved ones with memory issues. A good plan for avoiding this problem is to schedule regular days or hours when you can turn the responsibilities of caring for your elderly loved one over to a reputable senior care services aide. These professionals are specially trained to provide expert care and will be able to allow you the have the time to rest and relax before resuming your duties.
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