Caring for Senior Parents With Different Needs
As loved ones grow older, they begin to need additional care
at home. You may feel overwhelmed and sometimes discouraged about providing for
them appropriately — especially if they have different care needs.
You might look to a live-in senior care facility as an
option, but these facilities may separate your parents to address their
individual care requirements. For a couple who has spent decades together, this
sudden separation can be emotionally distressing and could lead to increased
feelings of depression and social isolation.
In-Home Senior Care Can Help Both Parents
To help your senior parents age in place safely,
comfortably—and together—Visiting
Angels Newton/Canton offers a range of personalized programs to match each
parent’s home care needs, including:
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Companion
Caregiving - Companion care assists with essential tasks your parents may
have trouble completing on their own, including light housekeeping, running
errands, and meal preparation. Companion caregiving can be useful for seniors
who can safely care for their spouses but no longer have time or energy to
devote themselves to their daily activities.
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Personal
Caregiving - A personal caregiver (also known as a private
caregiver) provides all the companion caregiver services plus assistance
with dressing, hygiene, bathing, toileting, and medication reminders. If your
parents want to continue living together at home but need more help with
bathing or using the restroom than their partner can provide, personal care can
be an ideal option.
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Specialized Home Care - Visiting Angels Newton/Canton
offers a wide range of specialized home care services through our LifeCare
NavigationTM Program. Caregivers can assist one or both of your
parents with:
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Alzheimer’s or
dementia care
o
Ready-Set-Go Home hospital-to-home transitional
care
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Safe and
Steady Fall Prevention
o
Social care
o
Palliative care
o
End-of-life care
Whatever your parents’ care needs,
Visiting Angels can find the right program or combination of personalized
programs to support them.
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Alexa
Constant Companion - Constant Companion uses the Amazon Echo voice device
to help seniors facilitate phone or video calls, send and receive messages,
receive medication reminders, read audiobooks, and provide news reports and
headlines. Constant Companion also replaces the need for wearable emergency
devices and can request medical assistance through a voice-activated medical
alert system.
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Respite Care - If
you regularly care for an elderly parent or one of your parents is caring for their
spouse, respite care can provide a much-needed break to avoid burnout and help
maintain personal and healthy relationships.
Get the Right Home Care Services for Both Parents
Helping your senior parents age together safely and
comfortably at home can be challenging, especially when each spouse has
different care needs. If you need help finding the right at-home
living assistance for each parent without separating them, Visiting Angels
Newton/Canton’s senior home care is your best solution.
Our care coordinators can provide a free home care
consultation to discuss the best services and programs to help your senior
parents with their personalized
home care needs. If you're interested in more information about how in-home
care can help your senior loved ones, contact us at 617-795-2727.
Providing Safe, High-Quality Care the Elderly
Deserve
At Visiting Angels Newton/Canton, our priority remains its
caregivers' health and safety and the elderly clients they serve every day. As
an award-winning home care agency in Greater Boston, Visiting Angels
Newton/Canton follows and adheres to the latest health and safety guidelines
issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Despite
the challenges associated with COVID-19, in-home caregivers fulfill Visiting
Angels’ mission of partnering with families to provide essential at-home living
assistance for older adults.
Visiting Angels’ in-home caregivers continue to be homecare
heroes on the frontlines, taking necessary steps to protect elderly loved ones
and themselves and doing whatever it takes to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
If you have a loved one who could benefit from elderly care services
at home, call Visiting Angels Newton/Canton today to schedule a free in-home
consultation. A care manager will work with you to choose the best fit for your
family member and you.
About Visiting
Angels Newton/Canton
Visiting Angels Newton/Canton is an award-winning local home care agency providing high-caliber in-home care services to the elderly and people with disabilities. Countless families have benefited from our in-home dementia care, Alzheimer's care, respite care, live-in and 24-hour care, companion care, transitional aid, and in-home care services in Norwood and Boston area neighborhoods, including Brookline, Canton, Dedham, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Natick, Needham, Newton, Norwood, Roslindale, Stoughton, Upper Back Bay, Watertown, Wellesley, West Roxbury, Westwood, and neighboring communities.
