Caring for Senior Parents with Different Needs

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:

·         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.

·         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.

·         Specialized Home Care - Visiting Angels Newton/Canton offers a wide range of specialized home care services through our LifeCare Navigation^TM Program. Caregivers can assist one or both of your parents with:

o   Alzheimer’s or dementia care

o   Ready-Set-Go Home hospital-to-home transitional care

o   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.

·         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.

·         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.