Adult Day Health Care: If your elderly family member hasn’t been to adult day health care yet, she may feel apprehensive about what sorts of services and activities are going to happen there.
Your Senior Has Help with ADLs
ADLs, or activities of daily living, are activities that your senior might be having more difficulty with as she ages. These are activities such as preparing meals and eating, getting dressed, showering, and more. These are activities that your senior may realize she needs help managing, but still find embarrassing to ask you or other family members to help her to handle. At adult day health care, your senior can get help with these activities without feeling embarrassed at all.
She Has a Chance to Socialize
Your elderly family member also has the opportunity to meet plenty of other people. Some are close to her own age, but there are also staff members and other people she can interact with during her visit. Each of these opportunities to talk to and to spend time with other people help your elderly family member to avoid isolating herself and they also offer her plenty of engagement. That’s a great way to keep her brain active and firing.
She Can Find Plenty of Activities
Speaking of engagement, adult day care offers plenty of chances for your senior to try something new, to do something she enjoys, or to get a little movement in. Being able to try a variety of different things on a continual basis is wonderful for your senior emotionally and mentally as well as physically. She can be as engaged as she wants to be as often as she’d like.
She’s Got Access to Health Monitoring
Another huge benefit of adult day health care is that your senior has someone there who can help her to monitor any health issues she’s facing. Keeping her blood sugar, blood pressure, or other vital signs in optimal ranges doesn’t have to be a guessing game. When you and your senior know what’s going on with her vital signs more often, that helps you both to know that what she’s doing is either working or needs further assessment from her doctor.
Adult day health care can meet so many of your senior’s needs, especially when you can’t be there with your elderly family member as much as you probably want to be. You’ll feel better knowing that she’s in excellent hands and has plenty of help when she needs it.
Considering help for a senior in Ventura County? Learn more about Adult Day Health Care in Ojai, CA. Call us! 1-805-385-4180
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