Spending time at adult day health care centers can make a tremendous difference in your senior’s physical and mental health. The assistance that’s available can address a variety of different concerns that you and your elderly family member may have about her daily life.
It’s a Safe Environment in Which to Spend Time
One of the worries you might have about your senior during the day is that she is on her own and may not be as safe as you want her to be. Adult day centers offer safety to your senior as well as helping her to occupy her time. With senior care services, she gets the help that she needs, when she needs it, without being overwhelmed by difficulties at home.
Adult Day Care Offers Plenty of Activities
There are plenty of different types of activities scheduled throughout the day at adult day health care. Your elderly family member has the opportunity to try new activities or engage in ones that are very familiar to her. Sometimes it’s not so easy to have those same experiences in her own home, either because the activity is labor intensive to set up or because of other variables. Having those barriers removed allows your elderly family member to simply have a good time.
Social Interaction Is Key to Mental Health
Without proper social interaction on a regular, ongoing basis, many aging adults find themselves dealing with serious mental health concerns that can be difficult to address. Adult day centers give your aging family member a chance to meet other people and to build friendships that can last for a long time. Being able to spend time with her peers can help your senior to avoid loneliness and isolation, which are incredibly damaging to her mental health.
Your Senior May Sleep Better
Spending time at an adult day center occupies your senior’s body and her mind, and gets her moving, even in small ways. It engages her brain so fully that she may find that on days she goes to the adult day center, she sleeps better and is better able overall to relax. That’s important in helping her to recharge and be able to tackle her daily activities.
Your Senior Can Boost Her Independence
It sounds counter-intuitive but having senior care services helping your senior with the activities that are difficult for her helps her to maintain her independence. That’s because she isn’t wearing herself out with the activities that are more difficult, so she’s able to focus her energy on what she is able to do. It’s important for your senior to understand that accepting help doesn’t mean that she’s losing any of her independence at all.
Knowing that your elderly family member is in good hands when she’s getting assistance from the senior care services available to her can also enable you to focus on what’s important for you to manage at any given time. It’s freeing for both of you to be able to rely on that assistance.
Oxnard Family Circle: Safe, Reliable, Social and Fun!
If you need respite and/or help with caring for your loved one in any corner of Ventura County, CA (Oxnard, Port Hueneme, Ventura, Camarillo, etc.), talk to the caring staff at Oxnard Family Circle, Inc. today. 1-805-385-4180
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