Adjusting to brain changes your senior might be experiencing can be difficult for everyone involved. One solution is memory care, which gives your family member a chance to have certain types of assistance in an environment that is both safe and comforting for her.
What Is Memory Care?
Memory care offers specialized assistance to adults who may be having cognitive difficulties, including dealing with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Memory loss can significantly impact your family member’s daily life, and adult day care can offer a place where you and your family know that she’s safe and that she is getting the care and attention that she needs.
Providing a Safe Environment
One of the biggest issues facing a family when memory issues become a more impactful problem is that your family member may not be as safe as you would like when she’s at home alone. She may not remember to turn off the stove, for instance, or there could be other concerns, like wandering. Memory care offers her a chance to spend time in an environment you know is safe for her.
Having a Solid Schedule
Routine and schedule are very important for people with dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, and other cognitive changes. The routine becomes something that offers support during the day, even if other things around them are different or changing. Going to memory care offers your senior that routine for her daily activities.
Offering Friendly Opportunities to Socialize
So many older adults live on their own and find it difficult to be as social as they truly need or want to be. If that’s the case for your senior, then memory care can help her to be around other people for a few hours a day. This can help to reduce feelings of loneliness and keeps your senior from isolating herself.
Providing Engaging, Brain-stimulating Activities
Another major goal of memory care is to stimulate your senior’s brain. There are tons of ways to do this, with a variety of different types of activities. Adult day care offers your senior a chance to try out a wide range of different group and individual activities that can help her to hold onto abilities and skills that she has. If your elderly family member already has hobbies she loves, she can explore those even further.
Ensuring Family Members Have Respite Time
It’s so difficult to balance all of the needs that you might be responsible for managing on a daily basis. With all of those responsibilities clamoring for your time and attention, it’s helpful to know that there is somewhere your senior can get the assistance that she needs during the day. That way you’re able to take care of you and of the people you love.
No matter how advanced your senior’s memory issues are, memory care can help her to feel safe and to have the hands-on assistance that she needs on a daily basis. The more engaged in the world around her your senior is, the more she may be able to slow down the progression of her memory issues.
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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