Your senior might have been floored by her diabetes diagnosis and really out of her element when trying to figure out how that diagnosis impacts her life. Luckily, working with an adult day care center offers your senior a chance to get the diabetes assistance that she needs to live a full and healthy life, while also experiencing the other benefits available at an adult day center.
Receiving Emotional Support
A diabetes diagnosis can be surprisingly emotional for many people. There are so many changes that your senior is facing and there’s also a lot of guilt involved in what choices she made in the past and whether she’ll be emotionally able to handle making changes in the future. Talking to other people dealing with diabetes can be so powerful.
Increasing Physical Activity
As long as your senior’s doctor recommends increasing her activity levels, it can be a lot safer and more fun to engage in physical activity with other people. Doing so at an adult day center means that your elderly family member can be a lot more active while also interacting with other people and making the entire experience much better overall.
Monitoring Medication and Blood Sugar Levels
Monitoring blood sugar levels and any medications that your senior is taking is a crucial part of diabetes management. Knowing that your elderly family member has experienced skilled nursing assistance with these tasks can help you to relax a bit during the day.
Assisting with Related Health Concerns
There are so many health issues that overlap with diabetes and that can complicate diabetes. Staying on top of those issues can help your elderly family member to be aware of what’s going on with her health and can keep her from experiencing worse issues. Health issues like neuropathy and slow-healing wounds can become life threatening if ignored.
Having Educational Opportunities
It can be so overwhelming to figure out how diabetes impacts your senior’s life, as you and she have probably already discovered. An adult day care center provides your elderly family member with an expert that she can trust about diabetes education. She can learn how nutritional choices affect her diabetes and what she can do to help herself to feel better consistently.
The most complicated health issues are so much easier to manage when there’s a place that you and your senior can go for the additional help that you both need.
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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