Beginning Your Journey Through Elder Care
Caring for an aging parent, elderly spouse, domestic partner of close fiend presents difficult challenges - especially when a crisis hits and you are suddenly faced with the responsibilities of elder care. Perhaps your aging mother fell, is hospitalized with a broken hip and needs to go to a rehab facility or nursing home to recover.
Care giving can also begin as a result of unsettling mishaps and warning signs that indicate a need for long term elder care. Perhaps your elderly spouse has wandered off and gotten lost several times. Or a long-time friend has lost a lot of weight and rarely leaves home.
You may be the only person to step in and become the caregiver. Or, you may be the linchpin of a network of family members and friends willing to help care for your elderly senior. Whatever the situation, you are not sure of the next step, or even the first step.
Whether you are in the middle of a crisis and decisions have to be made quickly, or planning ahead for and elderly loved one because of unsettling warning signs. Always Best Care of Kane County can help you find the answers you need.
What kind of help does your loved one need... long term elder care? Or, help for only a short time to recover after a hospital stay? Are problems undiagnosed but correctable? For example, prescription drugs interactions and side effects, Vitamin B12 deficiency, dehydration and other treatable causes are often mistaken, even by doctors, for Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.
If their problems are not correctable, what elder care living arrangements are available for your loved one? What nursing care plans are most appropriate? If they are able to remain in their own home, what kind of elder care services do you arrange? Is assisted living preferred over a nursing home? What challenges does your loved one's condition pose? How will you manage it all, and still maintain a life of your own?
In-Home Care can include a wide range of non-medical services such as:
- Companion Services
- Geriatric Assessment / Evaluation / Care Management
- Home / Safety Monitoring
- Home care (Non-Medical)
- Live-In Home Care
- Meal Preparation
- Personal Care (e.g. Bathing, Toileting or Grooming)
- Transportation (Non-Medical, e.g. errands, shopping)
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