Over a million seniors live with rheumatoid arthritis. If your senior parent is one of them and the symptoms of RA make it tough for them to continue living in their own home, senior home care can help.
Rheumatoid arthritis causes severely swollen and painful joints, usually in the hands and feet. When seniors are struggling with RA pain and stiffness, they have a higher risk of falling when they try to do household tasks or hurting themselves.
Senior home care helps seniors with health challenges stay safe and comfortable while continuing to live at home. If you can’t be there for your senior parent every day because you have work or children to take care of or other responsibilities, senior home care is a great solution.
What’s Included In Senior Home Care?
If your parent has senior home care, a home care provider will visit them at home on a regular schedule, either daily or on a set number of days per week.
While the care provider is with your parent, they will help with household tasks and chores like:
Washing Dishes And Cleaning Up After Meals
Washing dishes can be especially difficult for someone with rheumatoid arthritis. Gripping plates, scrubbing pots and pans, and standing at the sink for extended periods can place stress on painful hands, wrists, and shoulders.
A home care provider can wash dishes, load and unload the dishwasher, wipe down counters, and clean the dining area after meals. Having help with kitchen cleanup allows your parent to enjoy meals without worrying about the physical effort required afterward.
Vacuuming Carpets And Rugs
Vacuuming is one of the most physically demanding household chores. It requires pushing and pulling a heavy machine while gripping the handle and maneuvering around furniture.
For someone with rheumatoid arthritis, these repetitive motions can cause significant discomfort in the hands, wrists, elbows, shoulders, and back. A senior home care provider can vacuum carpets, area rugs, and other floor surfaces throughout the home.
Doing Laundry
Laundry often involves lifting heavy baskets, bending over to load machines, carrying clothing, folding items, and putting them away. These tasks can be painful for older adults with rheumatoid arthritis.
A home care provider can handle the entire laundry process, including washing, drying, folding, and organizing clothing and linens. They can also help put clean items away in closets and drawers.
Cooking And Meal Preparation
Preparing meals requires a variety of hand and arm movements, including chopping, stirring, lifting cookware, opening containers, and carrying groceries. These activities can be challenging when RA affects the hands and wrists.
A senior home care provider can help plan meals, prepare ingredients, cook nutritious food, and clean up afterward. This support helps ensure your parent has access to healthy meals without the pain and fatigue that often come with cooking.
Taking Out The Trash
Taking out the trash may seem like a simple task, but it often involves lifting bags, carrying weight, opening doors, and walking to outdoor bins. For someone with rheumatoid arthritis, these movements can place stress on painful joints.
A senior home care provider can collect trash throughout the home, replace garbage bags, and take waste containers to the curb when needed.
Dusting And General Housekeeping
Dusting requires reaching, stretching, and repetitive hand movements that may aggravate arthritis symptoms. Even light cleaning tasks can become difficult when joints are swollen or stiff.
A senior home care provider can dust furniture, shelves, lamps, picture frames, and other household surfaces. They can also perform light housekeeping tasks such as wiping tables, straightening rooms, and keeping commonly used areas tidy.
A clean and organized home helps your parent feel more comfortable while reducing the physical demands of everyday living. A clean, organized home can also reduce the risk of falls and injuries.
If you or an aging loved one are considering Senior Home Care in Plano, TX, please contact the caring staff at Arcy Healthcare today at (469) 293-1515
Providing In-Home Healthcare Services in North Texas, including Dallas, Hurst, Grapevine, Keller, Plano, Frisco, McKinney, Denton, Flower Mound, Carrollton, Gainesville, and more.
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My name is Jimmie Stapleton. I am the founder and CEO of Arcy Healthcare. Arcy Healthcare includes Arcy Hospice, Arcy Supportive Care, Arcy Home Health and Arcy at Home.
Arcy Hospice was opened in 2007 to provide care and support for individuals and families facing a life limiting illness. It was established after my wife Ellen, who had been diagnosed with breast cancer, had completed her chemo and radiation therapies. At that time, things were looking positive, and we wanted to do something for our community that had been so supportive of our family during her treatments. Unfortunately, the cancer returned a few years later, and she subsequently passed away under our care in 2010.
In the years that followed, I began to see the need to provide the same level of excellent care to patients across the continuum of care. Therefore, we have added a home health division (Arcy Home Health), a palliative care division (Arcy Supportive Care), and two home care divisions, (Arcy at Home and Living Well Senior Care). With the addition of these divisions, we can meet most of the post-acute care needs for you and your family in your home.
I started Arcy Hospice with my wife as my inspiration to provide exceptional care and support in the patient’s home, where they are surrounded by family and where they feel most comfortable. I’m proud to say our dedicated staff provides some of the most respected in-home care in Dallas-Fort Worth, treating every patient like a member of our own family.
Please let us know if we can enrich the quality of life for you or a loved one.
Sincerely,
Jimmie Stapleton – Founder and CEO
Arcy Healthcare
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