Social interaction is a big part of helping aging adults stay healthy mentally and physically. As seniors opt to age in place, though, they often find that they have more trouble with loneliness and isolation. This can happen because of physical limitations, health challenges, and feeling isolated from family members and friends. Senior home care services can offer assistance with tasks seniors need help managing, but they also offer social interaction that becomes invaluable.
Social Interaction and Senior Health
Humans need social interaction in order to maintain emotional and psychological health. The problem is that in modern society, seniors can find it more difficult to maintain social relationships. As a result, they may experience cognitive decline, anxiety, depression, and even increased pain levels. All of this can be a vicious cycle that leaves seniors feeling worse both physically and emotionally.
What Does Senior Home Care Do?
Home care services offer caregivers who can help seniors manage household tasks like laundry and light cleaning, meal preparation, personal care tasks, and other related tasks. Senior home care doesn’t offer medical support, but they can remind seniors to take medications according to schedules. They also spend a lot of time with aging adults, bringing them companionship and a friendly person who understands the challenges they’re facing.
Offering Emotional Support
Professional caregivers spend a lot of time with seniors as they work with them and offer them assistance. That means that they get to know the seniors they’re helping really well. They talk with them, listen to their concerns, and engage in different activities with them. Throughout all of that time, they offer seniors emotional support that makes a difference.
Making Social Activities Easier
So many seniors find that it’s more difficult as they age to partake in social activities and get out into their communities like they did in the past. Senior home care providers can help with mobility challenges and take care of the driving for seniors, making it easier for them to engage in community events and social activities. It can also be a huge relief for seniors to simply have someone there with them so they don’t feel alone in a group.
Building Trust with Seniors
Elder care providers gradually build relationships with the seniors to whom they offer care. They help seniors in so many ways and establish a lot of trust over time. These ongoing relationships help seniors feel seen, heard, and valued, which is a powerful feeling if they’ve been spending a lot of time alone and feeling isolated.
Mental Stimulation
Engaging in regular conversations and having someone else around is mentally stimulating, especially for seniors. Senior home care providers ask questions, talk about things seniors find interesting, and help seniors reminisce about their history. All of this helps to keep cognitive function strong and allows seniors to express themselves.
Senior home care helps aging adults with a lot of practical concerns, but they do more than that, too. Professional caregivers make it easier for seniors to get the social interaction and benefits that they need in order to stay healthy on multiple levels.
If you or an aging loved one are considering Senior Home Care in Lewisville, 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.
My name is Jimmie Stapleton. I am the founder and CEO of Arcy Healthcare. Arcy Healthcare includes Arcy Hospice, Arcy Supportive Care, MaximaCare 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 (MaximaCare Home Health), a palliative care division (Arcy Supportive Care), and a home care division, (Arcy at Home). 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 motivation 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 that our staff provides some of the best in home care in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.
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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