Senior Health: Functional limitations are your biggest clues that your senior needs more help, usually in the form of help besides just you.

Home care providers can offer a great deal of assistance to your senior, particularly if she’s dealing with many of these senior health issues.

Loss of Mobility

Your senior can lose mobility for a variety of reasons. Her health can change, leaving her more immobile, or she might be taking medications that make mobility difficult. It’s also possible that your elderly family member becomes afraid to move as much as she should. If that’s the case, she may need even more help than you realize because of other limitations.

Falls or Near Falls

Falls, or even almost falling, can be detrimental to your senior. These can happen because of mobility issues or because of safety concerns in her home. Having a fall prevention plan is crucial and can help your elderly family member to avoid serious injury as a result of a fall. Talk to your senior and her doctor about her risk factors for a fall.

Social Isolation

If your elderly family member has cut herself off from friends and family members, that can quickly lead to depression and to other mental health issues. Your senior might be embarrassed about her health issues or about other changes she’s experiencing. Or she may be facing challenges that keep her from being able to be as social as she wants to be, like transportation issues or lack of places to socialize.

Cognitive Changes

Cognitive changes, particularly memory loss and new issues with making decisions, could mean that your elderly family member is acting differently than you’re used to her behaving. She may also be forgetting things like paying bills or handling specific tasks that are not ones that she can leave undone. It might be time for her to have more help with these needs.

Senior Health: Trouble Driving

It’s also possible that as other activities become difficult, daily activities like driving do as well. Your elderly family member may not want to admit that it’s difficult for her to drive, though, especially if she’s afraid that will cause her to be stuck at home on her own. Work with her to put a plan together for ensuring she’s able to go where she wants, but in a safer manner.

Having home care providers available to help her enables your elderly family member to find new ways to deal with these functional limitations. How she approaches the challenges in her life might change, but she doesn’t have to do it alone.

If you or an aging loved-one are considering hiring a Home Care in Rockridge, CA, call the caring staff at Aviva In-Home Care.
Call today: (415) 795-2203

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Evan Loevner

CEO at Aviva In-Home Care

As a former hospital administrator, I launched Aviva with the goal of having a more focused, direct impact on the delivery of care than I could ever accomplish within a hospital setting. For me, the joy of running an organization like Aviva In-Home Care is having the ability to positively improve the lives of individuals needing customized care. As a passionate Bay Area resident, I know that many local seniors can benefit from new approaches to in-home care, that will bring them more connection to the community, and provide families with a greater sense of comfort that their loved one is indeed matched with an ideal caregiver.

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