How Can 24-Hour Home Care Assist the Blind?
The World Health Organization chose October to raise awareness of the facts and causes of vision loss. Blindness Awareness Month educates people around the world about the diseases and conditions that can lead to blindness. Worldwide, 285 million people suffer from visual impairment, and 39 million have lost their full vision.
In the U.S., 9.2 million older adults were partially or fully blind. Several health conditions or eye diseases increase the risk of partial or total vision loss, including diabetes, cataracts, macular degeneration, and stroke.
Your dad’s vision is gone. Some causes of vision loss happen gradually or can be prevented with regular eye exams, but your dad lost his vision rapidly. Now is the time to arrange 24-hour home care services.
What Can Home Care Aides Do?
24-Hour Home Care Cannon Hill Neighborhood, WA: Blindness Awareness
What do home care aides do? The answer is just about anything your dad needs when it comes to personal care and grooming, housekeeping and laundry, and transportation and assistance with errands.
He can have a caregiver in his home during the day to schedule appointments, drive him to them, and make sure he’s checked in and ready to see his doctor, barber, or therapist. His caregiver can help him shop for groceries, cook his meals, clean up the home, and do the laundry.
Caregivers can escort your dad on a walk around his neighborhood or yard. They can help him get showered and dressed. Medication refills and prescription medications are other services offered by home care aides.
Once a week, a caregiver can change your dad’s sheets and towels, wash and dry them, and put them away. Meanwhile, the caregiver will make your dad’s bed and hang new towels.
How Does It Work?
One error that families make when discussing 24-hour home care is to believe the caregiver moves in and sleeps when their parents sleep. That’s not the case.
Around-the-clock home care involves a team of caregivers who work in shifts. While a caregiver is on-duty, that aide is awake and ready to help your dad with the things he cannot do on his own. If he needs a ride to an eye exam, his caregiver escorts him. If he wakes in the middle of the night and needs help getting to the bathroom, his overnight caregiver is ready to help.
When a caregiver’s shift ends, that caregiver goes home and the next caregiver arrives. He doesn’t have caregivers sleeping in his home or requiring a bedroom of their own. He just has a team of caregivers working throughout the day and night to cover his care needs.
Talk to a home care specialist to learn more. You’ll get answers to your questions and concerns and receive the information you need in terms of how much it costs and what you need to do to get your dad set up.
If you or an aging loved-one is considering 24-Hour Home Care Cannon Hill Neighborhood, WA please contact the caring staff at Angel Senior Care today at (509) 326-4357.
Sources:
https://www.salusuhealth.com/Eye-Institute/News/News-Stories/Blindness-Awareness-Month.aspx#
https://www.afb.org/research-and-initiatives/statistics/adults
After watching our own family members struggle with the need for compassionate home care, we determined that we could be that caring solution and provide home care in Spokane – not just for our family, but for seniors throughout Spokane County. We like to think of our clients as our extended family, and we treat them with the same dignity and respect our own grandparents and parents would expect to receive.
Our feeling is that while all of our caregivers need to be qualified in terms of certifications and experience, our goal is to hire those that are unique in their drive to show service and respect to the elderly. We hire only those caregivers who share our purpose, passion, and commitment.
Between the two of us, we have more than 30 years’ combined experience in the health care industry and are committed to providing the best Spokane senior care. We have utilized that experience to create a care-centered business model that puts the health and well being of our clients first.
When you entrust the care of your loved one to the experience and commitment of Angel Senior Care, you can rest easy knowing they are looked after, both physically and emotionally.
Sincerely, Vaughn & Donna Young
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