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Help Your Senior Loved One Stay Connected with Social Media with Senior Caregivers in Aspen Hill, MD

Senior caregivers from Visiting Angels Aspen Hill can help your parent or adult combat isolation by staying socially engaged through social media

Loneliness and isolation often lead to many negative health effects and studies have shown that there is even a link between loneliness and an increased risk of early death and compromised health. Unfortunately, many seniors lead isolated lives due to their mobility and health problems. Luckily, nowadays older adults can use social media to stay connected with their friends and family without even leaving their homes. Here at Visiting Angels Aspen Hill, our caregivers can help our clients utilize social media and stay in touch with the outside world.

Creating an Online Profile

Staying connected with their loved ones on social media can help your parent avoid pitfalls of isolation. If your senior is not too computer savvy, our senior caregivers will gladly help them set up an online account and ensure that the privacy settings are at an appropriate level.

Your parent can also join sites like CaringBridge or Lotsa Helping Hands who help them communicate changing care needs and stay in touch with family and friends who want to visit.

FaceTime and Skype dates

Nowadays when video chat technology is accessible for users of all ages, your loved one can easily make video calls via FaceTime, Google Hangouts and Skype. Although seeing their loved ones in person is far better, these calls will provide a sense of structure for your parent.

Encourage Joining Online Support Groups

Many Facebook groups revolve around various hobbies and interests. However, your parent or their senior caregiver can also find support groups that gather around people who have the same diagnosis. By joining these they will be able to receive information, insights, and a word of encouragement 24/7 without ever leaving home.

Control Usage for Safe Browsing

You need to make sure that your loved one utilizes social media in a safe manner. Many scammers target senior users of social platforms, so make sure that your parent is not giving away any information they shouldn’t. However, do this carefully or otherwise you will minimize your senior’s sense of independence.

Engaging in Life

Although they can chat with their friends online, this kind of interaction should never replace socializing in person. Online social networking is just a way to keep in touch in between real-life dates and our senior caregivers can encourage your loved one to stay engaged in life as much as possible.

To learn more about how our senior caregivers can help your loved one stay connected with their loved ones from the comfort of their own home, contact Visiting Angels in Aspen Hill today.

Serving Montgomery County, MD, including Bethesda, Silver Spring, Aspen Hill, Colesville and Laurel

Visiting Angels BETHESDA, MD
4803 St. Elmo Ave 2nd Floor
Bethesda, MD 20814
Phone: 301-490-9050
Fax: 410-549-2909

Serving Montgomery County, MD, including Bethesda, Silver Spring, Aspen Hill, Colesville and Laurel

Visiting Angels BETHESDA, MD
4803 St. Elmo Ave 2nd Floor
Bethesda, MD 20814
Phone: 301-490-9050
Fax: 410-549-2909