How a Private Caregiver Can Help Your Senior Parent in Aspen Hill Get Their Spring Cleaning Done
A private caregiver from Visiting Angels can help seniors in Aspen Hill, Silver Spring and Laurel, MD with spring cleaning
Winter is finally over! But, before your senior parent gets out there and starts enjoying the wonderful weather, consider how a good spring cleaning could improve their life. With an experienced private caregiver from Visiting Angels Aspen Hill, so much could become easier and more accessible to your parent, and spring cleaning is one of those things. Let’s take a look at why spring cleaning is so important, but, first, a word from our CEO.
“A clean home makes caring for a loved one that much easier,” says Larry Meigs, CEO of Visiting Angels. “Yearly spring cleaning is a fantastic chance to evaluate and improve your loved one’s home living conditions.”
We’ve helped many seniors throughout Aspen Hill, Silver Spring, Laurel, Bethesda, Colesville and surrounding communities with housekeeping tasks and other home care services. We understand the importance of a clean and clutter-free home for older adults, as well as the best ways to help seniors with spring cleaning tasks.
Why is Spring Cleaning Important for Seniors?
There is no doubt that spring cleaning is a pretty serious and time-consuming job. However, there are so many positive things about it. Without the shadow of a doubt, a good spring cleaning can really improve your loved one’s life by removing hazardous and dangerous things. Clutter is a big problem for older individuals as it can cause them to slip and fall and falls are one of the number one reasons that seniors are hospitalized. In other words, a good spring cleaning can save your loved one from days, weeks or even months spent at the hospital and even up to a year of recovery and rehabilitation.
At the same time, spring cleaning is a good opportunity to bring up the potential need for a private caregiver. You and your loved one can take some time to speak about professional in-home care. Make sure to listen to your loved one’s concerns. At the same time, speak to the fact of how much easier things like spring cleaning would be with a senior caregiver around.
How a Private Caregiver Can Make Spring Cleaning Easy
There are so many ways you or a professional caregiver can make spring cleaning easier for your loved one.
Start by creating a plan. Make sure to involve your loved one as much as possible as this will go a long way towards helping them stay active throughout the day both physically and mentally.
A good way to make spring cleaning a bit easier on your loved one is to mix it with socializing. Invite family and friends over and spend some time with your loved one as you clean. You can make a day or week out of it and do simple things that can mean a lot to your senior parent like cooking a big family dinner.
Removing clutter and expired items is absolutely important. You should also take this opportunity to test out any household safety devices and assistive devices, such as fire alarms and grab bars.
By giving and extra hand to your loved one during spring cleaning, you can help them create safer and more comfortable surroundings.
Contact our Silver Spring, MD office to learn more about how our private caregivers help seniors in Aspen Hill, Laurel and surrounding communities.