How to Help Your Senior Loved One Stick to a Nutrition Plan with Care at Home Services
Learn from Professional Care at Home Caregivers on How to Help Your Senior Loved One Stick to a Nutrition Plan in Bangor, ME & Surrounding Areas
For a senior’s health, many must follow certain diets to help or maintain the side effects of certain medical conditions. These diets can be for congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, diabetes, hypertension, and more. Good nutrition can make a big impact on their health so let’s see how you can help your loved one follow a nutrition plan.
The Challenges of Senior Nutrition Plans
Sometimes it can be hard for seniors to follow these diets. Here are a few examples of how this can be:
- Seniors’ metabolisms slow down, and they exercise less. A slower metabolism creates a need for low-calorie diets.
- Taste, thirst and digestive systems change with age.
- Difficulty swallowing or chewing.
- Senior with memory challenges can forget they have or have not eaten.
- They may forget what their diet should be.
- If they face a lack of motivation or want to follow the diet.
- Depression or anxiety caused by the new diet.
- Living alone can make it difficult to want to pay attention to eating right.
Benefits of Care at Home Help
Care at home professionals can help your loved ones learn to follow a nutritional plan. Our caregivers can provide companionship, assist seniors with grocery shopping, and more. We can be there to encourage them to try new foods, give them fresh ingredients to pick from, and even cook together to enjoy a social experience.
Helping out and cooking, and preparing meals as a social opportunity are ways to help seniors stick to a nutritional plan. We want your loved ones to continue living comfortably in their homes. With our assistance around the house, reminders about meals and medications, and transportation on errands, we will make these daily tasks possible for your loved one again.
Contact Visiting Angels Mid Maine
Visiting Angels Mid Maine is one call away to answer all your questions and create care at-home solutions for your loved one. Call us today to schedule your initial consultation to discuss your senior care plan.
