Important Senior Care Wellness Tips for Greater Bangor and Auburn, ME
Now more than ever families should be focusing on the wellness and health of their aging loved ones in Bangor, Auburn, and the surrounding area. While we are still learning about Coronavirus, or COVID-19, the disease has been noted for its quick and easy spread throughout communities across the world. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this disease can spread in multiple ways:
- Through Person-to-Person - people within six feet of one another can easily spread the disease through touch, sneezes, and coughs.
- Through Surfaces - it has been found that COVID-19 lasts for multiple hours on surfaces like copper, up to 24-hours on surfaces like cardboard, and two to three days on surfaces like plastic and stainless steel.
- Through the Air - this disease can last for up to three hours in the air.
Our Senior Care Agency Wants to Help Aging Adults in Bangor, Auburn, and Surrounding Areas Fight Off COVID-19 By Keeping Their Wellness High
At Visiting Angels Mid Maine our goal has always been to maintain a senior’s health, happiness, and independence at home. Our senior caregivers are there for their clients to help them protect their well-being by offering a wide range of services. Our services range from simple tasks like light housekeeping to hands-on assistance with personal care needs. With guidance from the CDC, our senior care agency was able to come up with the best practices for maintaining a senior’s wellness:
- Know the symptoms: Fever, dry cough, difficulty breathing, chest pain, and confusion.
- Personal care: a home care specialist can assist seniors with maintaining good hygiene like bathing, washing hands, brushing teeth, changing clothes, and more.
- Practice social distancing: a great way to do this is by staying at home as much as possible, especially for seniors who are at high-risk. Our caregivers can run to the grocery store to stock up on essentials like water, non-perishable goods, and personal care objects so your loved one doesn’t have to.
- Stay mindful: it’s important to remember that if you need to sneeze or cough to do so into the crook of your elbow or into a tissue and to avoid touching your face or eyes.
- Maintain a clean home: Our home care providers can assist your loved one with light housekeeping* to help ensure that surfaces are disinfected.
How Else Can Caregivers Keep Seniors Safe?
Other than practicing daily wellness to keep your aging loved one safe, healthy, and independent, our home care agency offers a variety of other senior care services as well. Our caregivers can assist with daily tasks like transportation to doctor’s appointments, meal preparation, mobility assistance, and transferring. They also offer specialized care like Alzheimer’s and dementia care, fall prevention, end of life care, social care, and more.
To learn more about how our senior care can help your aging loved one remain safe at home, please contact Visiting Angels Mid Maine today to learn more. We are happy to answer any questions you may have and schedule a consultation to get to know your loved one’s needs, schedule, and budget.
*Light housekeeping is limited and does not include moving of any heavy objects, please contact our office to learn more.