Important Senior Care Wellness Tips During the COVID-19 Crisis from Visiting Angels Carlisle

At Visiting Angels, we’re committed to helping the seniors in our care in Carlisle, Gettysburg, Chambersburg and surrounding areas in PA stay safe during the COVID-19 outbreak. Here’s how our home care agency can help your loved one

During the current COVID-19 crisis, we should be focused more than ever on the well-being of our loved ones. Since the disease is quickly spreading throughout communities across the world, it is important to keep our loved ones safe. At Visiting Angels Carlisle, our home care agency offers high-quality essential personal care services to seniors living in Carlisle, Gettysburg, Chambersburg and surrounding areas which are designed to keep your loved one healthy and strong.

There are three ways this disease is spread. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it can be done:

• Through Person-to-Person – It can be spread through touch, sneezes and coughs.
• Through Surfaces – It has been confirmed that the virus stays on certain surfaces for hours. For example, it lasts on copper for several hours, and up to three days on surfaces like plastic and stainless steel.
• Through the Air - It can last for up to three hours in the air.

How Our Home Care Agency Can Help Seniors in Carlisle, Gettysburg, Chambersburg and Surrounding Communities Stay Safe

Visiting Angels Carlisle has always been focused on maintaining health and well-being of older adults. Our home care agency offers a wide variety of services that are designed to increase the quality of life of our clients and help them age safely at home. We deliver services that range from tasks like light housekeeping to personal care.

While following guidelines from CDC we have come up with solutions for maintaining the well-being of seniors in our care:

• Know the symptoms: It is important that every senior in Carlisle, Chambersburg, Gettysburg and surrounding communities is aware of common symptoms of the disease such as fever, dry cough, difficulty breathing, chest pain and confusion.
• Personal care: Maintaining personal hygiene is extremely important during the outbreak. Our caregivers can help your loved one with personal tasks such as bathing, washing hands, brushing their teeth, changing clothes and more.
• Practice social distancing: Your loved one should stay at home as much as possible. Our caregivers can go shopping and run errands, so your parent doesn’t have to leave their house.
• Stay mindful: During the ongoing crisis, people should sneeze into the crook of their elbow or into a tissue.
• Maintain a clean home: Visiting Angels Carlisle offers light housekeeping services, so you can be sure that all the surfaces in your parent’s home have been disinfected.

How Else Can Caregivers from Visiting Angels Carlisle Keep Seniors Safe?

Our caregivers are trained to provide assistance with a variety of daily tasks, from transportation and meal preparation, to laundry and transferring. Our home care agency also offers specialized care such as Alzheimer’s and dementia care, fall prevention and end of life care.

To learn more about our in-home senior care services, please contact our offices in Carlisle, Gettysburg or Chambersburg, PA.