How Visiting Angels Crystal Lake Ensures that Your Aging Parents Have What They Need to Thrive
It can be challenging to find yourself at a place in life where you're caring for both your children and your aging parents. It can become complicated when you live far from your parents. Your parents may feel comfortable and connected to their home and community and feel unprepared to make a drastic move or change to their lives.
Still, you may find your level of worry increasing as your parents age. Especially as your children become more absorbed in their activities and it gets more difficult to visit your parents as frequently as you'd like.
Visiting Angels Crystal Lake can help. We assist aging adults in a wide variety of ways. We also support families by keeping you informed of your loved one's care, which can give you peace of mind. It's a relief to have an update from a professional and to know that your parent's needs are being met on a routine basis. Here's how we help.
Long-Distance Care
Especially now, during the COVID-19 pandemic, families have maintained remote communications to stay in contact with one another. This can be especially worrisome when you have a senior in the family who lives far away. You may find yourself wondering: Is mom really doing okay? Does dad look thin? Are mom and dad getting what they need, or are they just trying to spare my feelings when I talk to them?
Through Visiting Angels Crystal Lake's Long-Distance Care, we make it easy to establish care from a distance for your aging loved one. We will also keep you in the loop on their care needs. This way, you can be sure that your loved one is healthy and has the resources they need to be comfortable at home. Stop worrying and start problem-solving. It's such a relief to know that your loved one is in good hands with Visiting Angels Crystal Lake.
Home Care Services
When it comes to supporting our clients, our professional caregivers do what you would do if you had the opportunity to be there with your loved one. You can select the caregiver that best suits your family's needs allowing you to rest assured that it stands to be a fitting relationship. These are some services our professional caregivers provide:
- Help with laundry
- Light housekeeping
- Running errands
- Providing rides to appointments
- Cooking and grocery shopping
- Help with grooming and bathroom assistance
- Medication reminders
- Joyful company
Special Assistance
Many of our Visiting Angels Crystal Lake Caregivers are also specially trained to assist clients with special needs, like dementia, including Alzheimer's disease. Suppose your loved one is struggling with these issues. In that case, it can make it incredibly challenging to provide care to that person, especially if you're also juggling the demands of parenting and professional life.
Engaging a professional caregiver's support can help you and can also be extremely helpful to a family caregiver. Often, one senior will function as a family caregiver to his or her spouse. Doing so is a kind and generous act, but it can be very taxing. Dementia and Alzheimer's can be challenging to manage, especially for a senior. Inviting the help of a professional caregiver can provide relief and support, aiding the family caregiver.
Life Care Navigation
Whatever level of care your loved one needs, Visiting Angels Crystal Lake customizes care through our Life Care Navigation Program. We understand a senior's needs change as they age. Unexpected things come up. It's hard to expect and plan for those, especially during a pandemic and when you're far away. Our programs have been enhanced and refined over time to fortify our services as your loved one's needs change.
If a client experiences a hospital stay, we can arrange to have a Caregiver there in the hospital with them. This ensures that the client asks the right questions about their discharge and recovery protocol. We can then help them implement those protocols at home, which can aid their recovery. Our approach aims to help our clients avoid hospital readmissions by carefully adhering to their doctor's recovery orders; doing so with a professional caregiver can make a big difference.
Ease your mind
When it comes to caring for your aging parents, let us ease your mind. We've got solutions for your concerns. Contact us online or call us at 815-479-0312.