How Home Care Services from Visiting Angels Can Help Seniors in Boulder County with Spring Cleaning
Home care services from Visiting Angels can help seniors in Longmont, CO stay safe during spring cleaning
Spring has finally arrived and families throughout Longmont and surrounding communities in Boulder County are preparing for the big spring cleaning. If you are a family caregiver providing care for a loved one, Visiting Angels has some tips on how to tackle this year’s cleaning. As America’s leading provider of home care services, we know how important a clean and clutter-free home can be for seniors living independently.
“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.”
How Does Spring Cleaning Benefit Seniors?
While spring cleaning may seem like a daunting task, there are certain benefits to consider. Here’s how it can help your loved one:
- Improve safety conditions in your loved one’s home
- Make their living space more accessible
- Identify if there is an increased need for home care services
- Thoroughly assess Mom or Dad’s quality of life
Helping Seniors Safely Clean Their Homes with Home Care Services
You or a professional caregiver can help your loved one stay safe during spring cleaning in the following ways:
- Make a plan – Prepare a checklist of all areas you want to cover and all the tasks you need to perform. Ask your loved one to doublecheck and make sure you didn’t forget some important chores. When you start cleaning, go by numbers and cross items on the list as you go along.
- Ask for help – When you have help, spring cleaning can be a rather fun activity and an excuse to get together with loved ones. Invite family members and close friends to come over and you are likely to get the job done much faster. It also will boost Mom or Dad’s mood as they can enjoy some company too.
- Include your loved one – Make sure Mom or Dad is involved in cleaning because it is their home after all. They know best what should be cleaned, mended, repaired, or thrown out. In addition to this, encourage your loved one to participate and find them some lighter tasks to perform – this can be a nice exercise for them.
- Start with the clutter – Going after clutter helps improve safety and makes it easier to clean. Go through your loved one’s stuff and get rid of unused furniture, consumer goods, or broken or obsolete appliances.
- Check expiry dates on products - Expired household items can be dangerous for your loved one, especially if they have a cognitive condition. Check the medicine cabinet, fridge, and pantry and throw away all expired items.
- Test safety items – Spring cleaning is also an opportunity to inspect whether grab bars in the house are firmly fixed, test if burglar alarms and smoke and carbon monoxide detectors are operational, and perform an overall evaluation of safety measures in your loved one’s home.
Consider hiring an agency to provide professional home care services if you noticed your loved one is struggling in any way with their current living conditions. Call Visiting Angels of Boulder County today and learn more about how we can boost Mom or Dad’s quality of life.
Visiting Angels of Boulder County is a leading provider of non-medical home care services for seniors. To learn more about the in-home assisted living services provided by our staff of compassionate caregivers, please call our Longmont office at (303) 828-2664 or contact us for more information.
Visiting Angels proudly serves Allenspark, Boulder, Eldorado Springs, Erie, Hygiene, Lafayette, Longmont, Louisville, Lyons, Nederland, Niwot, Pinecliff, Ward, and the surrounding areas of Boulder County, CO.