Moving on from Task Management Care with Visiting Angels Comfort Care
Visiting Angels of Plano, TX, helps seniors thrive by moving beyond task management care to provide comprehensive comfort care.
Watching a loved one’s age is emotionally challenging and surprisingly time-consuming. Seniors deal with issues such as limited mobility, hearing loss, or decreased vision. As a caregiver, you worry about whether your aging loved one can manage alone. As you must spend more and more time helping, you begin to think of options to ensure they are safe and well cared for in their home. While you’re working to acquire potential necessities such as a cane or walker, an alarm system, or a hearing aid, don’t forget that your loved one also requires comfort care that includes companionship and interpersonal connections.
Seniors certainly benefit from having immediate needs met but will not thrive without feeling a sense of purpose and connection with others. While family members do their best to fulfill this need, often, it’s simply overwhelming to handle all of this on your own. Your senior needs more than task management care to live a happy and enriched life.
What is Task Management Care?
This is exactly the type of care it implies. Specific goals are set and then, once achieved, crossed off the list. It is a technique used by hospitals and nursing homes, rightfully so in many cases, because a patient’s progress must be quantified by meeting actual benchmarks. For example, can a senior walk across the room unaided or feed himself or use the bathroom? Once these goals are achieved, the patient is discharged, or therapy is discontinued.
How Does Comprehensive Comfort Care Differ?
While essential physical functions are crucial for any senior, interpersonal communication is even more vital for an aging adult’s continued good health. You may have noticed how your senior loved one lights up when you visit, or even when new people visit to help with a task, such as cleaning or delivering a meal. Seniors crave connections with others and benefit both mentally and physically from this engagement. Comprehensive comfort care is designed to connect seniors to the community and form a bond with a consistent caregiver.
According to the CDC, “loneliness and social isolation in older adults are serious public health risks affecting a significant number of people in the United States and putting them at risk for dementia and other serious medical conditions.” The CDC explains that many studies show senior isolation leads to illness and even the risk of premature death. Isolation increases the risk of:
- Dementia
- Heart disease
- Stroke
- Depression, anxiety, and suicide
- Hospitalization and emergency department visits
Your aging loved one will benefit immeasurably from having companionship through comfort care. Even seniors who have family surrounds can feel loneliness as they age and require more help.
The Difference a Visiting Angels Professional Caregiver Makes
A professional caregiver ensures that your senior can remain safely in the home they cherish and thrive in a while doing so. In-home caregivers help with tasks such as bathing, grooming, bathroom needs, meal preparation, and more. The most vital role an in-home caregiver offers, however, is companionship. A Visiting Angels caregiver forms a strong bond with a client. We carefully match our caregivers with each senior, taking personality and specific needs into account. Camaraderie comes with consistency of care from a friendly professional who works with the senior, family members, and medical professionals to ensure that a client is living the best, most fulfilling life possible from the familiar comforts of home.
Our seniors feel connected to the community and safely participate in various local activities with the help of a caregiver. The comprehensive comfort cares each senior receives help with mental and physical growth and helps family members concentrate on spending quality time with aging loved ones without the worry of checking off necessary tasks for their senior’s care. We make life easier for family and friends and better for our senior clients.
If you’re interested in learning more about our comprehensive in-home comfort care, contact Visiting Angels of Plano, TX today by calling 972-846-8417.
