Senior Care in Tulsa: When You Feel Guilty Asking For Help
Are you considering looking into senior care in Tulsa but feeling guilty about taking this step? If so, we’d like to ask you to consider whether your guilt is actually deserved or perhaps based on unrealistic expectations and unachievable standards for yourself.
Truth About Caregiver Guilt
- Having a sense of duty to our loved ones is a sign of good character. But when duty turns into unrealistic levels of self-sacrifice that actually endanger your own mental, emotional, and physical health, it’s time to reassess. After all, what good will you be to your loved one if you fall apart?
- There is no one human who should even take on all the responsibility for elder care, especially as your loved one’s needs increase.
- It’s not uncommon for seniors to resist the idea of having a new person in the house. We urge you to explain to your loved one that this is something you need in order to better care for them and that the goal is to help them continue living safely at home.
- Think past the initial moments of awkwardness and know that in almost all cases, your loved one will wind up looking forward to their caregiver’s visits and see the benefit to having them assist with some of the more personal tasks they probably loathed having to ask for your help with anyway.
- Do you feel guilty spending your loved one’s money on outside help? First, senior care may not be as expensive as you think. Our hourly rates offer flexibility for almost any budget. Second, quite frankly, what better possible use of that money could exist but for their care?
About Our Senior Care in Tulsa
Our Visiting Angels® Tulsa team wants you to know that we are committed to the local senior community because we are owned and operated right here ourselves. Also, even though we are not technically a home health agency, we offer many of the same services.
Our senior care services are fully customized and personalized to the needs of your loved one and yourself. Our fully vetted caregivers can assist with a wide variety of tasks. Some of the most commonly requested forms of assistance are:
- Dignified assistance with bathing and grooming
- Incontinence issues
- Meal preparation
- Light household chores (vacuuming, dusting, linen changes, and more)
- Medication reminders
- Companionship
- Safe transportation and company to appointments and social outings
- And much more
Using our exclusive Life Care Navigation™ system, we personalize your loved one’s care by pulling elements from one or more of our full line of in-home care services:
- Companion Care
- Personal Care
- Palliative Care
- Ready - Set - Go Home
- Social Care
- Dementia Care
- Alzheimer's Care
- End of Life Care
- Safe & Steady Fall Prevention Program
- Respite Care
- Resources for Elderly Care
- Long Distance Caregiving
Our Senior Care Service Area
We gratefully serve our neighbors in:
- Tulsa
- Owasso
- Jenks
- Broken Arrow
- Bixby
- Tulsa County
- And the surrounding area
Don’t give in to undeserved and unnecessary guilt. Reach out to our senior care team today and let us design a customized program of support for you and your loved one that will restore balance to both your lives. Call Visiting Angels Tulsa today!