Home Care Assistance: Respite Help for Family Caregivers
If you have an elderly or disabled loved one, you may find yourself stopping by to lend a hand with increasing frequency. If you are trying to juggle your personal life, career, family, friends, and other obligations, along with providing regular assistance to your loved one, you may wind up feeling overloaded and overwhelmed. When it comes to home care assistance, families in Broken Arrow, Owasso, Jenks, Bixby, Tulsa, and the surrounding communities find a welcome respite with help from Visiting Angels® Tulsa OK.
Home care assistance from Visiting Angels Tulsa gives caregivers in Broken Arrow, such as yourself, an opportunity to refresh by engaging in activities to help you relax. Some things to try:
- Spend time with your friends or family members
- Simply relax and take it easy
- Run your own errands
- Engage in activities which make you happy
- Exercise or go for a walk
- Pamper yourself with a haircut or massage
- Read a book or watch television
How Home Care Assistance Helps Seniors in Broken Arrow
Home Care assistance from Visiting Angels Tulsa helps seniors in Broken Arrow in a variety of ways. We provide non-medical aid in the form of Alzheimer's and dementia care, companion care, personal care, social care, end of life care, transitional care, and elder care in addition to respite care. We base our services around the needs of the senior we are working with.
Some types of home care assistance which are often helpful for seniors in Broken Arrow include:
- Transportation and accompaniment to doctors appointments
- Help following a physician prescribed meal plan
- Folding laundry, doing dishes, or light housekeeping
- Going to the grocery store or running errands
- Help with walking, transferring, and fall prevention
- Providing medication reminders and monitoring
- Shared activities and joyful companionship
Getting Started with Care
To help Broken Arrow area seniors get started with home care assistance, Visiting Angels Tulsa offers a free in-home consultation. You can schedule a time for our friendly care coordinator to come to your loved one's home and answer all your questions. We will spend time getting to know your loved one and understanding their non-medical health and wellness needs. Our agency will create a customized care plan to help your loved one and to ease your burden.
If you have a parent or loved one in need of assistance in or around Broken Arrow, call Visiting Angels Tulsa and inquire about our home care assistance today.