When we think of healthcare, we think of doctors, nurses, and care workers helping us with our bodies. Checking our reflexes, doing blood work, running scans, and the like. If we take a second, we might expand this notion to include our mental and emotional health, such as seeing a psychiatrist. But it often stops there, even though there other things care providers can do that will have a positive effect on our lives and our health. Other things such as homemaking services.
1- Reduces stress
A homemaking service is a type of service provided by health care agencies that focus on helping people such as seniors and those who live with disabilities take care of their homes. Some of these people can take care of themselves all right, but the chores associated with the upkeep of one’s home are too much for them. It would be a shame for these people to feel like they have to move out of their homes just because doing the laundry or the grocery shopping is too much for them.
These tasks can really weigh on seniors. It can get them down and make them anxious. This stress will have a deleterious effect on their health. So while it may seem like homemaking services are something different from healthcare, the two are actually closely linked.
2- Companionship
We all want to be there for our parents and elderly family members. We try to spend as much time with them as possible, but it’s not always enough. We have our own lives and responsibilities. And this can be tricky because seniors are at a higher risk of isolation and loneliness, especially if they are widowed or otherwise single. If a care worker is coming by to take care of the homemaking services, this is at least somebody else around them that can provide them company. You can even pair homemaking services with companionship services, meaning you can get care workers who, as part of their job, will chat and play games with seniors as well as help them keep in touch with their families and friends.
3- It opens the door
Some seniors need some help taking care of their homes and nothing else. And for some seniors, that’s all they’ll ever need. But as we age, our capabilities generally become more and more restricted. It’s a common factor of aging. The older we get, the harder it becomes to take care of ourselves, as well as our homes. If you have noticed that your parent or elderly loved one is really struggling to take care of themselves, it can be an awkward and sometimes even heated discussion to tell them that you think they should avail themselves of the services provided by a professional care worker.
However, it is often an easier conversation to say you want to hire somebody to come by and help them take care of their homes. And once the homemaking care worker is there, and your parent sees that this is by no means the end of the world, they’re likelier to be more open to the idea of more involved, personal care if and when that becomes necessary.
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