If your senior parent wants to live at home as they get older but they have arthritis, aging in place can be challenging. Arthritis is a common condition among seniors. It can cause debilitating pain in the joints of the hands, feet, wrists, ankles, knees, and other joints. But with veterans’ home care services, seniors can remain safely at home if they want to.
Arthritis can also cause symptoms like:
- Stiffness or reduced range of motion
- Swelling
- Skin discoloration.
- Tenderness or sensitivity to touch around a joint.
- A feeling of heat or warmth near joints.
Seniors who have painful swollen joints may be unable to do everyday tasks like open a drawer, pull on their socks, lift a pot from the stove, wash a dish, or turn on a faucet.
How Veterans’ Home Care Can Help
Veterans’ home care for seniors makes it possible for seniors with a wide range of common ailments to live in their own homes as they get older if they want to. A veterans’ home care provider will come to the house and help your senior with activities of daily living that are too difficult for them to do.
Some of the ways that a veterans’ home care provider can help your senior parent at home are:
Laundry
Many old family homes have laundry in the basement, which can make doing laundry almost impossible for seniors. Carrying a heavy laundry basket down and then up the stairs, lifting heavy wet clothes and linens out of the washer and putting them in the dryer, then folding them all once they’re dry can be very physically demanding. Veterans’ home care providers can do the laundry so seniors will always have clean clothes and linens.
Cooking
Cooking meals is another task that is difficult for seniors, especially for seniors with arthritis. Preparing and cooking food usually means a lot of movements that require dexterity in the fingers and wrists. Seniors with arthritis may not be able to do those motions. But with veterans’ home care seniors can enjoy delicious healthy meals that they don’t have to struggle to make.
Shopping
Grocery shopping is not a fun kind of shopping for most seniors. Walking through a big store on hard concrete floors can be agonizing for a senior with arthritis in their hips, knees, or feet. A care provider can do the grocery shopping, or pick up a grocery order placed online so that your senior parent can stay home where they are comfortable.
Driving
Your senior parent can keep their independence even if they don’t drive by having home care. A care provider can drive your senior parent to the store, the hair salon, the doctor, or anywhere else they want to go.
Light Housekeeping
Your senior parent’s home will be kept clean and clutter-free by a veterans’ home care provider so your senior parent doesn’t have to hurt themselves doing tasks like dusting, vacuuming, or doing the dishes. With regular home care visits your senior parent gets the benefits of living in their own home without having to do all the work to keep up the home.
Sources: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/12061-arthritis
https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/osteoarthritis/osteoarthritis
If you or an aging loved one are considering Veterans’ Home Care Services in Ashville PA please get in touch with the caring staff at Quality Health Services. Call (814) 251-9044
Quality Health Services is a trusted non-medical senior care provider in Punxsutawney, Bellefonte, Jefferson, Brockway, Brookville, Clearfield, St Marys, Emporium, Philipsburg, State College, Ashville, Johnstown, and Dubois PA areas.
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