What Can You Do When You and Your Senior Bump Heads?

It’s not unusual at all for aging adults and their caregivers to disagree from time to time. It definitely isn’t fun to feel as if you’re battling against your elderly family member, though. Try some of these tips to help you wrap your head around whether this is really an important argument or not. From there you can take other actions.

Elderly Care in Falls Church VA: Seniors and Disagreements

Keep Your Goals in Mind

Your goals for your senior’s care, along with the goals your senior has, are ideally something you’ve talked about. Often what happens when you and your senior are at odds about something to do with her care is that you’ve forgotten these goals or they’ve slid down the priority list. Touch base with your primary goals again and see if that helps you both to refocus.

Plan out What Actions Get You Both Closer to Those Goals

When you’re focusing on those goals again, what’s your plan for getting there? Each action that you and your aging family member take can get you closer to meeting those goals or take you farther away again. When you’re working at cross purposes, you’re more likely to be heading farther away from them.

Is it Worth the Fight?

In the end, you need to be the one to stop and ask yourself whether this is about winning the argument or helping your aging adult. If you’re hung up on the fact that you’re the one that’s right, even if you are the one that’s right, you might still need to stand down. Weigh the cost of the argument before you keep it going.

Take a Step Back

Sometimes what you and you’re senior needs most in these situations is some time away from each other. In fact, you might start to notice that the frequency with which you and she have these types of disagreements might correlate to how often you’re taking respite time. Hire home care providers to take over in your stead and go do something just for you. When you come back, you’ll have a different perspective on everything.

If this is your first real disagreement with your senior since you’ve become her caregiver, this might rattle you a bit. Arguments and conflicts can throw you off your game if you let them. What’s really important is your senior’s safety and well-being. Everything else can be sorted out another day and with calmer heads prevailing.

Are you or a loved-one considering Elderly Care in Falls Church, VA?  Please call the caring staff at Medical Professionals On Call today. Contact: 703-273-8818

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Michelle DeFilippis

I graduated with a BS degree and had been selling medical equipment to hospitals, clinics and technicians. More recently, a family member was diagnosed with dementia and we, as a family, realized we were not prepared t care for her. We were thrown into that whirlpool of hospital stays, 24/7 live-in care, skilled care, caring for mom ourselves and finally, now daily home care. This was such a stressful time that I started thinking there had to be other people, other families as overwhelmed and unprepared as we were.

Medical Professionals On Call has such a caring, professional staff who are available to step in with whatever level of care necessary for loved ones and to relieve you of that stress.

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