What Can You Do to Maximize Visits with Your Senior as a Long-distance Caregiver?

As a long-distance caregiver, frequent visits with your elderly family member can be the key to success. But if you don’t feel as if you or your senior are getting the most out of these visits, you might need to add some tasks to your list.

Senior Care in Centreville VA: Long Distance Caregiving Tips

-Assess Needs

Being there in person is the perfect opportunity to get a true assessment of what your aging adult needs. You’re able to see her environment and to observe what happens as your aging adult moves through her day. This is the time to sit down and talk about what your aging family member needs so that you can start to figure out what she needs exactly.

-Put Solutions in Place

Depending on how long you’re there, you can start putting solutions in place. If your elderly family member needs more help with preparing meals or housekeeping, you can put someone in charge of that. If she’s got some health concerns, you can help her to start tackling those. You’re there to help support her as some of these changes get made, even if you can’t stay with her for the full implementation.

-Meet with Local Agencies

It’s one thing to talk with representatives from local agencies on the phone, but it’s another to be able to meet with these groups face-to-face. Take the time to meet with people while you’re in town. This helps you both to see each other as people and it can help you to ensure that you’re getting the results your elderly family member needs.

-Have Fun with Your Aging Adult

Many times, long-distance caregivers forget that they’re there to spend time with their elderly family member. It’s easy to get bogged down in all the details and to get too busy during a visit. Slow down and do things with your senior just to have fun and enjoy her company. All too quickly you’ll be back in your daily life and you’ll be caring from afar again.

There is a lot that you probably need to do while you’re there with your elderly family member in person, but don’t overlook the fact that you’re there because you care.

Are you or a loved-one considering hiring senior care in Centreville, VA?  Please call the caring staff at Medical Professionals On Call today.
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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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