Home Care Assistance and Healthy Routines for Seniors

Maintaining healthy routines is a big part of both physical and emotional well-being for aging adults. As they age, it can be more difficult for aging adults to maintain their daily habits and routines. Home care assistance providers can play a crucial role in maintaining these routines, especially in areas that are becoming more difficult for seniors to handle on their own. Seniors can live a healthier and happier life, with the stability that they need.

Supporting Personal Hygiene

Personal hygiene is a big part of maintaining health and self-esteem for seniors. These are tasks related to changing clothes, bathing, eating, changing positions, or toileting. Mobility problems, cognitive changes, and other physical limitations can all play a role. Home care assistance aides can help with these tasks as much or as little as seniors need. If seniors need a lot of help with personal care, they focus on maintaining dignity as much as they can.

Nutrition and Meal Preparation

So much of health for seniors relies on them eating healthy meals and snacks. The problem is that it can take a lot of energy to keep up with cooking healthy foods, especially if seniors are facing physical challenges. It can also be difficult to maintain motivation for cooking if seniors live alone. Senior care providers can do the cooking, making sure aging adults are eating well and as often as they should.

Encouraging Physical Activity

Regular physical activity helps seniors hold onto their mobility and muscle tone for as long as they can. Home care providers can help seniors remember to exercise and encourage them to stick with their exercise goals. Continuing to be physically active helps with physical health, but it also boosts mood and offers emotional health benefits.

Fostering Social Connections

Social routines can also suffer as seniors age, particularly when aging adults are having other issues. Home care assistance can offer social engagement, but they can also help seniors to participate more in activities and hobbies in the community. Offering transportation assistance and other types of support can help seniors to get back out there and spend time with other people.

Stability and Purpose

Routines are so helpful because they offer stability and even a sense of purpose for seniors. Home care providers work with seniors to create schedules and routines that support the senior’s needs. That structure keeps seniors on track with healthy habits, but it also helps seniors to stay involved in the planning process. As needs change, these routines are easy to adjust as well. Seniors know what to expect with good routines. No matter what else is going on, their routines are there to offer a framework for everything else.

Home care assistance is there to offer support as needed to keep seniors on track. That support might take a variety of different forms, depending on what aging adults need most at any given time. The most important part of these routines is that they focus on exactly the areas that are difficult for seniors to manage alone.

If you or an aging loved one are considering Home Care Assistance Services in the Independence MO area, please contact the caring staff at Elder Care of Kansas City, today.

Proudly serving Jackson, Clay, Platte, and Cass Counties in Missouri as well as Johnson and Wyandotte Counties in Kansas for over 30 years. Call us at 816-333-3322.

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Kevin Edwards

Owner at Elder Care of Kansas City

Kevin’s life and the lives of his immediate family have been impacted by caregivers – either as a patient or a caregiver - for as long as he can remember.He watched his mother take care of his grandmother until her death at the age of 97.Five years later, his father passed from a neurological disorder that was subsequently confirmed as Lewy Body Dementia.In 2007, his wife, Lori, was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.The symptoms of Lori’s disease required Kevin to hire a caregiver during the periods of her relapses.

Prior to purchasing Elder Care, Kevin spent over 20 years in the health insurance industry.In his most recent position, he was in a financial operations role with Humana where he worked with doctors, nurses and other health professionals developing programs to keep Humana members healthy.Their focus on primary care and medication adherence improved the lives of thousands of seniors in Kansas City and the surrounding area.

Kevin and his wife, Lori, have three children.Kevin has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Missouri.

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