Common Mistakes People Make When Aging
Welcome to Caregiver relief and the common mistakes people make when aging successful aging in place requires planning. The most common reason. Aging seniors are not able to remain in their homes. If the age is the physical environment, no matter how well we eat, how much we exercise, how many supplements we do.
There is nothing that stops the aging process. Most homes were built for the young body and not the aging body. Familiar places of comfortable living becomes sources of obstacles to meet these challenges. Adaptations to the home are often needed. A basic understanding of home economics will help ensure such adaptations are a success.
Learn about Fall Prevention
As we age fall prevention efforts are more effective when adaptations are combined with other strategies, such as exercise and medication management and footwear management, a certified aging in place specialist focuses on the individuals in the home paying particular attention to each individual's unique capability and limitations.
Small changes in the home can result in big improvements. Fewer obstacles help return the home to a place of comfort and security resulting in a happier, safer, and more independent. Senior common sense tells us that as we age, we should expect require some assistance or even total care at some.
Yeah, many aging adults buying aging, gracefully, difficult fear of aging and loss of independence and a need to hold on to that. Independence causes many seniors not to ask for help. Family members need to prepare themselves so that if a health care crisis does occur and it will that their aging family member will have some protection.
Fall prevention is important.
Preparing for the future as we age
Preparing for this will take time and energy. It requires learning about Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, asset management, learning about insurance policies and legal forms and healthcare options available. Being prepared can decrease stress and anxiety in a time of crisis. And it also gives the family caregiver a sense of calm.
As they assist the aging parent and making important decisions, let's face it. The healthcare delivery system can be overwhelming. Many families have no idea where to be going to look for assistance or what services and options are available to them. There are many county, state, veteran and senior services.
Contact your Local Office of Aging
That can provide direct access to specific care providers. Your local area on aging can direct you to programs and services that are specific to your area. You may want to utilize the services of a care manager or an elder care consultant to assist you in the new brewery, the health care system. These are individuals that specialize in the care of the aging population.
And can advocate make recommendations and assist you in overseeing every aspect of the care and services that are needed for your aging parent. It is important for seniors in their family members to investigate and understand what Medicare, Medicare supplements and Medicaid covers. If your aging parent has long-term care and.
What is the Spend Down Process
It is also important to review waiting periods, cost of living riders and home care coverage. This is the first time many family members hear the term spend down, spend down is depleting, private or family finances to the point where an individual is sufficiently poor to meet the eligibility criteria for.
The spend down process and transition to poverty can involve multiple losses. It is wise to consult an elder care attorney early, before a crisis to assist you in planning to protect your assets. Aging gracefully is no longer a part of our culture. Billions of dollars are spent trying to avoid growing old.
It is the fact that no one lives forever. We are all going to die. And if we don't die young, we are going to die old. So we should prepare for this time. We should be able to say what we want to do at the end of our life. Some choose multiple medical tests, invasive and painful procedures, and multiple admissions to the hospital to avoid death at all costs.
Others do not discuss death and do not express their wishes to. And leave the difficult decisions to family members. This takes a terrible toll on a family during a very difficult time. There is such a thing as dying with dignity. It is the very last thing we can have a say in as we age establish advanced directives now five wishes and advanced directive.
Addressing End of life Issues
Looks to all of a person's needs, medical, personal, emotional, and spiritual five wishes.org also encourages discussing wishes with your family and your physician. Make sure you complete a durable power of attorney for finances, as well as a durable power of attorney for healthcare. These simple documents allow another person to make financial and health decisions for you.
Should you become incapacitated or unable to express your wishes to anyone in the future, you should also discuss developing a will and planning funeral arrangements. This may not only save you money, but by preparing for your final arrangements, your family will have comfort in knowing that your final wishes will be.
It can alleviate stress and allow them to celebrate you and your life. The results of being unprepared, you are always functioning in a crisis mode. Everything becomes viewed as an emergency. You suffer, increase in stress and anxiety. You focus on the present emergency instead of spending time reassuring the aging senior.
It negatively, actively affects financial emotion and physically most importantly, the wishes and needs of the aging senior will not be met.
There are just a few of the avoidable crisis that may occur when unprepared to age in place. I want to help you because I don't want you to go through what so many other families have been through to help a family member remain at home as they get. I know what it's like to deal with aging, seniors on all levels, mentally, physically, and emotionally.
I care about you and I'm a hundred percent confident you can have a better life for you and your family member. In spite of all the obstacles you will face, you want the best for you or your senior member of your family. And you would do anything to discover how to help your family. As best as possible through this life-changing situation.
My next video, we'll share more information that will help you avoid some of those obstacles and offer you solutions. Thanks for visiting aging home health care.com until next time, remember you are the most important thing in the caregiving equation without you, there is no caregiving.
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Diane Carbo
Diane Carbo
