How Home Care Can Help You Just as Much as it Helps Your Aging Parent

If you are the family caregiver for an aging parent, you know how stressful life can be. You are solely responsible for helping them to remember to take their medications, helping them use the bathroom, helping them shower or take a bath, helping them to eat right and at the right time. The list goes on and on.

You surely do all these things gladly, because they are your parent and you love them. However, being the family caregiver can cause a lot of stress in the household. Maybe you feel as if you don’t get enough time to do your own things outside of caregiving, or maybe your husband or children feel a bit neglected.

If you or your family have been feeling this way, it might be time to look into hiring someone to help you. Home care aides are specifically trained to help to care for your aging parent to relieve some of the pressure that caretaking puts on you. Let’s take a look at some of the ways they can do this:

• Reminding your loved one to take their medications correctly and on time
• Helping to prepare meals for your loved one
• Helping them to get dressed
• Helping them shower or bathe
• Helping them in the bathroom
• Helping them brush their hair or teeth
• Helping them move about the house if they have problems with mobility
• Helping them keep their room or house clean
• Helping them to do other daily tasks

Home care aides are hired to assist your aging parent with almost anything they might need. This frees up a lot of your time, as you can trust them to do the things you are doing for them now. In that free time, you can go back to work, take up a hobby, spend more time with your other family members, or just simply get back to doing some of the things you liked to do before you became responsible for your parent’s care. You should not feel ashamed of needing time to yourself – everyone does. This doesn’t make you any less of good son or daughter than you were before. In fact, your relationship with your aging parent might even improve if you do not feel so overwhelmed with taking care of them 24/7!

Hiring a home care aide can pave the way to you and your parent having a lighter, closer relationship. You can spend time with them as you used to, as a family, along with your husband, wife, or children, eating together, talking together, and doing things together without it all being connected to you taking care of their needs.

And if you need more convincing that hiring a home care aide is the right choice for your aging parent, consider that many seniors with home care aides feel more independent in a way, because they don’t have to rely on their children to take care of them. It is always strange for adults to be taken care of by the children they used to take care of, so having someone else help them in their routine tasks can make them less tense, and can make you all more appreciative of the quality time you spend together.

If you or an aging loved one are considering homecare in New Brunswick, NJ, please contact the caring staff at Care Street Home Care of New Brunswick today. Call (732) 607-8870.