Can In-Home Care Promote a Healthy Aging Process for Seniors?

Edmonton Senior Health  |  August 8, 2017

What Every Senior in Edmonton, AB, Needs to Know About A Healthy Aging Process

Healthy Aging | As your elderly loved one reaches their golden years, they can age more or less gracefully.  We have some tips to help make the process as conducive to good health as possible.

Healthy Aging Tips for Seniors

Tip #1. Eat Healthy:

We’re sure your loved one has been told this enough times.  But whether Mom or Dad is a bit willful or…just human, they’ll have a hard time sticking to that kale and baked salmon routine.  We’ve found that home care providers help with this by cooking with your loved one.  Sharing meals, as you know, leads to solid nutrition rather than loads of high-calorie comfort food.

Tip #2. Practice Prevention:

It’s so important for our elderly not to let checkups blood tests and other preventative measures fall through the cracks.  Further, prevention can mean medicine, in addition to vitamin supplements and a healthy diet.  Prevention can mean a lot of things, but all of them benefit from a few reminders.

Home care often involves a gentle touch.  Because our caregivers are in the home with your loved one, they build a bond and trust.  They’re the right ones, not to manage your mom or dad’s health life, but to provide reminders and to ensure prevention is in place.

Is Home Care Good For A Senior’s Social Life?

Our next two tips center around the emotional well-being of your loved one.

Tip #3. Friendship and Companionship:

When an elderly person is in an elder care facility, he or she may have quite a few friends.  However, a healthcare provider involved in-home care is a close friend who is around your loved one for an extended period of time.  This sort of relationship can be more meaningful and can raise morale.  At the very least it will ward off loneliness.

Tip #4. Remain Active:

The home care your loved one will receive from Comfort Keepers will involve transportation and activities that your family member may enjoy.  This keeps a person young at heart.

Comfort Keepers® Edmonton is Proud to Offer a Wide Range of Home Senior Care Services

Our trained caregivers will ensure your loved one is comfortable, independent and safe in their home. On top of that, we will also aim to enhance their overall health, quality of life and general happiness. 

Top-Notch Home Healthcare for Seniors in Edmonton, Alberta

Comfort Keepers of Edmonton offers a broader range of senior care services. We offer retirement care, respite care, senior care, companionship care, end-of-life care, post-surgery care, palliative care, personal care, and senior living transition services. If you are concerned about the health and well-being of your aging loved ones, we can provide 24-hour care and more!

Helping Seniors Age-in-Place with Companionship Care and Interactive Caregiving™

Empathetic care starts in the heart and allows us to meet our client’s needs. Our trained caregivers are selected with one specific quality in mind, empathy. We strive to stimulate our clients emotionally, mentally and socially, thus enhancing their overall quality of life. 

Our Interactive Caregiving™ provides a system of care that addresses companionship, safety, nutrition, mind, body, and activities of daily living (ADLs). The system increases seniors’ sense of well-being, independence and companionship by focusing on Senior Mind, Senior Body, Senior Nutrition, and Senior Safety.

Affordable and Client-Directed Homecare is Available for Qualifying Albertans

Comfort Keepers® Edmonton is an Approved Service Provider for the Client Directed Homecare Invoicing (CDHCI) Program Offered by Alberta Health Services. 

What is the Client Directed Home Care Invoicing Program (CDHCI)?

CDHCI is a great program provided by Alberta Health Services (AHS), allowing clients to choose an approved agency like Comfort Keepers Edmonton for Personal Care, Respite Care and Homemaking needs. The chosen agency can then bill AHS directly for services rendered for approved hours through Alberta Blue Cross. Read more about the program HERE.

Accredited Home Care Edmonton

Comfort Keepers® Edmonton was awarded the “Accredited with Exemplary Standing” seal by Accreditation Canada. This honour demonstrates Comfort Keepers’ commitment to offering safe, high-quality home care to its senior clients in Edmonton, AB.

To learn more about senior in-home care in Edmonton, contact the Comfort Keepers® office. Our service territory includes Edmonton, Devon, Sherwood Park, Stony Plain and surrounding areas, contact the Comfort Keepers Edmonton office at 780-465-4665.

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