Planning visits for seniors with Alzheimer’s disease can feel a lot more complicated than it used to. The reasons for that are often related to what the different people involved expect from these visits and how disruptive these visits are for seniors. Alzheimer’s home care providers can help families plan better visits for their seniors with Alzheimer’s disease. This is important because these visits help seniors get the social engagement they need with people they care about.
Setting a Positive Tone
When the overall environment is as positive as possible, that can help quite a lot. Creating a welcoming and happy experience is important. Preparing visitors by letting them know what to expect allows them to get used to the changes they might see in the seniors they love. They need to understand that seniors with Alzheimer’s disease tend to have good days as well as bad ones. Simplifying the situation as much as possible can help.
Choosing Activities to Do
For so many visits, it can help a lot to have a specific activity in mind. Activities like reminiscing, engaging in simple crafts, or doing puzzles and games together can help. For seniors who love to be outside, spending time in the yard or garden might be a good idea. Watching favorite movies or television shows can also be helpful.
Alzheimer’s home care providers can help narrow down ideas that fit with the senior’s existing routine.
Creating a Calm Environment
If the visit environment is hectic or full of distractions, it will be much more complicated than it needs to be. Reducing noise and helping to keep the visit calm can help reduce anxiety for everyone involved. This also allows everyone to focus on why they’re there: to spend time with the seniors they love.
Maintaining Routines as Much as Possible
Alzheimer’s home care providers help seniors establish routines that support their needs and make their lives easier. Unfortunately, visits with people they love might interfere a bit with those routines. What can help is to try to make visits part of the routine.
The same visitor might not be able to make it every time, but having a specific day of the week or time of day set aside for visits can help quite a lot.
Keeping the Situation Friendly
Limiting group sizes is one way to help seniors avoid feeling overwhelmed by visitors. Staggering visits or encouraging some people to wait in another room and swapping out can be less overwhelming for seniors with Alzheimer’s disease.
Alzheimer’s home care providers can help families stay aware of nonverbal cues that indicate seniors might be overwhelmed and need to cut a visit short. This helps ensure that seniors associate visits with positive experiences, which means they’re more able to enjoy those events.
Planning visits properly helps seniors with Alzheimer’s disease to have better overall experiences with visitors. Alzheimer’s home care providers can help family caregivers ensure that they’re putting visits together in a way that helps seniors have fun and get the social engagement they need and want.
If you or an aging loved one are considering Alzheimer’s Home Care in Pacific Beach, CA, please contact the caring staff at Aaron Home Care. (619) 880-5522
A Trusted Home Care Agency Serving La Jolla, Pacific Beach, Point Loma, San Diego, UTC, La Mesa, Chula Vista, Coronado, Bonita, Eastlake, and the surrounding areas.
In 1999, Aaron was named Residential Program Manager of a group home for disabled adults in Arlington, Virgina. Here, he built a reputation for being compassionate with his clients and efficient in company operations. In the years that followed, Washington DC’s human services field went through unprecedented reform when the city was fined $11 million for the previously unchecked abuse, neglect, and exploitation of the very population it was supposed to protect. In 2005, Aaron was selected by a watchdog company to co-create and implement a monitoring system to safeguard and advocate for the system’s most vulnerable residents. This system is still in use today.
Aaron is now using his unique gifts and profound experience in the human service field to provide San Diego County Seniors with dependable, compassionate caregivers through Aaron Home Care.
He currently serves on the board of the San Diego Regional Home Care Council and is an active member of the Senior Advocate Network of San Diego.
Aaron Home Care is a member of the American Board of Home Care and is accredited by the Better Business Bureau.
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