Caring for elderly loved ones is honorable and rewarding, but it can also be overwhelming and tiring. Being a primary caregiver usually starts with small everyday tasks, but it quickly becomes an all-consuming effort. Fortunately, respite care provides a richly deserved break.
Whether you need to handle other responsibilities, run errands, or take a mental health day, our short term care services give you the support you need. Call or click to learn about our community and how it can help.
Respite Care Benefits
Respite care offers short-term support and relief to family caregivers who need a break from their duties. A respite care provider can help with activities like:
- Bathing, dressing, and grooming
- Meal preparation
- Medication scheduling and management
When evaluating care options, most people think of how it will help them—but respite care can help seniors by offering the benefits listed below.
Improved Safety
While family caregivers may leave their elderly loved ones alone for a short time to handle other tasks, it’s a risky decision. Respite caregivers ensure that seniors don’t hurt themselves, wander off, or get into dangerous situations.
Successful Treatment Plans
Being with a senior loved one daily makes it harder to notice health issues as they arise. Respite caregivers can observe new symptoms, increasing the chances of a successful treatment plan.
Acquiring New Skills
Respite care providers often help seniors find and overcome challenges. In respite care, the elderly will receive the mental and physical stimulation they need to maintain self-sufficiency.
Making Friends
Staying social is crucial to our overall well-being and it can prevent older people from feeling isolated, lonely, and depressed. With respite care, seniors get the opportunity to form new social connections.
Getting Used to Senior Living
For the elderly, getting a taste of senior living during respite care will alleviate many concerns. When they receive respite care, your loved one may feel more at ease when moving into a senior living community.
Benefits for Caregivers
Knowing that elderly parents and loved ones rely on you daily can make it hard, if not impossible, to take time away to handle other responsibilities. Respite care offers numerous caregiver benefits, including:
- Catching a break. Caring for the senior in your life is rewarding, but also exhausting. Respite care will let you relax and recharge.
- Peace of mind.Quality care puts seniors in capable hands. While you enjoy a break, you can relax knowing that your parent or loved one is well cared for.
- Stronger relationships.Spending every day together can create friction that affects relationships. Respite care gives seniors and caregivers a break from each other. Familiarity breeds contempt, but respite care improves the quality of interactions and communication.
- A new perspective.Stepping back allows you to reorganize your thoughts and see things from a new perspective. With the space given by respite care, you may form new solutions and strategies for caring for your loved one.
Respite care gives caregivers access to new resources and people, and forming these connections creates a wider support network for you and the seniors in your life.
Let Us Show You the Benefits of Respite Care
We know how frightening it can be to turn over your loved one’s care to someone else. Through respite care, you can get professional support in a warm and welcoming environment. Complete our online form or call to learn about the many benefits of our short-term and respite care services for older adults.
