Cold and flu season is always a big problem, and if your elderly family member has health issues that make her more susceptible to respiratory illnesses, it’s important to help her to avoid them. These ideas and having home care assistance services might help.
Hydrate and Eat Plenty of Nutritious Foods
Proper hydration helps your elderly family member’s body to keep functioning properly, which is especially important if it’s fighting off germs. Nutritious meals ensure that her body has the building blocks it needs, including plenty of vitamins and minerals that are essential in keeping the body healthy. Having home care assistance providers take over meal prep for your senior can be a huge help with this.
Get Some Exercise
If your elderly family member is cleared for exercise by her doctor, it’s a good idea. Even a little bit of exercise every day helps to keep your senior’s body moving and limber. It also helps with mood regulation, which can be tougher during the colder winter months.
Talk to Your Senior’s Doctor about Vaccines
Something else to talk to your senior’s doctor about is whether any of a variety of vaccines are right for her. The flu vaccine is targeted every year to the versions of the flu that are expected to be most prominent. And vaccines like the pneumonia vaccine can help protect against the germs that could lead to a bout of pneumonia.
Wash Hands and Avoid People Who Are Sick
Hand washing is such a simple task and yet it does so much to reduce the likelihood of illness. Prompt your senior to wash her hands often and properly. It also helps if your elderly family member is able to avoid people who are sick as much as possible. Home care assistance providers can help a lot with all of these issues.
Avoid Crowds, if Possible, and Hire Home Care Assistance Services
Another important factor in avoiding colds and flu can also be to avoid being around a lot of people in public. There’s no way to know if there’s anyone in the crowd who is sick and being around a lot of people means that there’s plenty of opportunity to catch some germs. Home care assistance services could be an answer, because your senior isn’t alone at home and she has the help that she needs.
You may also want to ask your senior’s doctor what else can be done to help your senior to stay as well as possible.
If you or an aging loved-one is considering Home Care Assistance Services in Red Bank NJ please contact the caring staff at Expert Home Care today at (732) 937-5320.
We have been providing Home Health Care to New Jersey families since 1985, and have grown to become one of the largest licensed providers of Live-In Home Care in the upper New Jersey area. Our many years of New Jersey home care experience has produced a company that over 8,000 clients have come to rely on confidently, for help.
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