It’s just about time for your loved one to leave the hospital and continue her healing in a nice home environment. Perhaps you’ve offered to have your loved one come stay with you and she’s refused. Maybe she wants to stay in her own home and recover because her pets are there, or she is desperately missing her pillows and blankets. If your elderly loved one wants to recuperate at home, it might make you anxious about how she’ll manage the recovery in her own home but there are steps you can take to help ensure she has what she needs for a successful home recovery. Hiring a live-in home care provider could help in a situation like this.
Planning Ahead
Your elderly loved one might be convinced that she won’t need some of these resources but having them ready for her transition can prevent you from having to scramble at the last minute to provide what your loved one needs during this recovery period. If you desire to get her some live-in home care for part or all of her recovery time, arranging that now will ensure you can find the trained professionals you need.
Tips for Preparing the Home for Recovery
Determine where most of the recovery time will be spent. For many, it’s between two places – the bedroom for sleeping at night, and a daytime place where they can rest and take needed naps. Both places should have a bathroom within several paces (and no stairs to climb). If they don’t, consider adding a portable commode to one room. Once you know where your loved one will recover, then it’s time to prepare those areas.
Install or gather needed equipment. Your loved one might need a special bed to sleep in or a walker to use to get from the bedroom to the bathroom. Her bathroom may need support railings placed near the toilet or tub. Homes are not always designed to be accommodating to medical equipment so make sure everything she needs to use fits.
Make the rooms feel comfortable and welcoming. Since your loved one will be spending more time than normal in her recovery rooms, make sure they have everything she needs to feel comfortable and relaxed. Items such as phones, a water bottle, the remote, a good book, and whatever else she wants should be within easy reach.
Prepare for Pet Care. While your loved one will enjoy all of the kitty cuddles and doggy kisses she can during recovery, her pets still need to be cared for and that may be more work than she’s able to do. Determine who will help with walking the dogs, changing the kitty litter, or even feeding the fish. A live-in home care provider can help ensure those pets are well cared for in addition to being well loved.
Plan for Meals. Having a live-in home care provider there to assist with each meal is a great way to guarantee your loved one will eat the foods recommended by her doctor for recovery.
No one knows what home recovery will look like. It might have many fewer complications than you envisioned or it might be tougher than either you or your loved one thought. It’s better to be safe than sorry and having a solid plan that includes temporary live-in home care is a great way to help everyone feel better about this transition time.
If you or an aging loved one is considering Live-In Home Care Services in Stockton NJ please get in touch with the caring staff at Expert Home Care today at (732) 937-5320.
Providing exceptional live-in home care in New Jersey, including Monroe Township, Edison, New Brunswick, Red Bank, Lakewood, Princeton, Morristown, Flemington, Stockton, Bridgewater, Hillsborough, Montclair, Livingston, Summit, and surrounding communities.
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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