A Child’s
Guide to Eldercare
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Table of Contents
When does it Begin
Financial Issues
Who Takes Responsibility?
Who Becomes the Caregiver?
Accelerating Care Needs
If Long Term Care is an Option
Medical Care
Nutritional Needs in the Elderly
Moving Day
Dealing with Elderly Depression
Safe Driving
Elder Safety
Understand Confusion
Know the Professionals
Take Care of the Caregiver
When does it Begin
Caring for your parents---when does it begin?
Parents are heroic people; they bring children into this world, feed them,
nurture and love them and accept their idiosyncrasies no matter what. They
sacrifice time and effort to take care of their children and make sure they grow
up to be caring and responsible individuals.
Parents are superheroes because they can be everything their children want them
to be. They can be happy for their children even when they are actually feeling
sad and burdened by the daily challenge of keeping their family above the water
when times are hard.
Parents are a very important part of the lives of their children because they
are responsible for molding these clay-like individuals into what they will
become in the future. No person could have managed to become what he is without
the support of his parents.
But what happens to parents when they have reared their children and their
children lead lives of their own? Parents are human beings and they succumb to
old age and health problems that come with being old. Who will take care of them
when they become frail and can no longer work to care for themselves?
While parents do not really impose on their children, the latter have a moral
responsibility to take care of their parents when they can no longer fend for
themselves. It is not so much paying back their efforts to rear their children
but has more to do with returning the love that they gave their children when
they were still helpless babies until the present when they are already
independent beings.
The ideal situation is for parents to prepare for their retirement by resorting
to a good retirement or financial management plan. This way, the parents no
longer have to totally rely on their children to take care of their financial
and other needs when they are already retired.
There are parents who have prepared well for their retirement and have made
investments that can already financially support them and the things they like
when they grow old. Some parents who were wise enough to prepare for the future
spend their retirement days traveling and doing things they did not have time to
do before.
But how can a person know if his parents are already in need of his support?
Modern times and the modern way of living have somehow lessened family ties. A
person who has elderly parents should make an effort to live closer to home or
to visit them regularly to check on them or just to let them know they are being
thought of.
When parents sickly and/or forgetful, then the children should make some
provisions for them. If the children cannot regularly be with their parents then
they should get quality healthcare and assisted living for them. This could be
quite a struggle especially if parents insist they are still strong and can
still take care of themselves when the reality is that they are unable to do so.
Americans have become accustomed to being placed in institutions when they
become too old to take care of themselves. However, this is unthinkable for some
people who have been reared up under close family ties. In other countries, the
children make sure their parents live with them so they can take care of them
personally.
A person will know when his parents are already in need of closer attention when
they start to notice remarkable changes in their attitudes and personal hygiene.
Parents who usually dress well and are sociable may be at the brink of
desperation and loneliness when they start to become recluses and refuse to be
included in family occasions.
It is also wise to monitor the cupboard and the refrigerator of elderly parents
to make sure they have enough stock and they are eating the right kind of food.
It is time to worry when their refrigerator show signs of failure to buy
groceries and other food for their daily subsistence. This could mean they have
forgotten to shop for their groceries or they are taking their mealtimes for
granted .
Parents who have gotten accustomed to being independent may find a hard time
adjusting to that period when they require care from another adult. This takes a
lot of patience and every child should invest his time and effort in making sure
his parents are given the same love and affection they showered on him when he
was still a helpless child.
To be continued
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