Helping Your Loved One Keep Her Home Clean

If you’ve noticed on the past few visits to your elderly loved one that her home is not as clean as it used to be, it might be because she’s struggling to keep up with daily chores or tasks. The struggles can be from the physical inability to do certain tasks, the cognitive ability to remember how to perform certain tasks, or the mental health issues that are making taking care of her home difficult.

While you may be able to help her a bit with her home care, you might find that having a professional trained in homemaker services can be a great way to let your loved one continue to live independently by filling in the gaps that she is currently struggling to keep up with.

Benefits of a Clean Home

While having a home look nice is “nice,” there are other essential benefits to a clean home and homemaker services.

• Improved Mental State: A clean home can help a person feel less stressed and more at peace while resting around the house. Chaos and mess can cause mental stress when viewed and make a person feel incompetent or create other feelings of low self-worth.
• Reduced Injury Risk: A clean home that doesn’t have items on the floor to trip over, drawers sticking out, or cupboards left open presents a lower chance of injury due to falls or bumps and scrapes.
• Reduced Risk of Illness: A clean home with food spills cleaned up and the refrigerator regularly cleaned out will reduce the risk of foodborne illnesses, which could come from bacteria in food items that have gone bad. Even dusting and vacuuming can help prevent symptoms of asthma and other respiratory problems.

Homemaker Services for Seniors

There are several areas around the home where you can have a homemaker services professional come in and assist your loved one several times a week. You can decide what areas your loved one needs the most assistance with by talking to her and observing the home. Gently make suggestions; you may have to start with just one area. Have your loved one see how that goes; she might then agree to help more.

Light Housekeeping

Homemaker services can come to your loved one’s home and help her with chores around the house that she may not be able to continue performing independently. They can help with tasks such as dusting, sweeping, and general cleaning up. If laundry or ironing is difficult for your loved one, homemaker services providers can help with those chores as well, so she always has clean clothes ready to wear.

Food Prep and Meals

There can be a lot of steps to make sure your loved one eats right. From making a complete grocery list to putting the food away correctly to then making it into a healthy meal, it can become overwhelming for some elderly individuals, causing them to only rely on frozen meals or takeout. A homemaker services provider can step in and help your loved one so that she’ll have fresh and healthy food to enjoy each day.

Errand Running

If your loved one is struggling with driving, having a homemaker services provider help take her to the grocery store or the pharmacist can be a great way to make sure important errands are not forgotten.

If you or an aging loved one are considering Homemaker Services in Bethel, OH, please contact the caring staff at Freedom Home Care today at (513) 461-2780

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