We always hope that our parents will be healthy and live independently forever, but the unfortunate reality is that they take care of us early in our early lives and we often reciprocate it later. However, at a certain stage, it can become too much to handle alone.
When they require more help than you can provide while you’re working full-time, you may consider an assisted living community as a viable solution.
Here are 4 ways to know when it might be the right time and the best option for your mother or father.
- Getting Around is Becoming More Difficult
Many seniors aren’t happy using online shopping solutions. While some have adapted to buying over the internet, many still prefer to go personally to do their weekly shop.
The problem is when they need to drive out to the store and may no longer feel comfortable doing so with diminishing eyesight or hip problems. Taxis can get expensive as an alternative too.
Also, wheeling food out to the car or taxi and lifting it in/out of the trunk isn’t as easy as it used to be. Pretty soon, shopping becomes more difficult to accomplish on their own.
- A Few Too Many Kitchen Accidents
Determining when an assisted living community might be a good option is possibly when they’ve had several unfortunate accidents in the kitchen.
Sliding or lifting a boiling pot of water from one hob to an adjacent one to make space to fry an egg could have led to it tipping over and scalding them. Pulling a tray of food from the oven might now be too heavy too.
Bear in mind that not all accidents are ones that they will volunteer to tell you
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