4 Key Questions To Ask Yourself Before Setting Up Elderly Care
Discover some questions people should ask themselves—but often don’t—before setting up elderly care for themselves or a loved one in the Greater Richmond Area.
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1. Where Do You Want To Receive Elderly Care?
Location is a great place to start when thinking about elderly care. Do you or does your loved one want to be in a long-term care center or in your/their own Greater Richmond Area home? There are plenty of great long-term care facilities across the Commonwealth of Virginia. These include nursing homes for those with high-level needs, assisted living communities for those who want care but can still manage much of their own lives, and Alzheimer’s, dementia, and memory care homes for those with neurodegenerative diseases or brain injuries.
Always Best Care of Richmond offers assisted living placements. We’ll meet you and/or your loved one for a free consultation in your/their Norfolk home. We’ll assess your health and personal needs and recommend one or more assisted living communities in the Greater Richmond Area that can meet those needs. Or, we can provide in-home elderly care.
2. How Are You With The Activities Of Daily Living?
At Always Best Care of Richmond, we can provide all the care available in an assisted living community right in your own Greater Richmond Area home. This includes help with the activities of daily living. These tasks aren’t difficult for young, non-disabled people, but they’re often challenging for others. These activities include getting around the house, preparing and eating meals, showering, and using the toilet. Our personal caregivers can help with all these activities and more.
3. How Is Your/Their Mental Health?
Discussions about mental health are often tricky. But these discussions are necessary because mental health is every bit as important as physical health. We often focus on physical challenges because they’re often easy to see. However, many seniors face mental health challenges that aren’t so easy to notice. These include problems such as loneliness, depression, and forgetfulness. Always Best Care of Richmond can provide a companion caregiver to talk with seniors, accompany them to appointments and events, go through photo albums with them, and monitor their wellbeing.
4. How Painful Are Household Chores?
Elderly care doesn’t have to save lives to be worthwhile; it can also make life more convenient. Our home helper caregivers can do household chores and run errands for our clients. This means seniors can live in clean and tidy homes without worrying about difficult chores.
Contact Always Best Care Of Richmond For A Free Consultation.
To learn more about elderly care in the Greater Richmond Area of Virginia, please contact us through our website or by calling us at 804-431-3041.
