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How Can Family Caregivers Understand the Emotional Needs of Seniors?

Posted on by Craig Bass
Home Care in Las Vegas NV
Home Care in Las Vegas NV

Addressing physical needs for seniors is really important as they age, of course, but there are emotional needs that have to be met, too. Sometimes those emotional needs are unknown even for the aging adults themselves. It’s hard to face big changes, especially when they seem to be coming too quickly. One solution that can help is to hire home care providers to assist with underlying concerns.

Addressing Loneliness and Social Isolation

One of the most common issues facing aging adults is that they’re more likely to be lonely and dealing with social isolation. This happens because their social circle often shrinks due to friends moving, passing away, or becoming homebound. Family members may also be much busier and unable to visit often. As health changes keep seniors close to home, they’re even more likely to become isolated. Finding solutions for loneliness, like bringing in home care providers, can resolve a great many issues for seniors.

Watching for Depression and Anxiety

Seniors can also experience anxiety and depression. There are lots of potential causes for depression ranging from grief and loss to feeling helpless about life. Anxiety might be caused by changes in set routines, fear of injury, or even worries about losing independence. All of these issues are very real and valid concerns, even if the likelihood of them impacting someone seem small. What matters is that the person is able to talk to someone about how they’re feeling. Often family caregivers need to just be there for their aging adults.

Protecting Against Loss of Independence

Independence is something that seniors treasure, and for good reason. Being able to continue to live on their own terms, and often in their own homes, is crucial. Often this is a reason for seniors to avoid accepting help, sometimes even from family members. Elder care providers are able to help seniors manage daily life without harming their sense of independence at all.

Preventing Loss of Identity

In the prime of life, people tend to feel as if they know who they are. Their identity might be wrapped up in what they do for a living or in their relationships with other people. As they age, they may feel as if they start to lose that identity because aging brings changes that are difficult to predict. Family caregivers can help to prevent loss of identity by encouraging seniors to participate in the activities that align with their preferences and interests.

Working through Fear of the Future

There can be a lot of fear in aging. Seniors may worry that their family members won’t be able to take care of them or that their own health will worsen significantly. Whatever their worries are, seniors need to know that they’re heard. Asking about those fears and working through solutions ahead of time can help.

Seniors have some big emotional and psychological needs and family caregivers can do a lot more for the people they love than they might think. Sometimes the key is to bring in home care providers to offer practical help where it makes sense to do so.

If you are considering home care in Las Vegas, NV, for an aging loved one, please contact the caring staff at Golden Heart Senior Care of Summerlin. 702-800-4616.

Employee of the Month

Posted on by Craig Bass

Golden Brook Residential Care Home, a sister company to Golden Heart Senior Care, is proud to announce that Osiris H. has been awarded the Employee of the Quarter for the 1st Quarter 2023.

Osiris has been married for 19 years with three beautiful children and 9 wonderful grandchildren. He is originally from Ohio and has lived in Las Vegas for the past 8 years.

Osiris has been a caregiver for many years from working with seniors who have Dementia and Alzheimer’s to children that have been abused along with mental health challenges. He also worked as a truck driver driving big rigs.

Osiris enjoys being a caregiver because it feels like giving back to humanity, also caregiving has its own heavenly rewards.

Golden Brook is very proud to have Osiris on its team!!

Golden Heart Senior Care Featured on Las Vegas Morning Blend

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Golden Heart Senior Care was proud to be featured on the Morning Blend on Channel 13 Las Vegas. Community Liaison Joyce Kreus discussed the many benefits of compassionate home care and the important process of matching seniors and their caregivers.

 

Click here to watch the entire segment!

How Valuable Can Home Care Be for Your Senior?

Posted on by Craig Bass
Home Care in Las Vegas NV
Home Care in Las Vegas NV

Home care is an essential service designed to help older adults age at home without risking their safety. It includes services that ensure the things your mom needs to do every day aren’t overlooked. Have you ever thought about the value of home care?

Your Mom’s Home is Clean and Organized

As her mobility changes, your mom is doing some routine household chores less often. She used to sweep her dog’s crumbs and fur each day, but now she’s waiting a week or two. You often do it when you’re there just to make sure it gets done.

Caregivers can dust, vacuum, and disinfect surfaces. They can water her plants, take out the trash and recyclables, and organize the mail. Her caregivers can also change her dirty sheets, make the bed with new ones, and do the laundry. Once clothing and items are clean and dry. They’re folded and put away, too.

Meals Are Prepared for Her

A recent news article came out stating that frozen pizzas are one of the worst dinners for people. The sugar content in the pizza sauce, processed ingredients in the crust, fat in the cheese and meats, and nitrates in items like pepperoni and sausage make it a poor choice. Yet, older adults also find pizza is a very easy food to make on their own.

If your mom has a hard time cooking meals for one and relies on frozen dinners, pizzas, and canned soup, it’s time to address her eating habits. Find out what she’d like to eat and arrange to have a home care aide make these meals each week. Caregivers can also plan her menu, take your mom shopping, and put groceries away.

Your Mom Isn’t Alone

Your mom often complains about feeling isolated and lonely. With her friends all moved to different areas to be closer to family, your mom’s social circle is non-existent. She relies on you and your sister to keep her company, but you both have jobs and families of your own.

Instead of leaving your mom alone all week, have home care aides stopping by to keep her company. While there, her caregiver can clean her home, cook meals, do the laundry, or take her out.

Your Mom Has Help Running Errands

Grocery shopping, post office trips, and pharmacy visits are hard to do for some people, and with your mom’s changing vision, they’re impossible. She can’t read paperwork, nutritional labels, or other important documents without help. A home care aide can join her and read forms aloud when needed.

Now that you see how home care helps your mom maintain her independence while aging, make sure she has the help she needs. Caregivers can support her by offering rides to stores, cooking meals for her, or cleaning her home. Talk to a home care specialist to get prices and a list of services in your mom’s town.

If you are considering home care in Las Vegas, NV, for an aging loved one, please contact the caring staff at Golden Heart Senior Care of Summerlin. 702-800-4616.

Employee of the Month – September 2022

Posted on by Craig Bass

Please join us in welcoming Kayla A. as Golden Heart’s September 2022 Employee of the Month.

Kayla is an AMAZING caregiver and a pleasure to work with. She always greets you with a big smile when you meet her.

Kayla is from Grand Rapids, Michigan, and is married to a wonderful man named John. She also has a beautiful daughter.

She began her caregiver career more than 10 years ago, started in a nursing home working with seniors. Kayla enjoys being a caregiver because it’s very rewarding to to make a difference in the life of her clients.

We want to congratulate Kayla in becoming the September 2022 Golden Heart Employee of the Month!

6 Tips for Caring for Your Senior in Extreme Heat

Posted on by Craig Bass
Home care in Las Vegas NV
Home care in Las Vegas NV

Summer is wonderful, except when the heat gets to be unbearable. If that’s what your senior is experiencing, you might want to try some of these ideas for cooling her down a bit. Overheating is the earliest sign that heat-related illnesses are on the way, so doing everything that you can to keep your senior as cool as possible is vital.

Talk with Your Senior’s Doctor

Set aside some time to talk with your elderly family member’s doctor about her individual risk factors around heat. This can help you to understand how your senior’s health is affected by hot weather. It also can help you to put together a plan for managing unexpected reactions to heat.

Prioritize Hydration

Hydration is your elderly family member’s best tool against heat. Ideally, she needs to sip water all day long instead of chugging it at once. Spreading out her water intake throughout the day helps to ensure that as she sweats and urinates, her water stockpiles are being consistently replenished. It might be helpful to ask your senior’s doctor how much water she should be drinking each day.

Look at Medication Side Effects

Some medications have some side effects related to hot weather and that might be a big problem for your elderly family member. If it’s been a while since you read the patient leaflets for her medications, you might have forgotten about some of those side effects. Either flip through those leaflets or talk with your senior’s pharmacist about how her medications may be affected by hot weather.

Time Activities Carefully

It’s vital that your elderly family member isn’t trying to do too much in the hottest parts of the day. By timing her activities carefully, you can help her to avoid overheating. Home care providers can help your elderly family member to stay on target with routines that allow her to rest during the hotter times of the day.

Keep Curtains Closed During the Day

Closing windows and curtains can do a lot more to keep your senior’s home cool than she might realize. Even a couple of degrees can make a big difference in how she feels. Home care professionals can help your elderly family member to keep up with little details like this that can help her to stay cooler.

Offer Cool Showers or Baths Before Bed

Before bed, your elderly family member might feel too hot from the day. Taking a cool shower or bath before bed can help to lower her body temperature and make it easier to sleep. If you’re not able to be there with her, home care providers can assist your elderly family member with safely cooling down before she heads to bed.

The dog days of summer might stick around for a lot longer than most people want them to be there, but there are things your senior can try that can help her to stay cooler. Try some of these ideas and see if they help her to be more comfortable.

If you are considering home care in Las Vegas, NV, for an aging loved one, please contact the caring staff at Golden Heart Senior Care of Summerlin. 702-800-4616.

Employee of the Month – Anita B.

Posted on by Craig Bass

Please join us in congratulating Anita B. as Golden Heart’s Employee of the Month for August 2022. Anita is from Myanmar Burma and is married with one daughter and one grandson. Anita has been a caregiver for more than three years. She enjoys being a caregiver because it brings her joy to be able to help seniors and she is blessed to be able to work with such wonderful people.

Golden Heart thanks Anita for being such an amazing team member and wonderful person!

Employee of the Month – July 2022

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Golden Heart Senior Care is proud to announce that Thanalaxmi J. is our employee of the month for July 2022.

Thanalaxmi is from Malaysia. She is married and has two wonderful boys. She enjoys being a caregiver because she loves hearing stories from her clients past and where people grew up and different adventures people have been on. Thanalaxmi always has a smile on her face and joy in her heart.

Golden Heart is very luck to have Thanalaxmi on our team!

Employee of the Month – June 2022

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Golden Heart Senior Care is proud to announce that Cynthia F. is our Employee of the Month for June 2022.

Cynthia is from Birmingham, Alabama, she is married with three children, 12 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren. Cynthia has been a caregiver ever since age of 17. She enjoys her job because of all the wonderful people she gets to care for and the families she gets to meet.

Her personal quote is ”Jesus is love and love is the greatest gift of all.”

Thank you Cynthia for having a “Golden Heart” and being our June 2022 Employee of the Month!!

May 2022 Employee of the Month

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Golden Heart Senior Care is proud to announce that Roxana M. is our May 2022 Employee of the Month.

Roxana is originally from El Salvador and is married with two boys. Roxana has been a caregiver for two years with experience as a CNA. She enjoys working and helping people who can’t help themselves. She puts herself in their shoes and tries to understand what they are going through and how they are feeling.

Roxana is looking forward to returning to school sometime in the future and continue her education in the medical field.

We want to thank Roxana for being a valued Golden Heart employee!