Quality of Life for Your Senior Citizen
It is important to remember that your parents were your caregivers when you were young. They were the ones who ensure that you were safe, clothed, well fed, and had the best medical care. They always obliged to spend money on you if it was needed. Being a caregiver, there is more than just providing food and shelter.
It is now you are turned to turn on the tables and take care of your parents. Your parents now need you as a caregiver who can provide them with the basics in life. As they move into their older years, they are now struggling to attend the basic needs of life.
You must be the one who can provide all that to your parents by giving them the right food and keeping them safe. Trivial things like keeping their clothes clean and taking responsibility of their medication will do a lot of good to you.
You also can manage their finances and ensure they are not cheated. By managing their finances, you can keep their work cut-off and help them a great deal.
Whether you can, as a caregiver, provide the factor known as “the quality of life” is a question. Your parents gave a lot to you making your childhood nostalgic and memorable. You had your times of joy, happiness, fun and laughter being part of a lovely family. It is because your parents went beyond a measure to make your life happy and peaceful.
In fact, you can still rejoice all your nostalgic memories of childhood with your parents even now. It was your parents who made your life fabulous and are responsible for all the fun in your childhood. They made sure your life was good and was rich all the way through. Those two people are the ones who now need your help. The people, who have made you what you are now, need assistance and care which you can provide as a caregiver.
So how do you enhance the life of your parents after their retirement years? If you can give them the joy and happiness, which once you got, it can be very pleasing. It can be a sweet pay back for all they did for so many years. Here are some of the things you can do to keep your parents lively and joyous…
- Take them for dinner every week. If you know when your parents reach home every day, take them for a surprise dinner. This could be very pleasing and enjoyable to them. Your parents are sure to enjoy this, and it will turn out to be a memorable day.
- Provide them ample family time. If you happen to live in the same town as your parents, it is expected of you to spend quality time with your parents to keep them rejuvenated. They will cherish every moment of it. Take them to churches or any school activity and make them feel comfortable. During holidays, make them do fun activities and keep them occupied.
- Make the springs and the summers a festive time for them. Surprise them often and if you could make your grandpa a Santa Clause it could be fun.
- Make their house a home. Being a caretaker, you will sometimes have to accept the responsibility of cleaning up the apartment for them. Do not stop with just cleaning. Stick nice and funny notes to keep them interested. Also stick their favorite cut-outs on the walls and shelves. Make them feel comfortable just like home and try to provide that air of freshness to that place.
If you can do all this to your parents, just like they provided you the fun, joy, and the sense of “home,” you can feel that you have given them a little back of what had been given to you in your childhood.
By repaying the love and the fun times to your elderly parents, there is a real value attached to it. These can rejuvenate your parent and can keep their health at bay. It is therapeutic and can help them relive their old times. Put on more effort to keep them incredibly happy and more importantly occupied and see them blossom in life.
Best Wishes, Coyalita
Behavioral Health Rehabilitative Specialist
See Tomorrow: “Taking Care of Yourself Is Part of The Job”
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