{"id":1977,"date":"2020-07-10T09:30:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T14:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heartsathome.com\/san-antonio\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2020-07-10T09:30:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T14:30:42","slug":"in-home-stone-oak-tx-four-steps-toward-aging-in-place-for-your-senior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heartsathome.com\/san-antonio\/in-home-stone-oak-tx-four-steps-toward-aging-in-place-for-your-senior\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Steps Toward Aging in Place for Your Senior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The phrase <em><strong>\u201caging in place\u201d<\/strong> <\/em>refers to helping your elderly family member to continue to live in her own home for as long as she\u2019s able to do so. This goal may be easily achievable, or your senior may need more help than she expects to make this happen.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Find Out What Your Senior Needs Now and Will Need Later<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1978\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1978\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1978\" src=\"https:\/\/heartsathome.com\/san-antonio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/bigstock-caregiver-53343577-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"In-Home Stone Oak TX - Four Steps Toward Aging in Place for Your Senior\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heartsathome.com\/san-antonio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/bigstock-caregiver-53343577-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/heartsathome.com\/san-antonio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/bigstock-caregiver-53343577-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/heartsathome.com\/san-antonio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/bigstock-caregiver-53343577-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/heartsathome.com\/san-antonio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/bigstock-caregiver-53343577-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/heartsathome.com\/san-antonio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/bigstock-caregiver-53343577.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In-Home Stone Oak TX &#8211; Four Steps Toward Aging in Place for Your Senior<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In order to keep your senior at home, where she wants to stay, you\u2019re going to have to make sure she\u2019s supported in that goal. The best way to start out doing that is to figure out what she needs right now to make that happen. Her doctor can help you to assess what will help in the beginning and later. Because you can\u2019t stop with now. There are going to be needs down the line, and it\u2019s important to prepare for those now, if possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Determine How Many of Those Needs You Can Meet<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a certain percentage of your elderly family member\u2019s needs that you\u2019re going to be able to meet. Talking to her doctor for her, making sure she\u2019s eating well, and helping her to handle regular daily tasks may all be needs that you can help her to meet. There may be other ways you can assist, too. It\u2019s important for you to make sure you understand and honor your own limitations. If you don\u2019t, that puts your own mental and physical health at risk down the line.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Look for Ways to Fill the Gap Between the Two<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Once you have a greater understanding of what your senior\u2019s needs are and will be, you can take a closer look at where any gaps exist between those and what you\u2019re able to do. Between you and other family members, you may be able to cover quite a bit of what needs to be taken care of. But there may be other situations that are out of your range of experience. That\u2019s when in-home care providers can be incredibly helpful, both to you and to your senior.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Keep an Eye on the Situation<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s tempting to believe that once you solve the situation you\u2019re facing right now, it\u2019s going to stay solved. But that\u2019s not how all of this works, unfortunately. You\u2019re likely going to have to keep an eye on what works and what doesn\u2019t, making changes as necessary to account for changes in your senior\u2019s needs. That\u2019s a lot easier to do with help in place, and in-home care providers can help you to make those adjustments.<\/p>\n<p>Your elderly family member might do all the right things and still not be able to age in place. It\u2019s not a failure on her part or on yours to need to move at some point. It would simply mean you\u2019re doing everything possible to meet your senior\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n<h4>If you or an aging loved-one are considering <em><a href=\"https:\/\/heartsathome.com\/san-antonio\/our-caregivers\/\">In-Home Care Services in Stone Oak TX<\/a><\/em>, please contact the caring staff at Hearts at Home Senior Care. Call us today\u00a0713-515-2567. We serve all of the Houston area.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In-Home Stone Oak TX-The phrase \u201caging in place\u201d refers to helping your elderly family member to continue to live in her own home for as long as she\u2019s able to do so. 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