Common Challenges Adult Children Face When Caring For Their Aging Parents
We understand how challenging it can be to care for an aging parent. These challenges are why many families invest in a skilled in-home caregiver. The most common challenges we help Adult Children face include the following:
- Assisting parents with Daily Tasks
- Ensuring Parents Safety
- Dealing with Health Issues
- Dealing with Financial Matters
- Providing Quality of Living
- Providing Emergency Assistance
Here's what most Adult Children face as their Parent's age:
An aging adult's health and financial security are more vulnerable later in life, and we will all require more assistance as we age. In addition to providing the proper healthcare and ensuring quality living, caring for aging parents also requires being able to provide emergency assistance, especially if they have severe health issues or are bedridden. At some point, elderly parents will need help with their daily tasks, including managing the house, dealing with finances, shopping, meal preparation, etc. Advancing age and chronic conditions make older adults weak and vulnerable and call for regular monitoring, medication, and sometimes even emergency assistance.
Degenerative illness may also cause some older adult to lose their capacity to manage personal care, and many adult children decide the investment in a skilled caregiver is best. Having skilled care or non-medical care can reduce hospitalizations and readmission and keep everyone safer and happier.
Working adult children with aging parents at home face difficulties being available for them all the time, so adult children need to "ensure a viable healthcare support system for their parents." When adult children need support is when BrightStar Care shines. If you are overwhelmed by caregiving, we understand and can help with hourly visits to short-term respite care or full-time caregiving and home nursing. Every client's care is overseen by a Registered Nurse and personalized to meet the family's needs.
BrightStar Care of Morris and Essex Counties is an award-winning, RN Led, Joint Commission accredited Home Health Care and Medical Staffing Agency providing 24/7 to hourly Private Duty Nurses, CNAs, Caregivers, and Companions.
We offer support around the clock, providing care in homes, hospitals, assisted living communities, skilled nursing facilities, and medical offices. We proudly serve Morristown, Madison, Rockaway, Florham Park, Flanders, Montclair, Livingston, and Whippany..
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