What Happens When An Aging Adult Needs Home Care Following a Hospital Discharge?
Learn how IOA Home Care helps families navigate the critical transition from hospital to home with compassionate, personalized support for aging adults.
Learn how IOA Home Care helps families navigate the critical transition from hospital to home with compassionate, personalized support for aging adults.
Gene Hackman’s passing sheds light on the often-overlooked struggles of caregivers, who dedicate themselves to the relentless demands of supporting loved ones with dementia. As public figures like Emma Heming Willis advocate for more resources, it’s clear that caregivers need greater recognition, support, and relief to safeguard both their well-being and the quality of care they provide.
2030 seems like the distant future, but it is only 12 years from the writing of this article—just as close in time as 2006.
Many people look forward to retirement for years. But when the time comes, they trade their old sources of stress for new ones.
When you moved out of the family home and set off on your own, your mother likely went through a mix of worry and excitement for you. Your challenges were new, and you were bound to make some mistakes on your way to figuring out adulthood. Now that she’s living alone and facing the challenges of later life, you’re likely going through your own worries, especially if you’re unable to act as a regular caregiver to support her independence.
The future of aging is about more grace, more opportunities, and greater happiness. In Los Altos, this future is possible now when we apply the best care and resources to support our aging loved ones. In the Bay Area, we are lucky to have innovative opportunities extend to our seniors who can use creative solutions to the new challenges they face with age. There are tech advances and tools designed for seniors to live more comfortably and actively. There are progressive services for older adults’ mental health and elder abuse prevention. And there is compassionate, convenient senior home care in Los Altos that not only supports older adults in all the areas where they need assistance at home, but also empowers them to be as independent as possible as they age in place.
The expansion of our senior population in the coming decades means new challenges for supporting each individual with their needs and their personal goals in later life. It also means new opportunities as these aging adults look for fitting ways to stay involved and serve their local San Francisco Bay Area communities. With a wealth of life experience and an investment in aging healthfully and vibrantly, seniors themselves may be an invaluable support system to help meet some of the challenges of the growing senior demographic.
Sometimes simple statements, filled with numbers and statistics and the flat, census-based declarations, contain within them an enormous reservoir of pain and suffering and loneliness. That’s probably why we keep them so dry and clinical: to avoid looking at the hurt. Here are a few:
If you were to ask most non-Californians where the Inland Empire was, they probably wouldn’t have an answer. It isn’t a place like Los Angeles or Napa or Silicon Valley that has mythical resonance in the ears of the country. Indeed, even most Californians, and maybe even most residents, wouldn’t be able to define exactly what Inland Empire really is.
Home care is a precious resource that helps aging adults age gracefully and comfortably in their own homes while preserving their dignity and helping them maintain a good quality of life. With home care, aging adults are able to easily carry out activities of daily living, receive help with food prep and medication management, and keep their home safe and tidy all for a fraction of the cost of living in a nursing home. As more and more aging adults opt to remain living at home into old age, home care is becoming a highly sought-after service.
Institute on Aging (IOA) CONNECT is your direct line to us and the starting point for help with your concerns about the needs of older adults and adults with disabilities. IOA CONNECT links you with our services, as well as community services available. Reach out to connect with us.
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