How to Choose Alzheimer Care Facility?

Imagine a day where you are running against time and have to cook and pack lunchboxes for your kids, drop them off to school, and then report in office for a board meeting. After reaching the office you realize you have forgotten your laptop right on the table next to the door. Frustrating, right? Can you now imagine the kind of elderly care is required to your loved one suffering from Alzheimer’s?

It is difficult to gauge the gravity of a situation until you get into it and this is perfectly applicable in case of diseases. One wouldn’t know how thorough you need to be in taking care of someone who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. Having knowledge about the disease is surely one important thing but when it comes to Alzheimer care what takes precedence is, having the kindness and compassion towards the patients.

Looking for Alzheimer’s Care?

When you are looking for home health care services for your loved one it is essential to understand what they are going through and also the deterioration process. Alzheimer’s syndrome has stages and the medium stage symptoms include forgetfulness and memory loss. Patients may need vigilant assistance in the tasks they do. This may often include administering them with the right dose of the right medicines. Later stages may need helping them with regular daily personal chores like bathing or washing.

• Pay a Visit: Selecting the right professional home health care services would require some visits to see for yourself how the assistants take care of the elderly. Their daily availability, timings, traveling, behavior, their training, experience in dealing with Alzheimer’s patients; everything comes into account.
• Insurance for the Adult Care: Talk to the manager about insurance coverage or options in case of some mishap. Check the safety measures in the facility as severe sufferers lose judgment and might end up hurting themselves.
• Daily Schedule: Ask about the daily schedule they follow with the patients. For example, many elder care services have music programs, some group games, hobby rooms for reading, painting, making small items, etc. This way you might find something that the patient is interested in and can participate.
• Customized Services: Depending on the Alzheimer’s stage, ask for condition-based or customized services, be it administering medicines only once and taking care of bathing or just to be around with the patient spending time with them talking or take them around for walks or to the nearby garden, and so on.

Last but not the least tip to choose a good elderly care facility is the accessibility from your home or work place. You want to reach there on time to pick up or drop, rush to the venue in case of emergency, or simply for convenience.

Mathew Nessen is a social activist & social awareness enthusiast about societal changes. Spreading the word about different ways of elderly care for today's generation & making them happy is one of his keen interest areas.