THE ELDERLY
Distraught over loss of communication with an elderly loved one?
The decline in your elderly loved one's health is not just physical but mentally as well.
Feeling disconnected from your elderly loved one?
You are having trouble relating to your elderly loved one. And you feel that he/she is disconnected from your life. And doesn't understand how your children - their grandchildren - are doing, or for that matter, how you are doing with your own life.
Disturbed about not being able to visit your elderly loved one as regularly as you want?
You were not expecting this deterioration in your elderly loved one's health. - Ever since your mother/father fell and broke her/his hip, she/he has been unsteady.
Deciding to move your father/mother into a long-term care facility was not on your agenda and making time to visit him/her is difficult with your hectic schedule: organising the children's activities and your own work around the visits is becoming overwhelming.
Learn how to reconnect with your elderly loved one!
One way of connecting with your elderly loved one when he/she has lost the ability to communicate through traditional communication means, such as speaking and holding a comprehensible conversation, is through touch. The book Finding The Bloom of The Cactus Generation discusses this in detail.
Finding someone to work with your elderly loved one in a gentle, touch technique/manner can: 1) help alleviate your concerns about visiting him/her every day/week/month;
2) calm and reassure your elderly loved one that he/she has not been 'forgot' or left alone, and
3) allow you to establish and strengthen connection with him/her.
A book which can help you understand your experience with your elderly loved one's decline in health is Finding the Bloom of The Cactus Generation my Maggie Walters. Here is a link to her website, explaining more about her book and how you can obtain a copy.
Do you have an elderly loved one for whom you cannot care and is in a long-term living facility or assisted living or a nursing home?
As discussed by author Maggie Walters in her book Finding The bloom of the Cactus Generation, with the strains of taking care of your family - picking the children up from school taking them to after-school events as well as working part-time or full-time not to mention keeping up with the work in your home, going to visit your elderly loved one, who might not remember exactly who you are due to the ageing process and possibly even Alzhiemer's Disease or dementia, is difficult to fit into your busy schedule. Questions such as Am I doing the right thing -- living him/her in a long-term residential care facility? Why doesn't he/she recognise me or the children? What casn I do to help him/her? start cropping up in your thoughts.
WHILE YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO VISIT YOUR ELDERLY LOVED ONE ON A CONSISTENT BASIS, YOU CAN PROVIDE HIM OR HER SOME CONSISTENCY.
By using the services offered through Your Integral Health, you can provide a consistent, reassuring and comforting support to your elderly loved one. It will ease your mind, knowing that someone you trust, who is trained, is visiting and providing support to your elderly loved one.