It might feel as if there’s never a good time to talk with your senior about changing her living situation. But if any of these situations apply to your elderly family member’s current situation, it might be the right time to talk with her about making a change.
If Your Senior Needs Some Daily Help
Activities of daily living, or ADLs, are those activities related to helping your senior to be healthy and happy every day. These are activities such as bathing, grooming, and maintaining her home. Over time, these are activities that might be getting a lot more complicated for your senior to handle on her own. If your elderly family member needs a little bit of assistance with ADLs, a senior living community may be an idea choice for her.
If Your Senior Knows She’ll Need More Help Soon
But what if your elderly family member knows that she doesn’t need a lot of help now and will need more later? Supportive living situations can still meet her needs then, too. That type of living arrangement helps to ensure that your elderly family member has the help that she needs, when she needs it, which can be a huge weight off her mind and yours.
If Your Senior Feels Overwhelmed by Responsibilities
Maintaining her current living situation may be incredibly taxing for your senior. It typically starts to take more time and energy to age in place, even with help from you and other people, for your senior to stick with that choice. Choosing a different living situation offers your senior the chance to hand over those responsibilities to someone else and not have to think about them anymore.
If Your Senior Wants More Community
Loneliness is a huge problem for aging family members and it’s not always a problem that is easy to resolve. Living within a senior living community gives your elderly family member a chance to meet a variety of other people and to spend time engaging in a variety of activities. All of that can help her to avoid feeling lonely and alone, which can help her to avoid other issues, like developing depression.
Finding the right retirement community for your senior is key. The combination of amenities and services offered should be in line with what she needs now and anticipates needing in the future. If she only wants to move one more time, it helps if she’s in love with that new community.
If you or an aging loved-one are considering a move to an Senior Supportive Living in Edwardsville, IL or surrounding areas please contact the caring staff at Knollwood Retirement Community today. 618-394-0569
Offering seniors age 65 and older a wealth of amenities to retain as much independence as they are able, with support, in a home-like environment in our supportive living community.
