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Choosing senior home care services for loved ones is often a tricky process – everyone wants to rest assured that their elderly family members are well cared for and safe. When an older family member is less capable of taking care of themselves, it often falls to the younger generation to decide what’s best. But in today’s society, most members of this generation have their own children and jobs, which can restrict the amount of time to personally care for their aging parents.
A unique new option of care for seniors has emerged in the United States that provides a varying amount of care catered to each individual’s needs. Originating in Pennsylvania, Seniors Helping Seniors(R) in home services opened its doors in Greater Cincinnati in 2013 and has been providing care for seniors through a community that fully understands what aging individuals truly need. By providing seniors with help in their homes provided by a younger senior, the organization has created a program that is mutually beneficial for both sides.
“We talk to each family personally to assess their situation and what will be most helpful for them,” says Christian Adams, Seniors Helping Seniors(R) Warren Clermont “Often, seniors won’t admit they need help, but they tend to be much more receptive when the caregiver is closer to their own age.”
Chores And More
Senior caregivers provide services like light housekeeping, yard work, laundry, meal preparation, and sometimes simply companion care. Care providers treat clients with dignity, and often, a peer-level relationship will arise that helps foster trust between the two.
“Adult children today are a mobile culture, and often don’t live near their parents,” says Adams. “Even if they do, they have a family and jobs, so they can’t do it all.
Often, what we see is that the care providers are able to grow close to the family as a whole, and become an extension of the family.”
The program provides vibrant seniors with a new community and a service to provide in their retirement. It’s this mutually beneficial relationship that makes Seniors Helping Seniors(R) services such a unique program.
“We help balance someone’s desire to give back to their community without going back to work full-time,” says Andrew Spatt, owner of Seniors Helping Seniors(R) Butler County. “There’s no agenda, no one’s trying to prove themselves – everyone providing care is doing so because they want to be, and that allows for a dependable staff that is trustworthy.”
Spatt and Adams also strive to let providers do what they do best – care compassionately while still providing them with full and ongoing support.
Communication Is Key
Family members are updated regularly on what is happening in their loved one’s life and are given every assurance of trustworthy providers. Spatt says it’s not difficult to populate a staff of caregivers with individuals who are passionate and caring towards those they’re working to aid.
All of Seniors Helping Seniors(R) services’ care providers are carefully screened employees of the company. “The care providers are seasoned in life, and they’ve all cared for someone else at one point or another, be it children or other family,” says Spatt. “There’s an emotional connection here that goes beyond the physical care.”
It’s not unusual for caregivers to drive their clients to doctor appointments, or anywhere else they need to go, and stay through the entire process. When a senior receiving aid needs a hand to hold, the caregiver is there to provide comfort and companionship.
“Part of the care our providers give is to provide comfort while knowing how to diffuse stress and anxiety,” says Adams.
Spatt adds that every relationship and assignment is tailor-made based on their assessments of what each care receiver needs – there’s no cookie-cutter approach. Spatt and Adams meticulously match seniors so they’ll successfully bond and create a relationship outside of providing care.
“We do what family members would do for their moms and dads if they could be there,” says Adams. This is a mentality stemming from the fact that both Adams and Spatt were inspired to open their Seniors Helping Seniors(R) branches after caring for their own aging parents.
Don’t Just Take Our Word For It…
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