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Good, high quality and caring residence look after seniors just isn’t solely useful for the individual receiving it, however it additionally offers their members of the family peace of thoughts.
As we age, many people discover we could not have the ability to do every part we as soon as may however we need to keep in our houses and proceed to benefit from the high quality of life afforded us by the acquainted environment we now have grown to like.
Consolation Keepers acknowledges this and is there to supply the very best degree of interactive seniors’ residence care.
The group, with places of work throughout the nation, has a Kelowna workplace that serves each the Okanagan and the Shuswap.
Operated by Nadina Hadzi-Wiens, a veteran nurse with greater than 23 years of expertise, Consolation Keepers offers a variety of care providers for seniors, that assist their psychological, bodily, dietary and sensible wants.
Thoughts
Creativity just isn’t in brief provide on the subject of cognitive assist. Consolation Keepers care aides work together with their purchasers, speaking, instructing, taking part in board video games and serving to with a senior’s interest and offering social look after these with dementia and Alzheimer’s.
In response to Hadzi-Wiens, serving to purchasers proceed to do what they love is vital in proving for his or her well-being in later years.
Physique
As we age muscle tone, flexibility, steadiness and vary of movement are all invaluable however can deteriorate. Consolation Keepers workers assist their purchasers discover a protected degree of train that works greatest for his or her well being. Taking purchasers for walks, serving to them train and making it enjoyable on the similar time helps each the consumer’s bodily and psychological acuities. Care aides additionally assist with private hygiene, bathing and quite a few different private care duties, in addition to taking them to a physician’s appointment and ensuring they keep on treatment regimes.
Vitamin
Consolation Keepers can put together, or assist the senior put together, wholesome dietary meals that not solely hold them nourished but additionally helps hold their minds lively, all with a watchful and well-trained eye on the hazards present in a kitchen.
Care aides can even assist with grocery purchasing and prescription pick-ups.
Security
We are able to all discover methods to make our houses safer. Consolation Keepers care aides will assist level out potential fall hazards, can suggest security gear, transfer home equipment and instruments to easier-to-reach locations and assist with cleansing to verify their purchasers keep away from the pitfalls many face residing on their very own and getting older.
Consolation Keepers presents private emergency response techniques, fall detectors and different gadgets to assist hold purchasers protected.
“For me, it’s all a few continuity of care,” says Hadzi-Wiens. “We need to elevate the human spirit. It actually issues.”
As an skilled nurse for a few years, she noticed firsthand that individuals want a purpose to stay and offering help for individuals who proceed residing in their very own houses in later life may give many seniors that purpose.
Whether or not it’s a quiet time speaking, taking part in a board sport, going for a stroll or out to an occasion, serving to seniors stay on the tempo and luxury degree they want is necessary to Hadzi-Wiens.
“We don’t speak about purchasers, we contain them,” she says.
And it isn’t simply the purchasers who profit from Consolation Keeper’s excessive degree of care.
The Kelowna workplace has a singular on-line household portal the place details about every go to is posted so family members with entry can see how their member of the family is doing. With one central repository for normal info updates, all members of the family with entry can get the identical info on the similar time regardless of how distant they stay, conserving everybody on the identical web page and avoiding the danger of bewilderment one thing or the necessity to hunt down the caregiver for the newest info.
Hadzi-Wiens stated it’s all the time good to work not solely with the purchasers themselves but additionally with members of the family to supply the very best care for his or her family members.
She stated a typical go to lasts three to 4 hours and might embody getting purchasers prepared for appointments earlier than taking them there.
Consolation Keepers care aides are all licenced, educated and skilled, their automobiles are totally insured to move purchasers and it operates from Osoyoos to Salmon Arm and offers respite providers as properly.
To get began, go to Consolation Keepers at www.comfortkeepers.com or name its Kelowna workplace (1789 Harvey Avenue, Suite 209) at 778 214-2464.
You are able to do a fast self-assessment to start to grasp your, or the one you love’s, wants and might organize an in-home evaluation to find out the perfect ways in which Consolation Keepers may help.
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