Assisted Living – Solution for Your Senior Care Requirements

Care and companionship are the two most important things that seniors desire in their golden age. However, many seniors wish to remain independent and live on their own. However, aging and declining health can sometimes restrict them from leaving their home and meet friends or family. It can lead to isolation, which is not good for their physical and mental health. 

Assisted living community is the best solution for seniors who want to live on their own and do not require constant care, just the occasional help. Here are the details that explain what makes assisted living the best solutions for your senior care requirements. 

• Proper care – With this arrangement, your senior will get proper care from a trained caregiver. They will assist your elder with the activities of daily living. In addition, the community can develop an individualized service plan that suits your senior care needs the best. While developing this plan, they will keep your senior’s health, mobility, any medical condition etc., in mind.

• Independence – Elders who wish to remain as independent as possible can benefit a lot from assisted living, as they will still be living on their own. Yet, they will get proper care and assistance from caregivers when needed. Assisted living can ease your worried about your elderly family member’s care and health while the elder will also be happy with the independence they can enjoy in this arrangement.

To find good assisted living arrangements, you should rely on noted organizations like Always Best Care. 

Always Best Care offers senior care services to match all your needs and budget. To know more about our assisted living services in Vancouver, call us at (778) 945-3010.

Steps to boot senior health through Companionship Services

 Isolation and depression are growing concerns among seniors. Due to less mobility and engagement in the community, they often lose touch with close friends and relatives. And if they do not drive anymore or have difficulty in getting around, they are also less likely to be going out for events or other activities. This increased loneliness often results in heart diseases, accidents, and even suicides. Companionship services offer seniors the much-needed connections and also give you peace of mind knowing that a caregiver is there to care for your loved one. Some of the key benefits of regular companionship for a senior include:

• Decreased Isolation

• Increased mental stimulation

• Friendly conversation

• Increased physical activities

• Improved peace of mind

To learn more about how companionship services can help your senior enhance their physical and mental wellbeing, get in touch with Always Best Care today. We are a leading senior care provider in North Vancouver and have well-trained caregivers to provide seniors the right level of support and care. Call us at (778)945-3010 or mail hhamidi@abc-seniors.com to receive a FREE consultation. We would be glad to assist you.

Why Men Tend To Cry More in Their Senior Years

In their youth and middle age, men are taught by society not to cry. They are made to feel that it indicates a weak character, and someone who cannot take care of their family. While this is all debatable, senior men have reported crying more often than when they were younger. And there are a number of reasons to back up the reasoning behind why.

• When men get to be 60 and older, they have experienced a big of emotional pain in their lifetime. It could be the loss of a spouse, the loss of a parent, maybe even the loss of a child. When senior men dwell on these past pains, they’re more likely to cry.
  
  
• Senior men no longer feel as though they have to play the “macho man” like they did when they were younger. Culturally, senior men no longer feel the need to be tough and so they let that wall down that has kept them from crying in the past.
  
  
• As people age, depression can settle in based on the fact that the individual is getting closer to the end of their life. Mentally, men can go through these shifts and even develop a mental illness, anxiety, or simply depression which causes them to shed more tears.
  
  
• Senior men produce less testosterone than their younger counterparts. So, if a situation arises that might have made them angry in the past, it might just move them to tears now, instead.
  
  
• Seniors are more likely to be taking medications than any other age group. Senior men may be crying more often and readily due to medications causing depressive symptoms, as well as due to the existence of a chronic disease.
  
  
• Seniors are often faced with loneliness and isolation. These feelings of sadness can encourage tears.

Researchers are discovering that crying is, in effect, a form of therapy, and there can be “healthy” crying that eliminates stress and the built up of tension. However, continual or regular bouts of crying need the attention of a health care professional.

Always Best Care has been providing in-home senior care and assisted living referrals to seniors in Canada and the United States for the past 20 years. If you live in the Vancouver area and would like information about in-home care in West Vancouver, or referrals for assisted living in Burnaby, call the Always Best Care Vancouver location at 778-945-3010 today to set up a free care consultation.

Exercise Could be the Fountain of Youth

When we’re young, it’s easy to run, skip, and hop around. We play games with friends, tag, hide and seek, jumping on one foot from one blue square to the next in the mall, any reason at all to move, children will find it. Unfortunately, as we get older, that willingness to move our bodies isn’t as strong. The main reason being, of course, is just that it’s more difficult for us to move. Arthritis may have set in, or some other chronic illness, or just good old fashioned fatigue. But, moving is just as important as we get older as when we were children. Muscles need to be worked, the mind needs to be stimulated, and bones need to be strengthened to continue good health.

Although there is no real fountain of youth, the closest we get to it may just be exercise. Seniors that exercise enjoy greater mobility, greater overall happiness, higher levels of social contact, and more meaning in their lives than seniors who don’t get up and get moving. Even if you’re in a wheelchair, there are things you can do to strengthen your upper body, as many city parks have stations specially made for people in wheelchairs.

Of course, most seniors are not out to become fitness champions, but by exercising every day, whether it’s a walk around the pond, a long walk through the parking lot to the grocery store, or lifting appropriate weights, seniors can maintain good health and the ability to do the everyday tasks that they’ve become accustomed to. Seniors can locate classes at community centers or the local YMCA to help them strengthen their muscles, maintain their balance, and fend off falls, diseases and injuries.

Since 1996, Always Best Care has been providing seniors with quality in-home care services and assisted living community referrals. If you live in the North or West Vancouver area, and are interested in finding out more about in-home care in West Vancouver, or about referrals for senior living in the North Shore, you can call the Always Best Care Vancouver location at 778-945-3010 or email them at hhamidi@abc-seniors.com to set up a free consultation.