Elder Care & Potential Healthcare Costs – Mobility Aids For Aging Parents & Seniors
Mobility aids are integral to helping our aging population stay mobile allowing them to age in place. Yet, they can unknowingly create safety issues with unintended consequences. Careful choices, quality and understanding the devices intended use is vital to preventing injuries. Here are some facts to keep in mind from the CDC:.
The assumption also holds that you will find time to continue: -nurturing your children -being a good partner -working in your career -maintaining your own personal time and space The fact is that the world is a much different place than when our parents cared for their parents. They probably lived closer together, the women did not work outside the home and doctors spent more time with their patients, and the options for eldercare were very limited at best.
Now families may be scattered across the country or continents, both partners have spent years creating families and careers and there are so many options for a functional life expectancy that it takes a geriatric professional to understand them. Even so, in many families guilt wins out, and we continue the status quo.
But wait…We are the first generation, ever in the entire history of the world, to face the difficulties of living in a time where we may spend more years caring for elderly parents than we spent caring for our children.
How do elder-caregivers cope in a world where less than 1% of doctors are trained in geriatric medicine? Where up to 140,000 deaths annually occur from Adverse Drug Reactions yet only 720 out of our 200,000 pharmacists have geriatric training? And the entire care giving system relies on poorly paid workers with only 40 hours of training for effective and compassionate care? Add to this the inherent determination of most parents to keep their adult children from knowing anything about their medical needs or financial status and it’s easy to see why continued attempts at intervention may seem like a waste of time. They’re not. Education, planning, and communication can help overcome much of our parents’ resistance to our help.
Most elder-caregivers know the drill: without orientation, training, or significant assistance, “you are expected to know how, when, and how much to intervene, how to manage medications, how to evaluate a nursing home, how to cope with Alzheimer’s Disease, and how to resolve a host of other new and life altering caregiving dilemmas.”
One of the hardest tasks many caregivers face comes at the beginning of the care giving cycle: knowing whether or not to intervene, how to go about it, and which responsibilities should you take over?.
Many products don’t perform according to the marketing materials and/or the intended use is narrow, thus virtually ineffective. This is one reason products are inappropriately chosen and how safety issues are created. Before a professional recommends a product they should be educated so they can help educate others especially the user.
Before you decide to intervene Take a step back and ask yourself these questions: Have your parents’ habits really changed? Did they manage their affairs the same way ten or twenty years ago? Is the difference simply that now you see the situation from an adult perspective rather than the way you viewed it as a child? If you’ve been truly objective and you still believe your parents are at risk and that you aren’t trying to change their long-established habits to meet your view of how they “should” live their lives, then trust your instincts and intervene.
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