When Is The Right Time to Move To A Senior Home?

A Decatur senior living residence may not be what your beloved parent hopes for when they grow old and needs to be taken care of. If you put them there, they might even feel resentful or mad, but there comes a time when you indeed have to make a choice between placing your loved one in a retirement home or continue to care for them in your own home putting them and yourselves and other loved ones at risk.

So, what are the things you need to consider in deciding whether or not you need to place someone in a home? 

When They Can’t Take Care of Themselves

If they are at a point when they can’t take care of themselves already, you can gauge this when they need daily assistance with bathing, eating and other activities of daily living. When even in the simplest things they need assistance, then perhaps it is time to consider bringing them to a Decatur senior living home where they can be taken care of by professional yet caring staff.

When You Can’t Take Care of Them

If you are working and maybe gone for the whole day and you have no one to look after your elderly relative, then taking them to a place where they will have companions 24/7 maybe the best solution. In these homes, they will have people they can talk to, the staff, other residents and visitors as well. You will be sure that they eat meals and take their medicine on time.

When They Pose A Danger To Themselves and To Others

Let’s admit it, sometimes there are certain illnesses that rob our loved ones of their memory, capacity to think rational thoughts that sometimes they do things that endanger themselves or others.  Forgetting things like locking the front door, that they are cooking and such things, might be a sign that they need to be placed in senior living residences where they can be protected even from themselves.

Placing our elderly loved ones in a Decatur senior living home is not an easy decision to make. There are a lot of consideration with regards to finances, the emotional part of leaving your parent for example in a home for both sides. You might feel guilty that you seem to be abandoning a loved one that has taken care of you for so long but leaving them alone in your house can be a greater disrespect most especially if you leave them alone for long periods of time or if they are missing meals and medicine just because you aren’t there to ensure that they are properly taken care of, then perhaps placing them in a home is the more decent thing to do.

In choosing a senior living arrangement for your beloved parents or grandparents make sure that you chose a home where you loved one will be well taken care of, with great facilities and staff to take care of your loved one, a chance to further themselves like ongoing education, allowing them to form a new hobby or pursue a passion, a way to keep healthy and all the necessary facilities that will let the senior feel like he is still a productive human being. One such place is the Coventry Place in Georgia. Visit their website here, for more information on what they can offer to your beloved senior.