Senior who independent from children is increasing.
Feeling the physical and mental health status of elderly parents living through environmental inspection visit at my parents' house, it is important for parents and children living apart.
Homeinstead specialized in global senior care company introduces care guide for parents living environment checking welcome Thanksgiving Day and the Day of the Elderly Senior.
1. Make sure refrigerator and freezer cupboard : If the fridge is empty, food past its expiration date, that mean the parents can not go to the shops and markets. And check too, May parents’s body is uncomfortable and annoyingly so prefer to fast food and convenience food.
2. Make sure the sink or the upper part of the furniture : Sink or dust build up on furniture that is evidence that parents are struggling about clean the house. This is simply to cause sanitary problems, as well as can lead to falls due to obstacles cluttered and should be examined with care.
3. Have a look at the lower part of the bed or sofa : If pile up old newspapers, books, magazines, etc. that shows that parents has weaken the ability to tidy things further indicates that they may be exposed to the risk of fire.
4. Confirm the mails : Sure that mailings to parents to pay various bills or other mail processing to make sure you often forgetful. Short-term memory loss can be the most common symptom of dementia.
5. Look at medicine the box : Make sure that parents take medicine as prescribed, and whether they take overdue. Misuse of drugs can lead to the worsening of the health of my parents.
6. Look at the parents' appearance : Dirty clothing, the signal may be parents, for reasons such as eyesight worse, disregarding personal hygiene.
7. Contact parents neighbors or parents nearest people : If Parents have time to stay home only getting longer, avoiding the time to talk to hang out with them, It is the evidence for they need your help.
The biggest complaints of elderly people living alone, loneliness and loss of function to the body in everyday life, large and small discomfort. Homeinstead Korea's Park Een Kung CEO said “When we take a look once a long time visit parents, if they are not as equal as the old days about chores such as cleaning, laundry and meals, and if they are bad health care, this is the time they need family or external personnel trained help.”
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I think that you did more work that you had to. For this assignment, I stated that you only needed to do a summary (not paraphrase/complete translation. However, doing more than required is not a bad thing :-) I obviously didn't make this clear because I'm adding this same message to many of the postings.
ReplyDeleteThis is an interesting article. I think that it is important. Maybe more so for your parents checking on your grandparents than for you right now. I certainly note these things when checking my own parents, though they are still quite young.
"May parents’s body is uncomfortable and annoyingly" -> I don't understand what this means. Can you explain?
"Sure that" -> "Make sure that"
"When we take a look once a long time visit parents" -> Could you restate this. I don't think it's easy to do in a single sentence. Maybe "If you notice that your parents are significantly different since your last visit..."
Thank you for your comments.
Delete"May parents’s body is uncomfortable and annoyingly" → I mean that they may be preferable, because the body is uncomfortable and annoyingly.
"When we take a look once a long time visit parents" → "If you notice that your parents are significantly different since your last visit about chores such as cleaning, laundry and meals, and if they are bad health care,~" Is this fine?