National Shut-In Visitation Day is designed to get people to visit relatives and family friends who cannot leave their homes. When your parent cannot leave the home due to health issues or lack of transportation, it’s up to you to ensure your mom doesn’t experience isolation and loneliness.
What do you do about your mom’s situation when you aren’t close by? Have you looked at the benefits virtual caregiving services offer?
Your Mom Has Frequent Check-Ins
Virtual caregivers call your mom via the phone or a video call on a tablet or phone. You can supply your mom with a device she owns, or you can arrange one from the virtual caregiving agency.
Your mom gets a call from her virtual caregiver. She has someone to talk to, and her caregiver can assess how she’s doing and alert you or others on the list if she needs someone to visit or deliver household supplies or medications.
Reminders Help Your Mom With Medications
When your mom gets virtual caregiving services, she has a caregiver who can remind her when it’s time to take her daily medications. Her caregiver can watch her take the pills during a video call. If she needs a refill, you’ll know and can arrange a refill to be delivered, or take your mom to the pharmacy or her doctor to pick it up.
Fall Detection Is Possible
The virtual caregiving agency can arrange sensors that track your mom’s movements. If she gets out of bed, you’ll know the time. You’ll also get a sense of when she goes to the kitchen for a snack, meal, or drink.
If your mom falls, the sensors alert her care team and she gets a call. What if she doesn’t respond? Emergency services are notified and check on her. If she responds and needs help, help is dispatched. You’ll get a call that she fell and that you might want to stop by and see her if she’s okay.
A Trusted Circle Is Established
With virtual caregiving, the team sets up a Trusted Circle. These are the family members and friends who live close by and can quickly get to your mom’s home. They’ll get the first call if your mom needs something, and it’s not a medical emergency.
When it is a medical emergency, paramedics would get the first call. Others in the Trusted Circle would be called after the paramedics.
You Have Peace of Mind
Virtual caregiving services give you peace of mind. You know that there are always eyes on your mom through the sensors, and that she’s never alone. She has others helping out without being in her way or intruding on her privacy.
What do you do now? Arrange virtual caregiving services by calling or filling out an online form. An expert will talk about your mom’s home life and work with you to decide on the best schedule for calls.
Amelia Home Care provides traditional in-home care services, along with virtual caregiving and remote patient monitoring. Our service area includes Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island, and Westchester County. Call today at (929) 333-3955.
We proudly provide non-medical home care services to individuals with disabilities, injuries, difficulties with mobility, or illnesses. Our team is composed of highly trained and competent staff members who are dedicated and experts in delivering home care services in the comfort of our client’s home.
Through our personalized care plan, we can give you the needed care services that are all intended to cater to your unique personal and health needs. With us, we ensure around-the-clock services and supervision to help you achieve optimum health and wellness.
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