In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a renewed emphasis on preserving the rights of senior citizens, especially those that are residents in senior care facilities. This includes protection from abuse and neglect, but it goes much further than this, too. It includes access to healthcare, voting, and access to the desired food and drink, just to name a few things.
In California, we have an ombudsman program that is designed to help ensure the quality of care that is reserved for those residing in nursing homes. This program ensures some safeguards when it comes to safety and rights within the facility, but there’s a lot that the ombudsman program can’t do. Unfortunately, the pandemic left a lot of care facilities overburdened and understaffed.
Life isn’t over when someone needs senior care. You are still the same person that you were prior to care, with the same needs, goals, and desires. However, this can be hard to maintain if a care facility doesn’t have the proper amount of support in place. And when the pandemic hit, it became even harder.
Speaking up and advocating for your loved ones is important. Finding the right care service to help you in this mission will also be helpful. Alternative types of care, like in-home care, can help to relieve the burden of understaffed care homes and help ensure that the people that you love are getting the best care possible. This allows your loved ones to stay where they want to be while they receive the help that they need to thrive.
Your older loved ones deserve the best. They deserve the best care, and they deserve it in the way that they most desire. For some, a nursing home is a perfect choice. But in reality, this is an option that is used by far more people than necessary. Whether because it’s something that has always been the first choice for seniors when it comes to assistance, insurance issues, or because of limited options in some communities, nursing homes are overused, and the level of care that people received during the pandemic suffered as a result of this.
Knowing your options can help prevent someone from being put in a precarious situation like what we saw in 2020. Whether that’s in-home care (like what we offer here at Paradise In-Home Care), or something else, there are more care options out there than ever before.
If you’re looking to learn more about care and how you can help your family get the most out of this experience, we are happy to talk. Senior care can be a big, overwhelming topic, but it doesn’t need to be. Our team of friendly and helpful caregivers would be happy to talk more with you during a free consultation service. Finding the right care can go a long way toward helping those that you love maintain control and independence over their lives as they age. We’d be happy to talk more with you about how we can help you to achieve this.
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