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A companion can offer friendly reminders and manage tasks related to housekeeping chores as well
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Community Companions housekeeping services. The
daily household chores which comprise such an essential part of
everyday life can be a source of difficulty and frustration in one’s
latter years. As we age and our memory, vision, hearing and motor
skills dull, the tasks that were once simple or routine can become a
heavy burden. Furthermore, our once neat and tidy household
environment, when in disrepair, can become a source of many unforeseen
health and safety hazards. The assistance of a companion in the daily
routine of keeping up on light housekeeping tasks can prove to be a
rewarding investment in your loved ones quality of life.
Companions can clean bathrooms and kitchens, wash windows and mirrors, prepare meals
and clean dishes, vacuum, dust (especially in places less accessible to
the elderly, such as high shelves and mantels), retrieve mail and
newspapers, keep up on yard work and any other everyday household
task.
Community Companions’ in-home care professionals can offer much
more than what you can expect from the average maid or
housekeeping service. Such services may do a fine job of cleaning
a home, but they often do not consider the particular needs of older
clients. Housekeeping services will not likely look for the
potential safety hazards that abound in the home. Nor will such
services likely be concerned with the inventory of commonly used items,
which is an issue for older citizens whose memory is not what it was in
their youth.
Mitigating common household dangers. Companions
can make the home an overall safer environment by mitigating common
household dangers. A caring professional companion will go beyond
the daily tasks associated with keeping a neat and tidy home to
initiate preventative measures to ensure the safety of your loved one
and his/her home. Keeping up on the periodic maintenance requirements
of smoke and carbon monoxide detectors by replacing batteries and their
checking functionality and replacing burnt out light bulbs and
household fuses will go a long way to mitigating the risk of serious
injuries from fire or affixations. These preventative measures may go
neglected by an elderly couple, a lone senior homeowner or older
apartment tenant due to the need to use a stepladder or simply due to a
lapse in memory. In the winter months a companion can clear
walkways and driveways of ice and snow to avoid falling hazards.
Companions can also install wheel chair ramps on the exterior stairs of
a house, enabling previously home-bound seniors to enjoy the freedom of
mobility.
Companions can also approach building supers
or contact maintenance professionals to perform furnace and water
heater inspections or contract repair work on broken appliances. This
can reduce the risk of your loved one being victimized by scammers as
the elderly are often the targets of fraud.
A companion can offer friendly reminders and manage tasks related to housekeeping chores as well. Companions
offer friendly reminders concerning items to add to one’s shopping
list. They can keep an inventory of the cleaning, cooking and personal hygiene items and serve as a memory aid for a senior who is composing his/her shopping list. Companions then can either drive the senior around town to run such errands as grocery shopping or they can take the list and complete the shopping for the senior.
Companions don’t just simply clean; they also care about the overall
welfare and lifestyle of their clients. A companion develops a
relationship with a client taking an interest in his or her daily
life. This trust-centered rational goes beyond the expectation of
excellence in the quality of work (housekeeping or otherwise) to truly
be a friend and companion.
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