Caregiver Tips: Tips for Easing Agitation in Your Elderly Loved One

Caregiver Tips: Everyone gets agitated from time to time.

However, many elderly people – especially those with dementia – may get agitated quite often. If you are providing care for your elderly loved one, there are some tips that can help to ease their agitation. If you and elderly care providers utilize the below-mentioned caregiver tips with your elderly loved one regularly, they could help to prevent some agitation, as well.

Home Health Care in Glenolden PA: Easing Agitation

Finding Triggers

When your elderly loved one is agitated, it is important that you or their elderly care providers find the reason for their discomfort. Your elderly loved one might have a physical need that isn’t being met. If they aren’t great at communicating, the agitation might be their way of showing that something is wrong. Some of the issues might be that your elderly loved one needs to go to the bathroom or they are hungry. Once you can find out the problem and solve that problem, hopefully, your elderly loved one’s agitation will subside.

Getting Rid of Environmental Distractions

The environment that your elderly loved one is in could be causing them to be agitated, too. Some of the things in your elderly loved one’s environment that may be causing agitation include:

• Clutter
• Noise
• Dirty dishes
• Too many people

These are all things you or elderly care providers should check on when your elderly loved one becomes agitated. If you notice that one of these issues is happening, you can solve the problem. Hopefully, that will help your elderly loved one feel better.

Sticking to Routines

Your elderly loved one may be getting agitated because they don’t have a routine. Many people do better when they know what to expect on any given day. Some of the things that you or an elderly care provider may want to include in your elderly loved one’s routines include:

• Brushing teeth
• Taking a bath
• Watching television
• Visiting with friends or family members
• Household chores
• Meals
• Sleeping

Hopefully, after creating routines each day, your elderly loved one won’t be as agitated in the first place.

Caregiver Tips: Conclusion

These are some of the best tips for easing agitation in your elderly loved one. Now that you know about these tips, you can not only help your elderly loved one with the agitation they are having now but reduce the agitation they may have later on, too. If you try these caregiver tips and your elderly loved one continues to be extremely agitated, scheduling an appointment with their doctor may be a good idea.

If you or an aging loved-one are considering hiring a Home Health Care in Glenolden, PA, please contact the friendly staff at Suma Home Care. (484) 206-4544

Sources

https://www.nia.nih.gov/

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Ibrahim & Mariama Suma-Keita

Owners at Suma Home Care

Ibrahim Suma-Keita Jr studied lived, studied and work in London, United Kingdom when he emigrated as a teenager from his country of birth Sierra Leone. Ibrahim had a illustrious career in Information Technology (IT). However, he emigrated to Philadelphia, where he settled and married to his wife who is a Registered Nurse, they have three children together.

Ibrahim recently completed a Professional Certificate in Management; He is currently pursuing a Masters in Business Administrations (MBA) at a prestigious university in the UK.

With their passion for helping others and a strong background in customer services and clinical care, Ibrahim and his wife started assisting individuals in their homes.

Since started and operating Suma Home Care in 2010 in the basement of their home, Suma Home Care has provided professionals who work endlessly in providing clients with the highest quality of care, while enabling clients to maintain dignity, comfort and safety in their homes.

Suma Home Care, serves four counties in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Chester, Montgomery and Philadelphia. Ibrahim is firmly connected to his local community and is always looking for ways to give back whenever the opportunity presents itself.

Ibrahim enjoys spending time with his wife and children, travelling and enjoys sports.

Mariama Suma-Keita BSN RN
Born in Sierra Leone west Africa, relocated to America in 1999 from a civil war and settled since in the U.S.A as a Naturalized citizen Graduated from National school of nursing with an associate , and completed BSN in Nursing from Immaculata University graduated with Honor roll Alpha Lambda sigma, After escaping the war served as a refugee nurse in Gambia and Guinea to other displaced refugees before coming to America.

In the states started in Homecare then then transition into hospital, worked in Jefferson hospital as a Registered nurse on Tele and general medsurg floor, also worked in Einstein hospital as an oncology transplant nurse , I realized that I enjoy working with patients so much and believe in quality and compassionate care one at a time dealing with an holistic approach in caring for patients and family in a familiar environment called home , I see the impact and progress when they’re home , it makes them feel relax and progress fast with recovering at home. As a nurse and entrepreneur I understand that dedication to meeting people and families needs is a priority, and able to foster relationships with family and patients that is professional and friendly to help them stay and settled home as a desire.

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