Helping your aging parents from a distance

Employment and educational opportunities often move adult children away from their aging parents. Although these decisions are difficult to make, they are important. While you can’t feel guilty about making a choice that is a good fit for your daily life and that suits your children and your spouse, it’s hard when the move puts distance between you and your parents.  The emotions around the decision can feel incredibly complex as your parents age and you worry about their health, wellness, and happiness.  

Just as your life and your kids’ lives change every day, so do your parents’ lives. Perhaps your parents have slowed down physically, or one of them has suffered a medical setback. Maybe you’ve lost a parent recently, and you’re grappling with how to support your remaining parent as they try to resume a routine without a longtime partner.

All of these developments can make you feel more uneasy about the physical distance between you and your aging parents. But it’s hard to pick up your life and move, just as it’s challenging to move seniors from a locale where they have comfortable connections.

Visiting Angels Barrington, Illinois, can help provide routine care and ease the worry that comes with an intergenerational long-distance arrangement. Let us manage the logistics. That way, you can focus on providing emotional care and support to your parents. Here’s how our caregivers can help.

Committed Caregivers and Quality Communication  

We’re committed to hiring caregivers that we would trust to take care of the seniors in our families. We are thorough in vetting the caregivers we hire, going through background checks, criminal history checks, and reference checks.  Our interview process is rigorous. We ensure that every caregiver we hire meets our high standard of care.

Compatibility is key to the success of every professional arrangement. That’s why we give families the chance to interview caregivers and select the professional caregiver that you think will be the best fit for the senior in your life.

We then keep the families in the loop, reporting back regularly so that you can maintain an awareness of the success of the arrangement and any additional services that may be needed.

How We Help  

Visiting Angels Barrington, Illinois provides an array of non-medical services. These services are customized for each client, and they change as each client’s needs change. Some clients simply need reliable rides to medical appointments, help with meal preparation, grocery shopping, laundry, light cleaning, and regular visits to keep their spirits up. This Companion Care service can be enhanced if the client has an unexpected hospital stay or encounters new limitations or challenges, like dementia, that can come with aging.

Whatever your loved one needs, professionals you can trust will monitor and report those developments to you regularly. That way, you can make decisions related to those changes, and we can update services as we go.

We do the heavy lifting when it comes to logistics. That way, you can manage the emotional aspects of care. These are less location-based and easier to manage remotely.

Social Care 

Our Social Care Program is a huge help to a family who is spread out across the country. It gives seniors the chance to work with a professional and learn the basics of using the internet, cell phone, and social media. This way, they can gain confidence and fluency online while working with a seasoned professional who has plenty of experience working with seniors. Our pro knows what is likely to confuse or frustrate seniors as they get comfortable building their social media presence. Plus, they will learn good online habits, including how to stay safe online and on social media.

A Remote Future

If you must live far from a beloved senior in your family, that’s nothing to feel badly about. As we’ve learned in the last year, remote life is simply a reality during the pandemic. Please don’t feel guilty about it; simply find an arrangement that makes you feel comfortable and in control. Visiting Angels Barrington, Illinois can help. Contact us online or call us at 224-512-4180.