Helping Your Aging Loved One Care for Their Yards During the Fall
Fall is our favorite season for Visiting Angels' elder care professionals. It's almost the ideal season with the changing colors of the leaves, just-right temps, and farmers' markets overflowing with fresh, nutritious goods.
Autumn presents difficulties but also. For elders needing elder care, yard upkeep is among the toughest challenges. From cleaning gutters to leaf raking, seniors—especially those with muscle and mobility problems—often struggle with seasonal chores.
Fall Yard Work Schedule
Whether hiring experts or working on your yard, you should be clear about precisely what must be done. Our senior care specialists asked home improvement pros to create a fall yard maintenance checklist.
- Examining roof
- Cut off the outside water supply.
- Look at door and window seals.
- Rake leftovers
- Fertilize grasses in the chilly season.
- Drain outdoor spigots.
- Store hoses.
- System of drain sprinklers
- Prune plants.
- Sort the gutter.
- Plant cool-season annuals, bulbs, roses, shrubs, and trees.
- Mulch will help to protect plants from freezing.
Assisting Elderly Care for Their Yard
Depending on your decision, helping a senior with yard maintenance can take a phone call or a weekend. You can do it at a family gathering or alone. If your loved one is up to it, you could even want to get them involved.
Here are three ways our senior care professionals advise handling yard maintenance.
Either with family or by yourself. Should your loved one lack the strength or mobility required to assist with yard maintenance, you or your family can do it independently? If you live nearby, set aside a weekend or two to work on significant tasks; if not, chip at the job week by week.
With the help of Your Loved One. It does not follow that your parent or grandparent cannot complete less demanding chores, such as trimming plants, just because they cannot clear the gutter. For elders, yard labor provides beneficial exercise that helps to preserve solid muscles and bones.
You are choosing a yard service. You may always call a professional yard service whether you live far away or are pushed for time. Your neighborhood should offer many expert choices for simple and fast yard maintenance. Look around and evaluate reviews for a reasonably priced, good service.
Contact Visting Angels of Benton
Get in touch now to find out how Visiting Angels of Benton can assist your loved one in managing their house and living peacefully at home, relieving them of stress and providing the required care.
