Your children and other family members need to work for them to provide your need the older you grow. Their medication services are a better alternative to you going to a health facility since they can provide you with their medical services at the comfort of your home. Look for home care for yourself in you notice these signs and symptoms.
These diseases lower the activity of the memory cells thus the patient becomes forgetful because of short memory. Determine if you also forget where they kept your belongings, especially the personal effects, after a short time. Look for home care and allow you to continue treatment for Alzheimer or Dementia because the treatment will help you to live longer. The staff of the home care you choose will organize your schedule and ensure that you do not miss appointments and social events that you want to attend.
If you have lost or gained weight at a fast rate understand that you have not been taking proper care of your health. If you have been skipping meals because of loss of appetite you will surely lose weight rapidly. Have you been exercising regularly? Dementia and cognitive denial that you are aging may cause you to isolate yourself from people most of the time and relieve the stress by eating or not eating out of stress. Extreme mood swings is also a sign of Alzheimer and depression which can lead to your current habit of secluding yourself. The people at the homecare will be your friends and companions because aside from the staff, there are people of your age who will be there for you because you share the same experiences. They will ensure that you have proper dieting and nutrition so that they don’t lose or gain too much weight.
You may be suffering from an aging health condition that is called Arthritis. Arthritis make it difficult for you to stand or walk without support when it gets severe. Do you fall a lot when you try to groom yourself or do you strain so much? They will provide you medication to take care of the chronic pain of Arthritis.
You may be forgetful or too weak for them to clean up the house and groom yourself. If you forget removing expired products from the refrigerator, often the smell from the fridge should convince you to get help from home care. Check the bathroom to find out if it is clean enough. You will have to deal with the nuisance of flies, cockroaches, mice and others especially the pests and rodents that bring diseases to humans.