Being outdoors is great for seniors, as long as they prepare for sun exposure properly. Home care assistance can help seniors get ready to go outside safely and enjoy the sun. But if seniors do get too much sun, home care assistance can be a big help to recover from the effects of the sun, too. Some of the best things that seniors can do to recover if they have sunburns, heat exhaustion, or other problems that are the result of spending too much time outdoors:

A Cool Bath Or Shower

Nothing feels better than a cool bath or shower after spending a lot of time in the sun. Seniors can benefit from a cool bath or shower if they’ve had too much sun. Seniors who prefer soaking in a cool bath should add some oats to the bath. Oats or oatmeal can be very soothing to sunburned or stressed-out dry skin. And it will help seniors feel better. Just make sure that the bath is cool not cold and that as the water warms up to room temperature it’s replaced with cool water. That will help seniors bring their temperature down.

Drink Cool Water Or Sports Drink

Cool water will help seniors replenish all the water they lost to sweat when they were outdoors. Seniors are chronically dehydrated, and being outdoors in the sun can make that dehydration worse. That’s why seniors should always drink plenty of cool water when the weather is warm. Drinking chilled sports drinks or water with electrolytes can also help seniors replenish and balance their fluids. A great way to get seniors to drink more water is to fill an infusion pitcher with water and in the infusion core place cut up cucumbers and some mint. The cucumber juice will infuse the water with a delicious fresh flavor and it will help seniors absorb the water more effectively.

Moisturize Sunburned Skin With Aloe

If seniors get a sunburn when they’re outside when they come in they should treat that sunburn with a nice soothing aloe lotion or gel. A home care assistance provider should put the gel or lotion in the fridge to make it cool before applying. Then your senior can put on the chilled aloe gel or lotion to help heal the sunburn and make them feel cooler. When the summer is warm seniors can benefit quite a bit from using aloe vera gel or lotion.

Use Cold Compresses

If seniors are very warm when they come inside cold compresses are a fast and easy way to make them more comfortable and lower their temperature. Adding chilled ice packs, washcloths with ice in them, or expensive luxury cooling packs to a senior’s wrists and behind their knees as well as behind their necks can help seniors regulate their temperature and be more comfortable in the heat.

If you or an aging loved one is considering home care assistance in Prosper, TX, please contact the caring staff at Clear Path Home Care today. Call 817-928-5788

Clear Path Home Care provides compassionate, high quality home care in Denton County, Montague County, Cooke County, Grayson County, Fannin County, Lamar County, Wise County, Collin County, Hunt County, Delta County, and Hopkins County in Texas.

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Clear Path Home Care offers a unique Total Care Management system to optimize each client’s happiness and wellbeing utilizing our carefully vetted Senior Advisory team. We provide coordination between families and all aspects of elder care needs, which may include Home Health, Hospice, Physicians, Hospitals, Skilled Nursing Facilities, or Assisted Living Facilities. Personal care consists of help with activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, grooming, eating, and transferring.

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