One of February’s month-long events is Declutter For A Cause Month. This holiday is about clearing away unused items to donate items that still have some use to charities, non-profit organizations, and other groups that don’t have the funding they need to support the community. For many seniors, decluttering unused items can help them to age in place more safely. In-home care professionals can be a huge help in maintaining that newly decluttered space. Here are just a few of the ways that decluttering can benefit your senior.
Reducing Stress and Overwhelm
Clutter has a way of weighing on the brain, even if it doesn’t seem as if it does. When your elderly family member removes excess items from her home that she doesn’t really need or use, her brain is able to relax a little bit. This helps her to reduce stress and overwhelm, which can result in lowered anxiety levels and greater ability to do things like focus on her well-being.
Making Cleaning Easier
When there are fewer items in your senior’s home, it’s a lot easier to keep her home both clean and tidy. This is a task that might have been getting more difficult for your senior over time. If that’s the case, she might have been paring back what she did regularly in order to keep up. Another solution is to bring in in-home care providers in to help her manage these tasks.
Improving Mobility
Removing excess clutter has the added benefit of clearing some space for your senior to use as she needs to at this stage in her life. She may need more room for mobility devices like a cane or wheelchair, and clearing as much space as possible allows her to move more easily through her home. With the added support of in-home care professionals, your elderly family member also may find that she feels safer at home.
Improving Safety
Reducing fall risk is a huge goal for most family caregivers when it comes to keeping someone they love safe. When there are a lot of items cluttering up your elderly family member’s home, there are also a lot more risk factors for falling and other safety concerns. By removing obstacles, your senior’s home automatically becomes safer and it’s easier for everyone involved to keep her home as safe as possible.
Making Aging in Place Easier
If one of your elderly family member’s big goals for this stage of her life is to age in place for as long as possible, that’s going to be infinitely easier with a decluttered home. Removing items she doesn’t need keeps her safer, allows her to have the mobility she needs, and makes it easier for you and for in-home care professionals to offer her the assistance that she needs. All of that helps her to reach her goal of staying where she is for as long as she can.
Decluttering isn’t always an easy thing to do, of course. But the more your elderly family member is willing to part with, especially when she no longer uses those items, the more it helps her and her community as well.
If you or an aging loved one is considering in-home care in White Settlement, TX, please contact the caring staff at Clear Path Home Care today. Call (817) 631-7710.
Clear Path Home Care provides compassionate, high quality home care in Parker County, Tarrant County, Johnson County, Hood County, Somervell County, Erath County, Bosque County and Hamilton County in Texas.
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