My last two posts have been a little negative and I feel bad about that, because things are usually pretty good. Having dad in our home has really not changed our daily routines to much...besides the fact that Eli now stays home with dad. When we go out now, if dad is not coming with us, we just have to make sure someone is here with dad. And if dad is coming with us, we just have to be sure to bring a bottle of water for him since he has no saliva glands due to having cancer removed from the roof of his mouth.
Shortly after dad moved in with us, we found Aspen Senior Care. It is an in-home health service that has nurses or personal assistants that come to peoples homes to help with various in-home health needs. We don't really need in-home health care services for dad right now, but wanted to find out what services were available before we needed them. While talking with Susan, from Aspen, about the services they offer she mentioned that in June they would be opening Aspen Senior Center, a Senior Day Center. They offer respite care for family caregivers. The daily activities are very similar to the activities dad participated in while living at Jamestown.
We drop dad off about once a week to give him an opportunity to have to social interaction and activities, and to give Eli a break to run errands and such. It's kind of nice, because they have a "drop in" option. This way we aren't committing to attendance and then dad ends up sleeping in and not going. Since dad was up and about pretty early today, we decided it would be a good day to go to Aspen. Here's a couple of pictures of dad with the birdhouse he painted as craft project.
Shortly after dad moved in with us, we found Aspen Senior Care. It is an in-home health service that has nurses or personal assistants that come to peoples homes to help with various in-home health needs. We don't really need in-home health care services for dad right now, but wanted to find out what services were available before we needed them. While talking with Susan, from Aspen, about the services they offer she mentioned that in June they would be opening Aspen Senior Center, a Senior Day Center. They offer respite care for family caregivers. The daily activities are very similar to the activities dad participated in while living at Jamestown.
We drop dad off about once a week to give him an opportunity to have to social interaction and activities, and to give Eli a break to run errands and such. It's kind of nice, because they have a "drop in" option. This way we aren't committing to attendance and then dad ends up sleeping in and not going. Since dad was up and about pretty early today, we decided it would be a good day to go to Aspen. Here's a couple of pictures of dad with the birdhouse he painted as craft project.
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