After some minor accidents, you may be wondering if your aging parent should still be driving. This may be a sign that driving safely is an issue due to problems with vision, slower reaction time or confusion. Before your parent’s driving gets significantly hazardous, it’s important to engage in a serious discussion about giving up driving. Before mentioning the idea, it’s useful to have good alternatives in mind, such as the senior errand assistance offered by A Better Care Option.
Your aging parents will probably resist giving up the independence that driving provides, but the good news is that A Better Care Option’s elderly transportation assistance makes it possible for them to continue to run errands, go to doctor’s appointments and spend time with friends and family—all without driving themselves. If your parent would prefer staying at home to read a book or do gardening instead of running errands, that’s also an option through A Better Care Option’s senior errand assistance.
Incidental Transportation
For your aging parent, driving to an appointment can lead to general confusion, or specific problems such as inability to negotiate traffic entering and exiting parking lots. Aging parents who are no longer sure of their driving skills may not know how to arrange for other transportation and may miss essential doctor’s appointments. They may not want to place a burden on their children by requesting a ride. It’s reassuring to know that A Better Care Option provides senior home care assistance with transportation. Our caregivers can arrange transportation and accompany your senior parent to appointments.
Schedule Planning & Assistance
Missing doctor’s appointments and problems following doctor’s orders can have a serious impact on an aging parent’s health. These difficulties may be indicators that an aging parent is dealing with memory loss or is in need of senior home care transportation services. We can assist. A Better Care Option in-home caregiver can help maintain your aging parent’s schedule and remind your parent of medical appointments as well as how to follow doctor’s orders.
Errand Services
Picking up prescriptions, doing grocery shopping, standing in line at the post office, returning a library book. Errands can become an extensive list of tasks that can be overwhelming to an aging parent, especially one with transportation challenges. Our caregivers can provide senior home care errand help–while your parent enjoys time reading a good book or gardening.
