Joe need help to clarify doubt about: : What are simple tasks that elderly people will ask for help?
I’m looking for things that elderly people would have to call their grandchildren or a neighbor for?
Im looking for specific task not general. Some things I came up with are….
Replace light bulbs
Household work
Vacuum
Assistance going up or down stairs
Pick items up from stores
Pick up prescriptions from a pharmacy
Shovel your walkway/driveway
Clean snow off cars
Open jars or tins
Walk the dog
Take out the garbage
Please add to this list… Thank you
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Answer by Lynnmarie
Lifting/moving heavy objects
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help them get to the bathroom (my mom used to stand on top of the caregivers feet).
some have cataracts and would appreciate your going grocery shopping for them maybe once a month.
And in the same vein they would need a relative to pay their bills for them (to write the checks for the amount required, except for the signature), get them in the right envelopes, put the stamps on and get them into the mail).
Clean the kitty litter.
Listen to them while they talk (most have only few to none visitors).
Help them make a call to a relative or drive them to see their long-lost family member.
Take a picture of them for family or for posterity (their family tree).
Change the batteries in the ceiling fire alarm.
Fix a broken blind or fix the curtains or draperies (sometimes a wheelchair will get caught and pull the whole curtain down).
Get them to a notary, to the attorney’s office so they can sign a will, a living will, a power of attorney (for their health or finances).
Take them to a doctor appointment.
They might call their grandchildren for a mess they made (pulled a pot of soup onto the floor).
They might ask someone to do the laundry
They might ask for someone to make a meal they can refrigerate and eat for several days.
They might ask someone to take them to the store to help them buy a new tv.
They might ask someone to help them get a cellphone or a lifeline.
They might ask for help in making a call to get information (to get past the menu because they can’t hear well).
They might need picked up from the hospital (after a stay there).
They might have dementia or alzheimers and don’t know what to do next, so a person would need to set up a caregiver or find them a place to live (like a facility, an assisted living or whatever they need).
They might need a driver to take them to go see different facilities to see where best they could live.
They might need you to take them to the bank (and walk with them), even intercede for them with the bank manager.
Fix a toiled that overflowed.
Take their car to get maintenance done on it and wait for it.
One woman asked me to program her cellphone so she could easily dial her daughter.
One woman asked me to put cooking times next to her microwave in large print so she could read it.
These are some of the things I was asked to do, and did..
I’ve been a senior for a number of years now and the only thing I ask for help on is my tax preparation. The frail elderly might need some of those services but most seniors still living at home can do most of them for him or herself. But for those that need the help the most, there is often no one who volunteers to do it.
My experience in working with the elderly in the distant past, and now living among
them now, I can tell you the list is different for every person who is aged. They might
need help with bathing, and shampooing their hair or setting it. The task of tying shoes
or putting on socks and shoes can be an impossibility unless one can bend over and
reach them. Cooking a meal, or washing dishes, is difficult if one cannot stand for long.
Doing any type of yard work becomes an impossible job, when one can’t walk, or push
a lawn mower, or use a rake. Going back to bathing, it’s also a task for some to dress
themselves for the day, and for the night. Buttons and zippers are for the younger set.
Blending a meal in a blender, is something someone needs when they’ve lost all of
their teeth and their false teeth are broken. So they have no teeth to chew with. Shopping
for groceries has to be left to someone else, in addition to errand running to pay bills.
Sometimes a company can take bill money due, out of a checking account, if they have
the approval of the customer. In this case, too elderly to pay in person, or mail it in.
I hope these have helped you with your list today.
Maintaining the furnace.Setting up a roof swamp cooler. Tilling the garden.Help with computer problems when stuck.Setting up new electronics . HOPE THIS HELPS.
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transportation to medical appointments, to the senior center, to visit with friends & shopping
Sometimes just going out for a ride. My late mother enjoyed just taking a ride – no place in particular but just getting out.
If the kids need money, I hire them to do yard work that I can no longer do. They like the money and I need the help.