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Checking In, Checking Up
How a Home Visit Can Reveal the Care Mom Really Needs
No matter how many phone calls you make to check on the well-being of an aging parent, it’s more often the eye-opening home visit that forces the realization that your loved one may not be doing quite as well as you had imagined or hoped.
Jane Hart, executive director for Hart-Felt Ministries, a faith-based volunteer organization in Jacksonville, Florida, which provides home-based assistance for frail elders, says, “I can’t recall ever getting a phone call from a family caregiver who asks for our help based on their recent phone calls to an aging loved one, but calls do come from family caregivers who have just been inside their loved one’s home and realize something needs to be done to keep the situation from becoming a crisis.”
For many caregivers, this realization comes from holiday visits, in long-distance caregiving situations, and on the daily or weekly visits when Mom or Dad lives locally.
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