How would you want to spend your retirement years? How do you imagine your senior life to be? Probably, you would want to spend your days somewhere far from the city or near the mountains where you can feel fresh and cool air daily. Some people would want to spend their days with their family and their grandchildren. We all have our different ideas when it comes to aging and retirement.

How would you want to spend your retirement years? How do you imagine your senior life to be? Probably, you would want to spend your days somewhere far from the city or near the mountains where you can feel fresh and cool air daily. Some people would want to spend their days with their family and their grandchildren. We all have our different ideas when it comes to aging and retirement.

Human as we are, we are all similar when it comes to the need for companionship. We long to have someone who can rely on and someone who can be with us as we grow old. This need for companionship can be found from our own family members or having a personal caregiver from our Residential Care Center in Ware Shoals Manor SC, Harmony Residential Care Center.

Our companionship services do not limit to giving the patient the medical care they need but we go beyond that. We ensure comfort and we establish a friendship with our patients.

How do we make companionship fun?

The caregiver and patient relationship are not purely platonic. As caregivers, we create a daily routine for our patient. Apart from ensuring that they receive proper personal grooming and eat healthy meals, we also try to make each day exciting for them by helping them with their hobbies.

It would be great if we ask our patients about their favorite past time activities. Perhaps, they would occasionally want a stroll in the nearby park or they love to do gardening. You can also arrange a get together with the patient’s friends on an afternoon high tea where they can talk and spend time together.

How should we approach the patient?

What makes our Residential Care Center in Ware Shoals Manor SC dependable is that we treat our patient like our own family. We do not just treat them as a patient who needs our assistance.

We make sure to ask them about their day, make small conversations about their favorites or the stories they would like to share. We get to know them on a personal level. In this manner, we will be able to understand them as well. It helps us adjust to their personalities as well so that we will be more effective in rendering service to them.

Moreover, it would also be good that we treat them kindly no matter how they treat us. There are some patients who can be a handful or some who throw tantrums. When we are faced with this kind of situation, the best that we can do is to be patient and understand them. We keep our cool and then we talk to them. Ask them what the problem is and find a good solution to the dilemma without being harsh to the patient.

Caregiving and companionship is a noble profession. Having mastered the skills in conducting medical assistance or personal care to patients is not enough, you have to be compassionate when it comes to your treatment to the patient to make caregiving more effective.

If you are looking for a caregiver and a companion this Father’s day, contact us at www.harmonyres.com or call us at 864-456-7127.