New Year, New Goals—Helping Your Parent Embrace Healthy Changes

New Year’s resolutions…for some they offer the opportunity for regrowth, while for others, they conjure feelings of failed expectations, especially when it comes to looking at holiday senior care. Regardless of your mindset in terms of resolutions, the New Year still provides a window for introspection, as well as the mission to reset the body and mind after a season of holiday indulgence.

For your family, the New Year also provides the opportunity to help your senior parent embrace his or her wellness goals, along with your help. At BlueSea Care, we believe that personal wellness can truly be a family affair, which is why we’ve compiled our list of best suggestions for incorporating your parent’s health into everyday routines that support his or her goals.

How Can I Help My Senior Parent Stay Healthy?

First and foremost, you approach all senior care with respect and compassion. If your aging parent perceives your words or actions to be condescending, you only drive him or her further away. Take your cues from your parent first. Does he or she like walking, but just not alone? Perhaps you can fix that by offering your company or a qualified companion. Are meals becoming unhealthy convenience foods? Maybe you can come up with a meal delivery plan.

New services even offer ready-to-cook meals delivered with pre-measured ingredients that will allow your parent to cook healthier meals independently with less effort. Examine your parent’s daily routines and consider how they can be adjusted toward a healthier lifestyle without demonstrating too much perceived disruption as a part of the holiday senior care and beyond.

Beyond small, subtle solutions, you can also incorporate new technologies to help motivate your parent. Activity trackers allow you to see daily fitness progress, while creating small yet achievable goals. When your parent sees tangible accomplishments, this results in increased motivation to best personal goals. You can even set up competitions, but regardless of the approach, you want to make wellness seems like a total family goal. Talk about your own goals without projecting onto your parent, and even include your children when framing a positive New Year’s outlook on personal health.

The BlueSea Care team encourages you to take the New Year as an opportunity for crafting family-oriented wellness goals. We believe that subtle, careful encouragement, along with proactive partnerships, will help you enhance your parent’s quality of life and preserve health for many months to come.