The baby boomer generation that are in their ?golden years? is causing demands for senior home care services to rise. The demographic, economic, and technological change is created because this population segment is living longer, healthier, and active lives.
Some seniors know and understand the eventual burden of caretaking. From the experience of taking care of their aging parents, the baby boomer generation is not settling for the ?alone and invisible? pathway as did their parents. (Note: we are not blaming the parents of yester year)
Today?s seniors, from lessons learned, are initiating pro-active planning for life after retirement and as they continue aging. At some distant future, the adult children may eventually be or unable to provide any care for them. Acknowledging and respecting that their adult children have lives, careers, and family of their own may over time may cause conflict in providing the require care for them.
In bygone days, elders and their adult children lived in old-fashioned neighborhoods where a nucleus of family, friends, and neighbors have a support network that allowed them to assist each other with the caretaking of aging members of the community. The caretaking activities would have included taking the elder members to doctor appointments, grocery shopping, recreational outings, conversations, administrating medication(s), gatherings, or meal preparations. The responsibility was shared; caretaking was less stressful for the adult children and other families.
For the current society, if the adult children are unable to provide the necessary care for parents, the caregiver is often faced with searching for alternative living arrangements and/or caregiving providers such as nursing services, respite care, or assistant living facilities. Depending on the services, the cost may be astronomical, along with other barriers such as cultural, language, mis-housed in care facilities, or tolerating a young staffer?s impatience.
The most heart wrenching, challenging, and difficult barriers to care for some seniors are the required liquidation of valuable assets in order to qualify for Medicare benefits. To qualify for Medicare services, the senior must spend down all their assets to zero to receive Medicare.
Armed with experience and knowledge, baby boomers envision a different type of elder services. The boomers dream of having access to affordable housing, using assets toward care, convenience services, an inter-generational community and a model that is not solely based on business but inclusive of people caring oriented with people.
For seniors that desire to continue to live in home of their own, a community created and based on caring for people with people will provide a type of senior home care that is practical, affordable, convenient, and bundle with a stimulating social environment.
I?m a healthcare consultant specializing in senior home care. Click here for more information.
Source: http://senior.infonex.us/2012/03/12/21st-seniors-are-well-informed-and-planning-ahead/
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