{"id":906,"date":"2016-02-29T21:02:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T21:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/?p=906"},"modified":"2016-02-29T21:02:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T21:02:57","slug":"what-can-you-do-when-your-aging-parents-want-to-stay-in-their-own-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/2016\/02\/29\/what-can-you-do-when-your-aging-parents-want-to-stay-in-their-own-home\/","title":{"rendered":"What can you do when your aging parents want to stay in their own home?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/103\/2016\/02\/FL2.jpg\" alt=\"FL2\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"alignright wp-image-908\" \/>We know exactly what you\u2019re going through because we\u2019ve been there.<\/p>\n<p>Your Mom and\/or Dad are having trouble living on their own. They can no longer handle all the usual daily home\u00a0activities, and you fear for their health and safety.\u00a0Unfortunately, your schedule doesn\u2019t allow you to assist or check in on them as often as they need. Or maybe you and other family members live too far away to provide them with consistent support.<\/p>\n<p>But, your parents also don\u2019t want to move into a facility. And you agree they are better off emotionally and psychologically if they can continue to live in the comfort and familiarity of their own home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Home Care Provides Hope and Peace of Mind<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what FirstLight Home Care is all about \u2014 providing professional, reliable and compassionate assistance that allows seniors to remain living in their own homes.<\/p>\n<p>Home care also offers many advantages over placing your loved one into a facility:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Home care if flexible.<\/strong> \u00a0Caregivers can be scheduled based upon the specific needs of your loved one, from just a few hours a week\u00a0to\u00a0a few hours per day, or even 24\/7 full-time care.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Home care is personal.<\/strong>\u00a0 In a facility, multiple caregivers are serving multiple clients. \u00a0But home caregivers provide one-on-one care, where relationships can be built between the caregiver and your loved one. The caregiver knows much more about your loved one for whom\u00a0they are caring and, therefore, can provide a much higher level of personalized care.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Home care is often less expensive than a facility.<\/strong>\u00a0 Because home care is flexible and can be scheduled to the specific personal needs of your loved one, it is often much less expensive than the cost of moving into a facility.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most important,\u00a0home care offers hope to your loved one \u2014 hope that they can continue to live the life they want, in the comfort of their own home, and on their own terms, and peace of mind to you that they will be receiving the best, most personalized care possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know exactly what you\u2019re going through because we\u2019ve been there. Your Mom and\/or Dad are having trouble living on their own. They can no longer handle all the usual daily home\u00a0activities, and you fear for their health and safety.\u00a0Unfortunately, your schedule doesn\u2019t allow you to assist or check in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-care"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}