How to Keep Your Loved Ones Safe During COVID-19
By: Markerter Biz
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What can you do when you or your loved one are stuck at home during an outbreak?

How will you manage personal care or picking up groceries? How will you manage the feelings of isolation and anxiety?

Many of us feel anxious and fearful about COVID-19. If you have an elderly or at-risk loved one, we can help inform you about how professional caregivers support elders, and what YOU can do to slow the spread of infection.

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3 Ways Caregivers Keep Elders Safe and Comforted at Home

One of the recommendations to limit the spread of COVID-19 is physical distancing. Practice physical distancing by avoiding public places and traveling. Stay at home except when absolutely necessary to access essential goods and services, such as food, gas, and medications.

We know for a fact that staying at home reduces your chance of catching or spreading corona-virus. Your loved ones may find physical distancing especially difficult and isolating. That’s why having a professional caregiver helps achieve these 3 vital goals:

The safest place for even relatively healthy elders is often in their own homes. In-home caregivers help to make sure their clients’ needs are met.

For example, a home caregiver will help clients stock up on supplies. A home caregiver can assist with a shopping trip. Caregivers can make sure the house is stocked with necessary over-the-counter medicines and supplies to treat fever and other virus or cold symptoms. Home caregivers also can prepare healthy meals.

Elders who live alone already are at risk for isolation and loneliness. Your loved one may feel anxious and disconnected from others during this uncertain time. If you can’t visit, a home caregiver can help your loved one get in touch — and stay in touch — with family and friends.

A caregiver can assist with a hobby, help with at-home exercises or set up ways to communicate with loved ones such as writing letters, phoning, or using video calls.

Home Care Assistance caregivers are trained in recognizing the warning signs of illness. They are also taught how to prevent the spread of illness.

A caregiver can assist your loved one with:

Identifying and reporting symptoms

Remembering to regularly wash hands

Reminding clients to cover a cough or sneeze

Effectively cleaning and disinfecting surfaces

Monitoring medications

Being alone during a time of uncertainty can lead to fear and anxiety. Your loved one needs to know that support is available. As a family caregiver, you are doing your best to meet the needs of those who depend on you while following safety recommendations.

Consider home care as a good fit for keeping your elderly loved one safe while they stay at home.

What is COVID-19 and What are the Symptoms?

COVID-19 is an illness caused by an unusual type of corona-virus germ, first identified in December 2019, in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

If you or a loved one is infected with the corona-virus, you might notice symptoms such as:

The people most likely to develop serious symptoms are older adults (whose immune systems are not as robust as younger peoples) and people with compromised immune systems or respiratory systems.

How Does COVID-19 Spread?

COVID-19 spreads from person to person through respiratory droplets. Respiratory droplets can travel about 6 feet through the air, and are spread through:

Coughing

Sneezing

Loud talking

Blowing your nose

Touching your mouth, nose, or eyes after touching a contaminated surface

How to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19

The most reliable way to prevent getting sick is to not be exposed to the virus.

You CAN reduce your risk of exposure or spreading the virus: reduce your contact with other people.

Here’s how:

Remain at home and avoid contact with other people

Avoid gatherings of more than 10 people

Avoid traveling, shopping and social visits if possible

Use a drive-thru, takeout or delivery instead of eating at restaurants

Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth

Clean and disinfect objects and surfaces that people touch or use often

Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds

Maintain extra physical space (at least 6 feet) between yourself and other people if you must go out

If you feel ill:

Stay at home

Call your medical provider

Postpone visits to residents of nursing facilities, retirement communities, and assisted-living buildings

Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you sneeze or cough and immediately throw out the tissue

Wear a face mask when around other people

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