Why Eating With a Companion is a Healthier Option for Seniors

Health Eating for Seniors  |  July 18, 2024

What Every Senior in Edmonton, AB, Needs to Know About Healthy Eating Practices

Eating with a companion is important. Sometimes seniors may suffer from malnutrition because they don’t want to make a meal just for one person. Often older people state that they have suffered their loneliest feelings during mealtimes when they must eat alone without anyone to talk to. Ensuring your loved one isn’t eating alone will help seniors make better meal choices and stay nourished.

Seven Tips for Seniors About Why Eating With a Companion is Better:

Tip #1. Eating Socially Helps with Better Choices:

People typically make the healthiest choices with foods that offer good nutrition, when they eat socially. When seniors eat meals alone, the situation often stimulates sadness and even malnutrition. Imagine how difficult it would be for anyone who had previously had many years of companionship during meals with someone no longer around.

Tip #2. Benefits of Social Eating:

We typically eat in social groups, whether dining with just one person or eating with a family or group of friends. There is a visible increase in physical and mental health when we eat in social environments.

Tip #3. Better Choices:

People tend to choose wisely with food selections when they’re not alone, we are more likely to select home-cooked meals rather than ready-made meals.

Tip #4. Decrease Depression:

Decrease the risk or symptoms of depression by eating with others. Otherwise, meal times may be the most depressing part of an older person’s day.

Tip #5. Conversation:

Enjoying stimulating conversation while eating a meal with at least one other person can lessen the feeling of loneliness among loved ones and is better for optimal brain health.

Tip #6. Optimal Health:

Social dining lessens the risk of weight loss or malnutrition because older adults are likely to indulge more when dining with others. Seniors may be tempted to skip a meal altogether if they have no scheduled time to enjoy a meal with another person to look forward to.

Tip #7. In-Home Care for Seniors:

Don’t be worried about your loved ones who eat alone when you’re not there. Just call Comfort Keepers® to help. Our in-home caregivers will provide your parent, aging family member, or friend with companionship during mealtimes. The caregiver can help prepare nutritious foods to enjoy when seniors are alone.

Comfort Keepers® Edmonton is Proud to Offer a Wide Range of Home Senior Care Services

Our trained caregivers will ensure your loved one is comfortable, independent and safe in their home. On top of that, we will also aim to enhance their overall health, quality of life and general happiness. 

Top-Notch Home Healthcare for Seniors in Edmonton, Alberta

Comfort Keepers of Edmonton offers a wider range of senior care services. We offer retirement care, respite care, senior care, companionship care, end-of-life care, post-surgery care, palliative care, personal care, and senior living transition services. If you are concerned about the health and well-being of your aging loved ones we can help with 24-hour care and more!

Helping Seniors Age-in-Place with Companionship Care and Interactive Caregiving™

Empathetic care starts in the heart and allows us to meet our client’s needs. Our trained caregivers are selected with one specific quality in mind, empathy. We strive to stimulate our clients emotionally, mentally and socially, thus enhancing their overall quality of life. 

Our Interactive Caregiving™ provides a system of care that addresses companionship, safety, nutrition, mind, body, and activities of daily living (ADLs). The system increases seniors’ sense of well-being, independence and companionship by focusing on Senior Mind, Senior Body, Senior Nutrition, and Senior Safety.

Affordable and Client-Directed Homecare is Available for Qualifying Albertans

Comfort Keepers® Edmonton is an Approved Service Provider for the Client Directed Homecare Invoicing (CDHCI) Program Offered by Alberta Health Services. 

What is the Client Directed Home Care Invoicing Program (CDHCI)?

CDHCI is a great program provided by Alberta Health Services (AHS), allowing clients to choose an approved agency like, Comfort Keepers Edmonton for Personal Care, Respite Care and Homemaking needs. The chosen agency can then bill AHS directly for services rendered for approved hours through Alberta Blue Cross. Read more about the program HERE.

Accredited Home Care Edmonton

Comfort Keepers® Edmonton was awarded the “Accredited with Exemplary Standing” seal by Accreditation Canada. This honour demonstrates Comfort Keepers’ commitment to offering safe, high-quality home care to its senior clients in Edmonton, AB.

To learn more about senior in-home care in Edmonton, contact the Comfort Keepers® office. Our service territory includes Edmonton, Devon, Sherwood Park, Stony Plain and surrounding areas, contact the Comfort Keepers Edmonton office at 780-465-4665.

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