Comfort Keepers® Professionals Can Provide Home Healthcare During the Winter Months

Edmonton Senior Home Care  |  December 10, 2024

What Every Senior in Edmonton, AB, Needs to Know About Professional Home Health Care During the Winter

What do you need to know about home healthcare during the Winter? Throughout the year, there are many times when the assistance of a home healthcare professional is helpful. One of those times is during the winter months. To ensure the safety of seniors, there are precautions to be taken during this time of year.

The winter weather can be extremely stressful for families and seniors. Loved ones and family members of seniors spend many hours concerned or worried about their safety. 

To alleviate some worry, many enlisted the support of a home healthcare professional, like Comfort Keepers. Professional caregivers can assist with chores, and errands, and provide a much-needed companion for the senior.

Senior Home Healthcare During Winter

The winter season can be challenging for everyone, but seniors must take a few precautions to help eliminate these challenges, such as packing a winter prep bag or box for seniors in ice or winter storms.

Winter Prep for Seniors

The package should include flashlights with batteries, a weather radio, and warm clothing. These should be put in a location that is easy for the senior to locate if the power fails during a winter storm. It is good to have a home health professional to assist the senior. This will ensure that someone does a well-being check during the winter.

The Home Health Care Comfort Zone

It is important for aging adults to feel comfortable during the cold season. This references physical and emotional comfort. Warm clothing, hats, socks, and winter coats should be prepared for wear before the cold season. This is to ensure that they are readily available should they be needed.

In addition, the senior should be comfortable at home and not concerned about being alone all the time. Winter weather can restrict the amount of travel, social engagements, and outdoor interaction the older adult has, which can cause them to become depressed. Interaction with a professional caregiver can prevent or decrease the chances of depression occurring.

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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