Preparing Your Parent for a Visit to the Eye Doctor

By Jamie Shapiro | October 14, 2016 | Comments Off on Preparing Your Parent for a Visit to the Eye Doctor

Senior Care in Glenview IL

Going to the eye doctor at least once per year is an important part of protecting their vision and helping them to maintain their quality of life as they age in place. In addition to these annual checkups, it is important that you bring them to the eye doctor if they are experiencing symptoms of potential eye problems such as floaters in their line of vision, eye pain, redness, or trauma. Senior-Care-in-Glenview-ILPreparing your loved one for a visit to the eye doctor can help them to feel more confident and get the most out of this care.

 

Use these tips to help you prepare your parent for a visit to the eye doctor:

  • Explain why they are going. Especially if your aging parent is dealing with cognitive limitations or challenges such as those related to Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia, it is important that you take the time to explain to your parent why they need to go to the doctor. Whether it is for a routine checkup or to monitor a potential problem, helping them to understand this will keep their anxiety down and encourage them to cooperate more willingly.
  • Help them prepare their eyes. For the best results from their visit, it is important that your parent’s eyes are properly prepared for the services of the doctor. This means discouraging them from wearing makeup, ensuring their face is clean, and making sure that they wear the corrective devices that they are used to using so that the eye doctor can determine if they are working properly. If your parent may be suffering from an eye infection, make sure that they do not wear contact lenses.
  • Let them know what to expect. It can be uncomfortable to go to a doctor and not know what they are going to do. If your parent has not been to an eye doctor recently, or is seeing the doctor for something that they have not before, they might not know what to expect from the visit. Go over the types of tests and procedures they might undergo so that your parent can feel more confident cooperating with each step of the appointment.

 

Starting senior care for your aging parent can be a fantastic way to help them to pursue their ongoing health and wellbeing as they age in place. A senior home care services provider can help your loved one to understand the importance of taking control their health and doing the things that they need to do in order to protect and preserve that health. When it comes to guarding their eyesight, this care provider can provide reliable transportation to the eye doctor, support throughout the appointment, and reminders and guidance to keep your loved one compliant with the guidelines and recommendations offered by the doctor to protect their eyes. Outside of their doctor’s appointments, this care provider can give your aging loved one a wide array of highly personalized services tailored specifically to your senior’s individual challenges, limitations, and needs so that they are able to manage these in the way that is right for your parent.

 

If you or an aging loved one are considering senior care in Glenview, IL, contact the caring staff at Companion Services of America today at (847) 943-3786. Our home care service area includes Northbrook, Highland Park, Deerfield, Glenview, Buffalo Grove, Evanston, Des Plaines, Skokie, Lake Forest, Wilmette and the surrounding areas.

 

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