• Your older adult repeats the same thing several times in a short time.
• You worry that you live alone but when you raise the idea of professional care they have conflicts.
  
• He has been disoriented by spaces of time doing daily activities.
  
• You feel overwhelmed and guilty in relation to the time you spend with your family member.
  
• You notice it isolated or alone.

If you have confirmed any of the above ideas, look for us to be able to offer you help and advice.

• Find information about the stage our family is living.
• Accepting that feelings such as anger or in its most intense version, anger, and guilt, are completely normal human responses in situations of loss of control of one’s life and circumstances. There are also some negative facts that are unavoidable and that can not be changed, and situations of this type are usually faced by the caregivers of dependent people .
• Seek the help of other people with similar experiences.
• Search and find sources of emotional support, such as strengthening friendships or creating new friends.
• Establish emotional support networks with groups living similar situations.
• Plan and delegate assistance and care of the elderly leaving a time for himself.
• Establish limits in the performance of your task, delegating functions in other family members or friends and leaving aside your role as an indispensable person or that nobody else can do things better you, and above all, remember that you do not want say that you love less the person you care for.

To decide what our elders need, we must take into account our capabilities in time and economic possibilities. Also consider your degree of independence and state of health.

When doing your research, make the visits that are necessary to make a decision, preferably in conjunction with your older adult. If possible, talk to the adults who attend the site. Take into account the following characteristics of the place visited:

It is necessary to confirm that the personnel that assists them daily is qualified to stimulate physically and mentally; He is professional and kind.

Find out how many people attend and if they provide the service in a personalized way.

If necessary, assess whether your family member can manage money to buy their meals inside the place.

Also value if your family is located in time and space so that you feel calm if you leave by yourself or if instead, you need a place where the environment is controlled so that you or the transport you have chosen to pick it up.

Check if the place is nice and clean.

If the place does not take care of the obvious, it will not attend to what is not seen, such as the quality of its meals, care and activities.

Invite your older adult to take the test days, in case they are offered and consider their opinion to make a final decision.

In more than two years of operation, we have specialized in independent and with mild to moderate dependence. We have formed a team of multidisciplinary, professional, warm and friendly work, which directs all physical, mental, emotional and social activities; always in a dynamic way.

In Living Life Adult Day Care Center we seek to enhance the capabilities and autonomy of the elderly through daily support; make them increasingly aware of their environment, more participatory and collaborative for their integration into the family and social environment.

The design of the comprehensive wellness plan is designed for a heterogeneous and reduced group of up to fifteen older adults in such a way that allows us to provide personalized attention. We consider that to provide a comprehensive plan it is necessary to take into account the needs of the family and provide tools to recover the healthy coexistence with the elderly.

Our work does not only involve the stay in which the older adult is in the facilities of Living Life Adult Day Care Center, we also support the family throughout this stage of life with all that it entails, such as illnesses and until the death of loved ones.

The main caregiver is defined as the individual who spends most of the time-measured in number of hours per day-in the care of said person. In it lies the greatest effort and responsibility. To avoid the collapse and diseases and / or negative emotions of the primary caregiver, it is necessary for the primary caregiver to receive family, social and specialized assistance.

The care of an older adult can last several years and it is advisable to share responsibilities equally among all close relatives. If the care is for your parents, remember that theoretically all the brothers have the same responsibility.

Talk to your relatives of Livign Life Adult Day Care Center and invite them to know their facilities and services. It clarifies that it is not an asylum, that it will only be during the day and that it will return in the afternoon to house to live with its family.

For example, some families of our partners take turns transferring their parents or grandparents and cooperate for the monthly payment of the Club, taking into account their possibilities and what they commit to do. By distributing responsibility, it is more convenient to carry out care activities. Be realistic in what you can cooperate, some relatives do with money and others with time.

For older adults, physical activity consists of recreational or leisure activities, trips such as walking walks, occupational activities: housework, games, sports or exercises scheduled in the context of daily, family and community activities.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that older adults with reduced mobility perform physical activities to improve their balance and prevent falls, three days or more per week.

Aerobic, resistance and neuromotor exercise (balance) is also recommended. It is prudent to keep in mind that strength and balance exercises should precede aerobic exercise.