Home Maintenance and our Senior Loved Ones

If your aging parents or grandparents are finding that household chores are becoming more and more difficult, you might consider hiring a professional cleaning company. A cleaning service can be invaluable for the elderly, especially for those who live alone, and a trusted, professional cleaning company can provide that service.

Many older people lack the mobility, strength, flexibility and stamina to be able to clean their home. Keeping a home clean, presentable and hygienic takes hours a week even for the best of us and can be an insurmountable struggle for someone with physical limitations or chronic health issues.

Typically, problems spring up around specific cleaning tasks that involve uncomfortable positions, like bending over a toilet bowl or a dishwasher, or dusting high areas. Tasks that require standing on aging hip and knee joints, like vacuuming the carpet or sweeping kitchen floors, are also very difficult for the elderly.

There are even dangers to our senior loved ones when it comes to typical home maintenance tasks like changing lightbulbs, cleaning high ceiling fans, changing out batteries in the smoke detectors and replacing filters in the air and heating units. Getting on a ladder is dangerous for those with stability and balance issues.

Hiring a professional home cleaning service for your aging parents or family members can make a big difference.

Professional cleaners will ensure that your elderly parents or grandparents won’t be at risk of a dangerous fall or hurting themselves trying to keep their home clean.

Hiring a service also prevents the elderly from living in a home that is unsafe and unhygienic.

Ensuring that the tasks that would require a ladder are left to professionals.

Sometimes the homes of elderly people are not as clean as they would prefer solely because of inability. It can be very difficult to let people know that they need help. If you have a family member or friend whose home is not up to what you know are their usual pristine standards, they might simply be unable to do all that they want to do.

Encouraging your loved ones to consider getting a professional service prevents them from handling these tasks and allows them to stay off the ladder. It enables them to avoid bending over or getting on their hands and knees to clean the house. QCBN

By Lucy Leyva

Prescott Maid to Order also offers home maintenance services through our sister company Prescott Property Maintenance and can help with any of these tasks with one phone call.

Lucy Leyva is the owner of Prescott Maid to Order and Prescott Property Maintenance.