Hello, my beautiful friends and family! How are you? I hope you all are doing well. This is a requested blog post. The elderly persons in The Netherland need lots of care and attention. Persons above sixty years old are considered the elderly. The elderly persons who are well cared for tend to be happier and experience a longer life span. Elderly persons who are isolated and neglected tend to experience sadness, hopelessness, loneliness, heart failure and other disturbing health issues.
In The Netherlands, there are a lot of elderly persons. During my thesis research period with Rotterdam University of Applied science, one of my colleagues conducted research regarding loneliness amongst the elderly in The Netherlands, he found out that most elderly persons amongst his research population are very lonely. Some of the reasons behind the loneliness of the elderly are due to the fact that they do not have frequent visits from their family members and friends, they are not independent and so on. I have had the ample opportunity to have worked for some elderly persons in The Netherlands and in Scotland, then I was working with Allevo and Elder respectively.
In order to care better for the elderly and make them happier, the following are recommended;
- Visit the elderly often, at least every day of the week.
- Do not make them stay indoors all day for months without making sure their friends and family members visit them. The elderly need company, they need someone to talk to, drink a cup of thee with or coffee and share laughter with. Isolation is very bad and unhealthy for the elderly.
- Take the elderly for a nice work in the park, children’s playground or to a nice restaurant for a decent dinner!
- Hire help for them
- Help them with their daily activities such as self-care, personal hygiene and so on especially for the elderly with mobility issues.
- Have breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day. Eating alone can be very boring for the elderly
- If the elderly is suffering from acute arthritis, rheumatism, hire a physiotherapist or a professional masseuse to help them ease their pain.
I hope this blog post inspires you. I am a beauty and health consultant in The Netherlands. Please contact me if you need my services.
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