Baby Boomers Have New Desire

The baby boomer generation that are in their ?golden years? is causing demands for senior home care services to rise. The demographic, economic, and technological change is created because this population segment is living longer, healthier, and active lives.

Some seniors know and understand the eventual burden of caretaking. From the experience of taking care of their aging parents, the baby boomer generation is not settling for the ?alone and invisible? pathway as did their parents. (Note: we are not blaming the parents of yester year)

Today?s seniors, from lessons learned, are initiating pro-active planning for life after retirement and as they continue aging. At some distant future, the adult children may eventually be or unable to provide any care for them. Acknowledging and respecting that their adult children have lives, careers, and family of their own may over time may cause conflict in providing the require care for them.

In bygone days, elders and their adult children lived in old-fashioned neighborhoods where a nucleus of family, friends, and neighbors have a support network that allowed them to assist each other with the caretaking of aging members of the community. The caretaking activities would have included taking the elder members to doctor appointments, grocery shopping, recreational outings, conversations, administrating medication(s), gatherings, or meal preparations. The responsibility was shared; caretaking was less stressful for the adult children and other families.

In today?s society, when the adult children are unable to provide the care necessary for parents, the caregiver is faced with searching for and selecting alternative living arrangements and/or care giving providers such as nursing services, respite care, or assistant living facilities. The costs, depending on services may be expensive along with other barriers such as cultural, language, inappropriate care facilities, or can become a high risk of being abused.

Another barrier to senior services as well as the most challenging and emotionally difficult is when seniors have high assets that have become a block to receiving Medicare. To receive Medicare benefits, the individual must spend down all their assets to qualify for Medicare services.

Armed with experience and knowledge, baby boomers envision a different type of elder services. The boomers dream of having access to affordable housing, using assets toward care, convenience services, an inter-generational community and a model that is not solely based on business but inclusive of people caring oriented with people.

For seniors that desire to continue to live in home of their own, a community created and based on caring for people with people will provide a type of senior home care that is practical, affordable, convenient, and bundle with a stimulating social environment.

I?m a healthcare expert specializing in live-in care 19047.

Source: http://fitness-retired.com/more_articles/baby-boomers-have-new-desire/

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