Communicating with Visitors
Overview
Visitors cannot always be expected to understand the needs or limitations of your loved one, especially since the situation or health of your loved may be change from day to day or over time. Communicating clearly with visitors about important needs and preferences is essential for facilitating meaningful and more comfortable experiences for everyone involved.
Tips
1. Provide visitors with helpful information regarding the abilities,
limitations and preferences of your loved one ahead of time.
2. Make suggestions for activities or plan some backup activities
for visits.
3. Keep important information regarding health care visible for
those who may be visiting while you are gone.
Downloadable Worksheet
Online Resources
Visiting
provides tips on how to plan for visits and prepare visitors
and how to prepare for visiting other person’s home. It
also includes tips on visiting older people who are living in
nursing homes and communicating with a physician. One focuses
on preparing family members for holiday visits.
http://www.alz.org/documents/national/FSVisiting.pdf
Holidays
focuses on how to best prepare visitors and your loved one for
holiday events.
http://www.alz.org/documents/national/FSHolidays.pdf
The materials provided under Managing Day to Day Health Care may also be helpful for some family members who provide additional assistance to your loved one.
Other Resources
Visit the Organizations
and Resources for Caregivers section of the Resources page
for additional information.
Contact the geriatric care specialist with your questions and comments regarding the Communicating with Visitors Module by emailing CAREgivinghelp@cje.net or by calling 773.381.6008.
It is important to remember the geriatric care specialist may not be able to respond immediately to your message. It may take two to three days before receiving a response.
Many questions submitted to the geriatric care specialist via email or voicemail message will be posted and responded to through the CAREgivinghelp message board. If you do not want your question and its response posted on the message board, please make your wish clear in your email or voicemail message to the geriatric care specialist.
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