Supporting your parents is important to you, your brothers, and your sisters. You realize you also cannot lose sight of your own family’s needs, household responsibilities, and work hours. How do you all support each other without ignoring your parents’ needs?

Allow Venting

Stress may build up. If you have a sibling who is feeling overwhelmed, let him/her vent to you. Don’t take it personally. Remember that pressures with work, finances, and many other factors may increase the stress to levels that are difficult to manage. Let your sibling vent to you.

Take One Night a Week or Month to Unwind

Once a week, gather at your parents’ house and bring a potluck meal or get a family dinner from a nearby restaurant. Anyone who feels ill needs to stay away and skip a week. Others can enjoy a meal, glass of wine, and conversation. Your parents benefit from socialization, too. It’s a good way to unwind and have a responsibility-free evening.

Make these gatherings unique by switching up the cuisine each month. You might do an Italian night one month and Polynesian the next. You could do Greek, Indian, or Japanese others. End the night watching a movie together.

Encourage Your Parents to Chip In

Your parents may not be able to do everything around their home. Don’t let them sit back and watch everyone else do the work. Encourage them to chip in in ways that they can manage. They may not be able to go into the basement to do the laundry, but they could fold clean clothes at the dining room table.

Find things your parents can do and make sure they’re encouraged to do that task. If your mom is good at baking but can’t read the recipe, you could have a smart speaker like Alexa or Google read a recipe out loud. Someone can help carry a pan to the oven or take it out of the oven.

Divvy Up Tasks

Divvy up the tasks you’re all helping your parents with. Make sure everyone is doing their fair share and that one person isn’t doing double the work.

A shared calendar with days/chores written out ends any arguments over who is supposed to do what. If someone is sick and needs a day off, have a back-up plan. You could have a caregiver stop by or people could switch days.

Have Elderly Care Aides Helping Out

Elderly care services are ideal at making sure no one in your family feels overwhelmed. Your parents have the help they need with daily chores like housekeeping and medication reminders. You and your siblings know your parents have someone with them when you have to work or take care of your own household responsibilities.

If you are considering Elderly Care Services in Galion OH, call the caring staff at Central Star Home Health at (419) 610-2161.  Providing services for families in Mansfield, Lexington, Bellville, Crestline, Galion, Shelby, Ashland, Ontario and the surrounding areas.

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Stephen Sternbach

CEO at Central Star Home Health Services

With over 35 years of experience, Stephen Sternbach has been the Chairman of the Board of Directors, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Star Multi Care Services since 1987. After the sale of the New York and New Jersey operations of Star Multi Care Services, Sternbach brought the company private where he remains President and CEO of this 40-million dollar company. With Sternbach at the helm, Star Multi Care Services employs more than 650 employees, in six offices throughout Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York.

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