Each week, Home Instead Senior Care of Richmond profiles a senior retirement community in Richmond or the Northern Neck. Today, we highlight the Dunlop House in Colonial Heights, just south of Richmond.
Dunlop House offers residential assisted living and memory care for seniors in Colonial Heights near Richmond, VA.
Dunlop House offers both Assisted Living and specialized Alzheimer’s and memory care. Designed with seniors in mind, Dunlop House features studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom floor plans with large sunny windows overlooking beautifully landscaped grounds and gardens.
Residents can enjoy the home-like warmth of the community living room with fireplace, library, sun room and private dining room, where intimate dinners can be shared with family and friends.
Dunlop House offers floor plans ranging from a 312 square-ft assisted living studio to a 676 square-ft two-bedroom suite. It is conveniently located at 235 Dunlop Farms Boulevard, Colonial Heights, VA 23834.
For more information on Dunlop House, visit their web site at www.dunlophouse.com, or call 804.520.0050.
And for more information on how Home Instead Senior Care of Richmond’s CareGiver services can help you or a loved one remain living independently at home, wherever home may be, call our offices today at 804.527.1100. We are always happy to answer any questions you may have.
You can also learn more about us from our website and our web brochure.
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The Hidden Gem in Senior Care – The Spa Toilet Seat
As the senior population continues to grow, the need for both caregiver assistance and tools to increase one’s independence becomes extremely important. There are numerous health issues that plague the senior population. With the cost of health care rising every day, maximizing care options at home has become a necessity for many of today’s seniors. Some opt for a caregiver- often a relative or loved one, while others utilize facilities such as assisted living. But certainly, many attempt to remain as independent as possible for as long as they can.
As we age, the body naturally loses mobility, and the inability to do daily tasks can become difficult or embarrassing for a grown adult to communicate. Needing help with truly “personal” needs can become very demeaning and challenging. Asking for or proving assistance in the areas of bathing, personal hygiene, or toileting is embarrassing, and no senior likes to admit when these sensitive issues have become a problem that affects their daily lives.
Many caregivers, doctors, and nurses are now beginning to discover a new product that helps with this issue. The spa toilet seat is quickly gaining popularity among seniors and their caregivers. By making it easier to use the bathroom for those with limited mobility, it helps alleviate the need for caregiver involvement and increases a senior’s independence at home. Popular in Japan and Europe, the emergence of spa toilet seats into the American marketplace is only recent, and its applications and benefits to the senior living community have been somewhat of a hidden miracle.
Electronic units such as Spaloo offer advanced features in an easy to use unit. A spa toilet seat simply replaces an existing toilet seat with minimal installation requirements. With the push of a button, a small wand extends and sprays a gentle stream of warm water to clean the user, resulting in a hands-free, sanitary toilet experience that requires little to no toilet paper. Spaloo’s hands-free system offers relief to those who require additional assistance while using the bathroom, including surgery patients, those with mobility problems, and people with MS, Parkinson’s or arthritis. In addition, using a bidet toilet seat such as Spaloo can help reduce or alleviate discomfort from incontinence, constipation, UTI, and hemorrhoids, ailments often associated with the elderly population.
The benefits that a spa toilet seat offers the senior community are extensive. No senior or caregiver should have to suffer with the embarrassment associated with personal hygiene or toileting issues when such a low cost solution exists.
For more information about the Spaloo spa toilet seat, please visit http://www.spaloo.com or email bruce@spaloo.com.