What Can You Do about a Senior Who Wants to Be Controlling?

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Home Care Services Oakland TN - What Can You Do about a Senior Who Wants to Be Controlling?

Home Care Services Oakland TN – What Can You Do about a Senior Who Wants to Be Controlling?

Some aging adults find that as they start to feel as if they’re losing control, they become more controlling with the people around them. That might mean that you start to feel the brunt of that behavior.

Learn as Much as You Can about Her Health

It’s entirely possible that some of your senior’s controlling behaviors are related to her health. This is especially true if domineering tendencies are a new thing for her. Talk with her doctor and learn as much as you possibly can about what is going on with your aging adult.

Talk to Her about How the Controlling Behavior Makes You Feel

Sit down with your elderly family member and have an open and honest conversation about how this makes you feel. Let her know that when she’s trying to micromanage what you do, it undermines you and complicates the situation for you. It’s very possible that your senior doesn’t realize how her actions and her words affect you and seeing things from your perspective inspires her to make a change.

Communicate about Your Feelings Afterward, Too

The thing about establishing boundaries with your aging adult is that you have to keep enforcing them with her. If you don’t speak up when she crosses your boundary again, that lets her know on a subconscious level that it’s okay to do that. You have to lovingly remind her when something happens again that it affects you in a negative way.

Let Other People Handle the Areas Where You Disagree the Most

There are some areas in your senior’s life where you are not going to agree with each other. At some point, you may have to let that go. Delegating those situations to other people who don’t have the same issue with your senior can make a big difference both for you and for her. Home care services providers are perfect helpers in this situation because they can handle every aspect of what your senior needs.

Step Away for a Bit

You’re going to need to take more breaks from caregiving, too. Having the help of home care services providers is actually going to facilitate this for you. Take advantage of their presence and leave for a while. It will be easier for you to cope when you have some time away.

This is not an easy way for you and your family member to embark on a caregiving journey together. But while you can’t change her behaviors and reactions, you can do something about your own. Do what you can and let go of the rest.

For Home Care Services in Oakland TN, please contact the caring staff at Personal Care Services MidSouth today!

 

About Walter Black

Born and raised in Mississippi. He graduated from Mississippi State University with a BS in Industrial Engineering, and from Angelo State University’s School of Business with his MBA. Walter has worked in the senior market for nearly 15 years and has obtained the distinguish honor of Certified Senior Advisor (CSA) by the Society of Certified Senior Advisors, an organization committed to providing ongoing and meaningful support to Seniors addressing their health, financial, and social issues. Walter has spent the last five years building PCS MidSouth into a premier Home Care Agency. With three locations in the MidSouth providing services to clients in three states: Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama. The company is poise for growth and is expecting to expand its territory in the MidSouth.
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