Massage Therapy: Occupational therapy offers a variety of different ways to help your senior, including lining up massage therapy services that your senior can access at home.
But why should your elderly family member even consider having massage therapy, whether it’s at home or not? Turns out that there are a lot of reasons for her to add massage to her regular routine.
Improving Mobility
Massage therapy is incredibly helpful in increasing mobility. It loosens muscles and tendons, while also increasing blood flow in the areas that are being massaged. This can help your senior to become more active, especially if she gets massages on a regular basis. If your elderly family member has joint issues, arthritis, or other problems that limit her mobility, massage may be a way to alleviate those issues.
Reducing Inflammation
One of the ways that massage therapy at home helps with mobility is by moving stalled fluid, especially from your senior’s extremities. Some health issues, like COPD and heart disease, can affect your elderly family member’s circulation, making it harder for her body to release trapped fluids. Reducing inflammation can also help to reduce pain.
Reducing Blood Pressure
Another benefit of massage therapy can be reducing blood pressure. That’s particularly helpful if your elderly family member has high blood pressure levels. Massage alone can’t necessarily replace your senior’s other treatments for high blood pressure, including medication, but it can help along with other techniques, like learning meditation.
Enhancing Feelings of Wellness
Massage therapy helps with all sorts of health issues, but it also helps to relax the brain as well as the body. Massage can cause the brain to release endorphins and other chemicals, like oxytocin, which is a hormone associated with social bonding and love. Regular massage can dramatically increase overall feelings of happiness and wellness.
Offering Comfort to Seniors
Besides just helping your senior to feel better, massage can also be comforting. Human touch is very powerful, and for seniors who live alone, being touched may not be something that they experience often. Massage therapy at home can be beneficial even if all your senior needs is a little comforting touch on a routine basis.
In general, anything that improves your senior’s quality of life is a good thing. If it also offers her some health benefits that she can enjoy as well, that’s another big reason to give it a try. Massage therapy can have both short-term and long-term benefits that your elderly family member may find incredibly helpful.
If you or an aging loved-one is considering Massage Therapy in Holmdel, NJ, please contact the caring staff at Max Health & Wellness today. (732) 576-3550
Beth’s inspired her to always desire great care for seniors and has been working and advocating for seniors since 1988. She earned a degree in Special Education from the Pennsylvania State University and a juris doctorate from Hofstra University. Beth became an elder care attorney to advocate for both the elderly and people living with handicaps before started a home care agency in 2003.
Her passion has always been to ensure that her clients receive better care than her grandparents had, and she works tirelessly to make sure that happens. Her motto and belief has always been and will always be that she (and her staff) will care for your family as we would our own!
For years, Beth has “thought outside the box” and imagined a company that could supplement the in-home care that many seniors need. In-home care provides assistance with the activities of daily living, but many seniors are homebound for a variety of reasons: their physical condition, not being able to drive, mobility concerns, or because they believe that being at home (especially during the COVID-19 pandemic) was the safest place to be.
During the pandemic, Beth made the decision to launch Max Health and Wellness. She envisioned the need to provide additional in-home services to those who need them, specifically therapeutic solutions to create wellness and self-care experiences for seniors and others. These services will range from clinical therapy services such as physical, occupational and speech therapy, mental health counselling, non-medical massage therapy and reflexology, nutritional counseling, and at-home salon/spa services such as therapeutic facial and hair styling.
Beth’s goal is that all of the health and wellness services offered by Max Health and Wellness will MAXIMIZE the quality of life and well-being of seniors throughout the state of New Jersey. She looks forward to having you experience our concierge therapeutic services and treatments.
- Five Conditions Massage Therapy at Home Treats for Your Senior - August 10, 2022
- How Can Occupational Therapy at Home Help with Aphasia? - July 28, 2022
- How Does Occupational Therapy Help Your Senior Avoid a Fall? - July 7, 2022
