Home Cooking for Seniors - a Pressure Cooker of Stress for Caregivers of Older Adults

Adult daughters – who typically serve as home cooks for seniors – are feeling the heat in the kitchen, according to a recent study of family caregivers.  The stress is especially high for adult children who are caring and cooking for someone with several nutritional risk factors.

Research conducted for the local caregiving company Home Instead Senior Care revealed caring for an older person who has three or more nutritional risk factors is tied to increased stress levels.  Of the caregivers who rated their lives as extremely stressful, 67 percent were caring for loved ones with three or more nutritional risk factors compared with 33 percent of caregivers whose seniors had fewer than three nutritional risk factors.

Adult children caring for an older adult (average age 81) reported the top three nutritional risks as:

1. Three or more prescribed or over-the-counter drugs per day.

2. An illness or condition that made the senior change his or her diet.

3. Having lost or gained more than 10 pounds in the past six months without trying.

That’s why Home Instead Senior Care has partnered with national nutrition experts from the University of Maryland and Duke University Medical Center to promote healthy, stress-free grocery shopping and meal preparation tips and recipes for families in New Haven.

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