Seniors often resist assistance to remain living independently at home, which can put their health and safety at risk and stress family members who worry. To overcome resistance, one must understand the reasons behind it, explain how assistance benefits both parties' goals, bring in outside help like relatives or professionals for objective input, research care options to reassure seniors, use examples of problems to suggest help, and respect the senior's final decision while ensuring their safety.

1. OVERCOMING RESISTANCE
TO ASSISTANCE

2. Resistance to Care
Seniors prefer to remain in their
home on their own
 High chance of injury or accident
 Put stress on family members,
who worry about seniors’ health
& safety

3. Strategies to Overcome Resistance to Care
1. Understand where the resistance is coming from
Don’t make assumptions. Ask
parents frankly & listen to their
explanation

4. Strategies to Overcome Resistance to Care
 Remind seniors that yours &
their goals are not different
 Explain the impacts their
refusal of care can have on
your life
2. Explain your goals

5. Strategies to Overcome Resistance to Care
Employ help from:
 Relatives
 Close friends
 Third-party professional
 valuable input and
experiences sans the
emotional attachments
3. Bring in outside help

6. Strategies to Overcome Resistance to Care
 agedcareaustralia.gov.au
 homeinstead.com.au
 Conduct careful research to
reassure parents
4. Research your options

7.  Use specific signs of problems of
seniors as backing proof to raise
safety concerns and suggest
additional assistance
 Free consultation are available at
most professional caregiving services
Strategies to Overcome Resistance to Care
5. Explain how a service will make it possible to remain
independence longer in his or her own home

8. Strategies to Overcome Resistance to Care
 All planning must involved seniors
 The final decision must come
from seniors, as long as they
have sounded mind
 Unilateral decision is accepted
only when the senior is suffering
from dementia or Alzheimer’s
6. Respect your parent’s decision

9. For more information or service inquiries
+61 3 9754 4861
http://zee.homeinstead.com.au/outereast