The Fitbit, the Apple Watch, the Garmin Venu, the Mii Band are all popular smartwatches for sale. Your mom’s doctor wants her to lose weight. She’s asked about getting a smartwatch to help her get motivated. Could this kind of device and home care services help her?

To decide if it’s worth investing in a smartwatch, your mom should decide her objectives. Certain smartwatches do far more than others. Some count the steps that are taken every day and may track pulse rates. Others do far more and can track the heart’s rhythm, get oxygen saturation statistics, and track sleep quality.

Your mom’s goals for losing weight should be exercising more and improving her diet. For that reason, she needs a smartwatch that will count her steps. Some of the devices work with scales to measure BMI, water percentage, and muscle mass. Here are some of the features she wants when weight loss is her goal.

Step Counting

Exercising more is your mom’s goal, so a smartwatch that counts her steps is a good start. Look for a device that sets goals. Start her at 5,000 steps and increase it from there. Ideally, she should aim for 10,000 steps per day, but it is based on her fitness level and mobility.

Heart Rate Monitoring

Weight loss involves regular exercise at a moderate pace. If your mom’s heart rate isn’t increasing during her workout, she may not be engaging in suitable vigorous activities. The target for aerobic exercises is to get your heart rate up to the appropriate level for 30 minutes.

How do you know your target heart rate? A simple formula for the maximum is to take 220 and subtract your age. If your mom is 70, she should aim for a heart rate of no more than 150 beats per minute (bpm).

She also needs to know the minimum. In this case, multiply the maximum target heart rate by 0.64, which is 96 bpm. She wants to keep her heart rate between 96 and 150 for 30 minutes. Make sure her doctor approves this much exercise before she gets started.

Calorie Counting

Some watches can help your mom track her calories. It will count her caloric needs, look at the calories she burns, and help her stay on track with meals and snacks.

How Home Care Aides Can Help

Your mom needs to have support meeting her goals. If you’re busy at work, hire caregivers from a home care agency to help her with her diet and to cheer her on while she exercises.

Her home care aides can take her for follow-up visits with her doctor. They can cook healthy meals for her. They can even take her shopping for healthy grocery items. Call our home care agency to make the arrangements for services she needs to lose weight.

If you or a family member are in need of hiring Home Care Services in Delray Beach FL, call the caring professionals at Star Multi Care today at (954) 870-4770. Providing service in Boca Raton, Boynton Beach, Coconut Creek, Deerfield Beach, Delray Beach, Ft. Lauderdale, Lauderhill, Margate, Pompano Beach and Tamarac.

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Stephen Sternbach

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With over 35 years of experience, Stephen Sternbach has been the Chairman of the Board of Directors, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Star Multi Care Services since 1987. After the sale of the New York and New Jersey operations of Star Multi Care Services, Sternbach brought the company private where he remains President and CEO of this 40-million dollar company. With Sternbach at the helm, Star Multi Care Services employs more than 650 employees, in six offices throughout Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York.

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