Understanding How Respite Care Can Benefit You and Your Loved Ones
Respite care is an essential service that provides temporary relief to family caregivers. See how it can benefit you and your loved ones.
The Importance of Respite Care for Family Caregivers
For family caregivers, respite care can mean the difference between burnout and a sustainable home care routine. Learn more about it in this blog post!
Why Respite Care Should Be a Part of Every Family’s Care Plan
Although it’s highly gratifying, serving as a family caregiver can be physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausting. No matter what role you find yourself serving, here’s why respite care should be an essential part of your family’s overall care plan.
Feeling Overwhelmed as a Senior Caregiver
It’s not uncommon for family caregivers to experience chronic stress and anxiety that eventually place their health and wellbeing at risk. If you’re a senior caregiver, here are several proven ways to keep yourself from feeling overwhelmed.
How to Reduce Stress in Yourself and Others
Most family caregivers are amazing people that devote their lives to caring for aging in place elderly loved ones. But caregiving can also be very stressful and exhausting, especially when you throw in a traumatic event like the COVID-19 outbreak.
How to Set Realistic New Year’s Caregiving Resolutions
As the calendar moves into January, it’s common to think about New Year’s resolutions. If you’re a family caregiver who’s looking after an aging in place senior, making a list of caregiving resolutions can help you more efficiently balance your responsibilities with a household, spouse, children and job.
Surviving the Holidays as a Sandwich Generation Caregiver
The holidays can be a hectic time of year, but when you’re trying to make all those last-minute preparations while also looking after an aging in place elderly loved one, you can find yourself feeling completely overwhelmed. Being a member of the “sandwich generation” during the holidays can ratchet up your stress level to the point that it places your health and wellbeing at risk.
How to Deal with Negative Feelings as a Caregiver
Serving as a family caregiver for an aging in place elderly loved one is highly rewarding, but it can also be very hectic and exhausting at times. As a result, it’s not uncommon for a family caregiver to start developing negative feelings towards the senior they’re caring for. If those emotions are not promptly addressed, they can not only adversely affect a caregiver’s health and wellbeing, but also that of their loved one. Fortunately, working through negative feelings as a caregiver is possible by taking these steps.
How to Ask Siblings for Help When Serving as the Primary Caregiver
For the past 6 months, you’ve been taking care of your aging in place elderly mother. Your siblings live nearby but so far, they’ve been “MIA” when it comes to mom’s care. At first everything was going well, but now you’re starting to feel the stress of being a primary caregiver who’s also juggling a part-time job and household. Fortunately, there are several reliable ways to involve your siblings in a loved one’s care, starting with these.
How to Care for a Bed Bound Senior
Caring for a bed bound senior is one of the most demanding and time-consuming scenarios a family caregiver can face. But providing your loved one with the care they need is possible when you follow these tips from the pros.