Caregiver Support Services
APRIL 9, 2024
However, this process can be taxing on caregivers for various reasons. For many, the difficult conditions involved can lead to caregiver burnout—a state of physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion. Recognizing the causes of caregiver burnout and taking proactive steps to prevent them is essential.
Accessible Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
When your loved one reaches the point where a professional caregiver is needed, that person becomes an extension of your family. Caregivers are there day and night to ensure your loved one remains safe, healthy, and happy. So, it means a lot for caregivers to know how big of an impact they are making by showing appreciation.
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Hope Hospice
MARCH 22, 2023
Caregiving is a hard job for family care partners and professionals alike. For others, it’s spending time with loved ones, going to church, participating in a book club, or listening to music while on a scenic drive. Hope Hospice has a group specifically for family caregivers of loved ones with dementia.
AJN Off the Charts
JUNE 6, 2023
His once unblemished mural, now in ruins, left him dependent and vulnerable, requiring nursing assistance for basic tasks like toileting and bathing. I published my first children’s book last fall. ” The post Crumbled Walls: A Transformative Caregiving Journey appeared first on Off the Charts.
Home Sweet Home In-Home Care
APRIL 13, 2022
If the activity invokes anxiety, close the book and move on to something else. Smelling familiar, enjoyable scents, which could have meaning for the person: freshly mowed grass, flowers that grew around their family home as a child, a specific brand of shampoo, bubble bath, or soap they used to bathe the kids when they were little, etc.
Chicago Caregiving
MAY 31, 2022
Reduce glare by positioning lights directly behind you, pointed on the task (such as on the book you’re reading). For example: In addition to a ride home after the surgery, some older patients may need drivers or caregivers to be with them for follow-up visits, and possibly to assist with administering eye drops following surgery.
The Caregiving Years Training Academy
OCTOBER 29, 2023
After his home health aides gave him a bed bath, he settled comfortably into his pillows on his hospital bed. on July 2 when a nurse enrolled in my Certified Caregiving Consultant training. How many other family caregivers experience that awful balance check — checking in on a dying caree while also checking their bank account?
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