Caregiving

Elderlies receive care from both professional (paid) and unofficial (unpaid) carers. More and more patients with complex diseases and higher degrees of acuity are being cared for by both groups.

To assist them to take care of their loved ones and themselves, family caregivers—who frequently balance other family and professional obligations and live far from the care recipient—need improved support, training, resources, and tools.

Issues and Challenges

Family caregivers may go through:

  • Stress
  • Loneliness
  • Sleep Issues
  • Mental and Physical exhaustion
  • Frustration and Dissatisfaction
  • Taking difficult behaviour personally

Advice

1. Helping with self-care, mobility, supervision, and household chores. Nearly all carers assist older people who require care with household duties like shopping, laundry, housework, food, transportation, bills, money management, and home upkeep. If the older person needs support due to health or functional limitations, these duties are frequently carried out.

2. Supporting People Emotionally and Socially When older people first require caregiving due to growing frailty or the development of severe disease, they require emotional and social supports that are distinct from the normal interactions among family members. The proportion of reciprocity between the caregiver and care recipient has changed, which is a significant development. Despite attempts to maintain some reciprocity, the care recipient may be able to contribute less to the relationship as their needs increase.

3. Healthcare Provider: The caregiving roles in the area of health and medical care is getting more and more complicated. In the past, medications were simply given. These days, prescription drugs for home use can also be administered intravenously, topically, or by patches and injections. When the care recipient is critically ill or severely disabled, the caregiver may additionally be managing technical procedures and equipment, such as catheters, tracheostomies, and feeding and drainage tubes, in addition to treating symptoms and keeping an eye on the care recipient's status

4. Advocate and coordinate care. Family caregivers frequently act as coordinators of care and advocates. In their capacity as advocates, they should help care recipients locate the community and healthcare resources they require. Identifying the care recipient's eligibility for particular services and the associated costs may be necessary. The older person and the caregiver frequently come across confusing and fragmented care systems that involve a variety of organizations, including health care providers, governmental and private sector community-based groups, employers, and numerous possible payers.

5. Making decisions and surrogacy: Decision-making for and, in some cases, with care recipients is frequently done by caregivers. The level of caregiver participation varies, though. The directive, participative, supporting or guiding, advising, advocacy, and trying to hold back and let the older adult decide are some examples of decision-making roles.

How Online Counselling can be helpful?

Caregiving is quite taxing. In order for you to care for someone else, you must first take care of yourself.
Speaking with an online counsellor can assist caregivers in better handling the obligations and emotional toll of their everyday responsibilities.
Online counselling choices make it easier to do that if that means setting aside a little time each week for therapy.

Frequently Asked Questions

Caregivers help other individuals with their social or medical needs. Caregiving may entail assistance with one or more necessary daily tasks, such as getting dressed and taking a shower, shopping, paying bills, and providing transportation.
According to studies, between 30 and 40 percent of dementia carers experience both despair and emotional stress. Stress and irritability are reported by carers. 16% of carers report experiencing emotional stress, and 26% say that caring for their loved one has an emotional toll on them.
For everything they do, carers deserve to be loved and respected. Additionally, they require an unbiased online counsellor who won't judge them or offer them suggestions. They also require some time for themselves.


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