4 Things to Know from the Start When Providing Home Care for a Loved One
It feels like you need to know everything from the very beginning when providing home care for a loved one, but that’s impossible, right? These tips, on the other hand, can help you to treat caregiving more as the marathon that it is instead of a sprint.
Home Care Chester PA – 4 Things to Know from the Start When Providing Home Care for a Loved One
Time Away Isn’t an Indulgence
Most family caregivers fall into a trap in which they believe that taking time away from caregiving is selfish or an unnecessary indulgence. The truth of the matter is that you absolutely have to take time away for yourself. No one can be “on” every minute of every day and not experience some serious side effects. Hire home care providers or work out a coverage system with other family members, but find a way to get away.
Exercise Keeps You Sane
Not only does exercise help you to manage your own health issues and get your heart rate up, it also helps to keep your emotions in check. It does that by helping you to work off excess energy, gets your blood flowing to all the muscles in your body including your brain, and it helps you to sleep better. All of that can help you work off frustration.
Find a Hideaway for Yourself
You have to have a spot that is all your own. Having a hideaway of your own allows you to have a spot to which you can retreat for a few minutes or an hour just to recharge. That space might be a special room in your home, a corner of a room or even a special spot in your garden. No matter what your hideaway is, make sure that you have one.
See Your Own Doctor Often
You’re likely completely on top of every single one of your loved one’s doctor’s appointments, but can you remember your last one? If not, it’s past time for you to make an appointment for yourself. Your own health is intrinsically tied to your loved one’s continued well-being because if you’re not paying attention to your own health issues, you can’t be there fully for your loved one.
Taking care of yourself is essential to being able to care for anyone else, but especially when taking care of your elderly loved one.
If you or an aging loved one are considering Home Care Services in Chester PA, please contact the caring staff at True Direct Home Health Care today.
Doc, as he is called by everyone - staff, patients and clients - first experienced home health care and hospice care while as a colleg student at King's College as he cared for his mother every day while she first battled COPD and then lung cancer. It was during this time that he came to understand that caring for a patient was more than just clinical expertise.
"Admittedly, my strongest attribute is my communication skills and the simple fact that I love to help people. Even the smallest thing you can do for someone really can mean so much to them long term. In fact, it could change them forever. That's what providing quality personal home health care should be all about."
In his spare time, he cooks for homeless shelters and children's music and arts events. He also is highly involved in his local youth sports soccer academy as a coach and Board member.
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