Home Health Care Providers Can Help with Caregiver Burnout
As a family caregiver, there may come a time when you get burnt out. If you aren’t sure when this is happening, it might first be helpful to be able to recognize the signs of burnout. Some of the things that may happen including being stressed out, yelling at your elderly loved one, and slacking on other responsibilities you have. If you start experiencing signs of caregiver burnout, home health care providers can step in to help your elderly loved one. This can be temporary or permanent. It depends on the needs of you and your elderly loved one. Keep reading here to find out just how home health care providers can help with caregiver burnout.
Helping with Transportation
Home Health Care Drexel Hill, PA: Caregiver Burnout and Seniors
Are you feeling overwhelmed because you have to keep driving your elderly loved one to appointments, family member’s homes, and other places? If this is the case, you don’t have to keep doing all the transportation on your own. Home health care providers can step in and handle some or all of the transportation for your elderly loved one. This can leave you with more free time to do other tasks that you need to do or to just take a break.
Handling Meals
Another way that home health care providers can help with caregiver burnout is to handle more meals for your elderly loved one. If you are feeling drained because you have to go grocery shopping, take care of groceries, prepare meals, and even cook for your elderly loved one, you aren’t alone. This can be very tiring and home health care providers are here to help. These providers can take over some or all of these tasks.
Helping with Bathing
Do you have back pain or other health issues because of the intense tasks you are helping your elderly loved one with? Maybe you have been helping with bathing and the constant bending over and helping your elderly loved one out of the bath hurts your back. If this is the case, the home health care providers can take over. This way, you aren’t doing tasks that are causing you more pain.
Conclusion
As a family caregiver, there might be things you are doing that just cause you to get overwhelmed. The important thing to remember is that you don’t have to do all the tasks for your elderly loved one on your own. You can hire home health care providers to assist you with some or all of these tasks.
If you or an aging loved one are considering Home Health Care in Drexel Hill, PA please contact the caring staff at True Direct Home Health Care today.
Sources
https://www.womenshealth.gov/a-z-topics/caregiver-stress
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/stress-management/in-depth/caregiver-stress/art-20044784
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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