In Home Care: Balancing a Loved One's Needs With Your Own When you're a caregiver, finding time to take care of your own health can be challenging — but doing so will help both you and your loved one. By Krisha McCoy, MS Do you provide assistance for an older person who needs care? People of all ages can be caregivers, but it is very common for older people to become caregivers to their spouses or other loved ones, and – too often – they begin to neglect their own health at an age when they should really be paying more attention to it. Caregiving is both mentally and physically stressful, and caregivers are considered to be at increased risk for physical health problems and depression. If you are a…
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Taking a Vacation from Caregiving – Part 1: How to Know When we Need a Break by Carol Bradley Bursack, Editor-in-Chief Caregivers can get so caught up in daily tasks and obligations that they don’t even notice that the ongoing stress of caregiving may be causing them physical and emotional problems. How do caregivers stay tuned in to their bodies, minds and spirits, so they know when we need a break? Often a short vacation from the responsibilities of caregiving can be helpful to both the caregiver and the care receiver. Whether you are giving care to your elder in their home, your home or have some other arrangement, caregiving is a full-time job. Even when you aren’t giving direct care, running errands or slogging through health insurance red tape,…
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The most stressful problem facing caregivers of stroke patients comes from friends and family who criticize, ignore or don’t help, U.S. researchers find.
Northwestern Medicine researchers say the lack of understanding and help from friends and relatives causes the most stress and the greatest threat to a caregiver’s own health and well-being.
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