Download or read book Emotional Side Of Caregiving written by Sheridan Magid and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-03 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've been a caregiver for a long time, you know just how hard it can be. Perhaps, at first, you were more than willing to take on the job because you knew what it meant to your loved one. Maybe you managed the first few weeks or months or even years with ease, running from work to errands to your loved ones - and back again. You played phone tag with doctors, scheduled treatments, and even played chauffeur. The lack of free time you had to yourself maybe didn't seem like such a big deal in comparison to the good you were doing. But over time, the pressures of caregiving can weigh anyone down. This book is not a self-help book. It's a let-others-help-you book, in which caregivers share their distressing, sometimes overwhelming feelings - and their hard-won self-care skills and wisdom. It's a support group between covers, designed to help readers with the hardest part of the process: dealing with their own emotions. Each chapter takes up one of the emotions that hits a caregiver as the reality of their partner's condition sinks in anger, fear, sorrow, acceptance, renewal, joy.
Download or read book Emotional Side Of Caregiving written by Sachiko Seng and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-08 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've been a caregiver for a long time, you know just how hard it can be. Perhaps, at first, you were more than willing to take on the job because you knew what it meant to your loved one. Maybe you managed the first few weeks or months or even years with ease, running from work to errands to your loved ones - and back again. You played phone tag with doctors, scheduled treatments, and even played chauffeur. The lack of free time you had to yourself maybe didn't seem like such a big deal in comparison to the good you were doing. But over time, the pressures of caregiving can weigh anyone down. This book is not a self-help book. It's a let-others-help-you book, in which caregivers share their distressing, sometimes overwhelming feelings - and their hard-won self-care skills and wisdom. It's a support group between covers, designed to help readers with the hardest part of the process: dealing with their own emotions. Each chapter takes up one of the emotions that hits a caregiver as the reality of their partner's condition sinks in anger, fear, sorrow, acceptance, renewal, joy.
Download or read book Families Caring for an Aging America written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family caregiving affects millions of Americans every day, in all walks of life. At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are caregivers of an older adult with a health or functional limitation. The nation's family caregivers provide the lion's share of long-term care for our older adult population. They are also central to older adults' access to and receipt of health care and community-based social services. Yet the need to recognize and support caregivers is among the least appreciated challenges facing the aging U.S. population. Families Caring for an Aging America examines the prevalence and nature of family caregiving of older adults and the available evidence on the effectiveness of programs, supports, and other interventions designed to support family caregivers. This report also assesses and recommends policies to address the needs of family caregivers and to minimize the barriers that they encounter in trying to meet the needs of older adults.
Download or read book The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers written by Barry J. Jacobs and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2006-03-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caring for a parent whose health is in decline turns the world upside down. The emotional fallout can be devastating, but it doesn't have to be that way. Empathic guidance from an expert who's been there can help. Through an account of two sisters and their ailing mother--interwoven with no-nonsense advice--The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers helps family members navigate tough decisions and make the most of their time together as they care for an aging parent. The author urges readers to be honest about the level of commitment they're able to make and emphasizes the need for clear communication within the family. While acknowledging their guilt, stress, and fatigue, he helps caregivers reaffirm emotional connections worn thin by the routine of daily care. This compassionate book will help families everywhere avoid burnout and preserve bonds during one of life's most difficult passages.
Download or read book Patient Safety and Quality written by Ronda Hughes and published by Department of Health and Human Services. This book was released on 2008 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/
Download or read book STEPPING STONES FOR CAREGIVERS written by Karen Leeman and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2024-08-07 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today there are approximately fifty-three million informal, family caregivers in the United States. Informal, family caregivers have little to no training, yet they serve a vital role functioning as the backbone of the medical industry. While rewarding, caregiving takes a mental and emotional toll on the caregiver. The nature of caregiving combined with career, family, and life obligations often result in caregiver fatigue, loneliness, grief, and depression. Stepping Stones for Caregivers offers a unique perspective for nourishing the soul of the caregiver. The inner being of the caregiver – identity, self-love, self-care, self-worth – is often diminished due to the intense demands of caregiving. Stepping Stones for Caregivers provides ten principles to nourish the caregiver soul. Written from a caregiver to caregivers, these ten principles are impactful, non-timing consuming practices to navigate the mental and emotional trauma associated with caregiving. In Stepping Stones for Caregivers, you will learn how to: • Transform thought patterns • Regain your unique identity • Foster gratitude and self-compassion • Release emotional baggage • Embrace the natural flow of life Stepping Stones for Caregivers amplifies the positive aspects of caregiving while recognizing the inherent, often unrecognized aspects of caregiving. Nourish you soul with the raw, poignant experiences from one caregiver to other caregivers. Providing compassionate hope and understanding, return often to the stepping stones for stability and peace.
Download or read book Caregiver s Reprieve written by Avrene L. Brandt and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical discussion of the emotional challenges of caring for an aged or chronically ill loved one. Combines expert narrative with personal vignettes of four caregivers. Helps readers deal with the reality of tragedy, understand the dramatic changes in life expectations, and accept the validity of their emotional responses. Chapters cover what it means to be a caregiver, physical and cognitive changes in the patient, the impact on one's beliefs and life expectations, developing healthy coping strategies. Appendices offer detailed descriptions of stroke, head injury, tumors, Parkinson's and more.
Download or read book Caring for Yourself While Caring for Your Aging Parents Third Edition written by Claire Berman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-12-27 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For women and men who are involved in caring for aging parents, and for those who see caregiving in their future, this empathetic and practical book offers complete coverage of all the practical issues you are likely to confront, while addressing the emotional stress and particular needs of caregivers. Claire Berman, drawing on her own experiences, the experiences of many other adult children, and interviews with specialists in the geriatric field, discusses the wide range of emotions that can accompany caregiving--Publisher.
Download or read book Already Toast written by Kate Washington and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of one woman’s struggle to care for her seriously ill husband—and a revealing look at the role unpaid family caregivers play in a society that fails to provide them with structural support. Already Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be, how difficult it is to find support, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing emotional labor also keep them in unpaid caregiving roles. When Kate Washington and her husband, Brad, learned that he had cancer, they were a young couple: professionals with ascending careers, parents to two small children. Brad’s diagnosis stripped those identities away: he became a patient and she his caregiver. Brad’s cancer quickly turned aggressive, necessitating a stem-cell transplant that triggered a massive infection, robbing him of his eyesight and nearly of his life. Kate acted as his full-time aide to keep him alive, coordinating his treatments, making doctors’ appointments, calling insurance companies, filling dozens of prescriptions, cleaning commodes, administering IV drugs. She became so burned out that, when she took an online quiz on caregiver self-care, her result cheerily declared: “You’re already toast!” Through it all, she felt profoundly alone, but, as she later learned, she was in fact one of millions: an invisible army of family caregivers working every day in America, their unpaid labor keeping our troubled healthcare system afloat. Because our culture both romanticizes and erases the realities of care work, few caregivers have shared their stories publicly. As the baby-boom generation ages, the number of family caregivers will continue to grow. Readable, relatable, timely, and often raw, Already Toast—with its clear call for paying and supporting family caregivers—is a crucial intervention in that conversation, bringing together personal experience with deep research to give voice to those tasked with the overlooked, vital work of caring for the seriously ill.
Download or read book Passages in Caregiving written by Gail Sheehy and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is enhanced with content such as audio or video, resulting in a large file that may take longer to download than expected. With 15 videos and text focused on strategies one needs to bear the responsibility of caring for someone close to them, the enhanced e-book of Passages In Caregiving takes you by the hand and shows you that you will get through this — and you will do the right things. With empathy and intelligence, backed by formidable research, and interspersed with poignant stories of her experience and that of successful care givers, Passages in Caregiving examines the arc of caregiving from the very first signs of trouble — providing invaluable advice and guidance to help turn a stressful, life-altering situation into a journey that can be safely navigated and from which everyone can benefit.
Download or read book Caring for the Family Caregiver written by Elaine Wittenberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Caring for the Family Caregiver is an extensive practical tool kit for health care providers across the healthcare continuum. Regardless if it is a mother caring for a child with a developmental disability, a wife caring for a husband with a long term chronic illness, or a daughter sitting at the bedside of her father who is enrolled in hospice, family caregivers are the silent "other patient" in the health care drama. Healthcare providers who do not attend to the needs of the caregiver not only inflict interactional suffering, but dilute their treatment by not engaging the caregiver as a partner. In fact, they may unintentionally do harm as the caregiver flounders and thus patient treatment fails. As noted by one dying cancer patient in an educational YouTube video of his cancer journey, "there are two patients not one." If we are to eliminate the interactional suffering experienced by family caregivers, we must train both the caregiver and the health care team for the important interaction and roles that are required for the successful care of the patient. Caregivers lack information, skills, and emotional support for the tireless task they are volunteering for. They need to be taught how to advocate for themselves and their patients and how to best communicate with the health care team. Likewise, health care providers have the skills and knowledge to provide outstanding patient centered care; however, they are not taught the importance of the family caregiver, nor do they always understand that experience or how to help"--
Download or read book Family Caregiving in Chronic Illness written by David E. Biegel and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive analysis of family caregiving for adults who are dependent because of chronic illness. Focusing on five specific diseases - Alzheimer's, cancer, chronic mental illness, heart disease and stroke - the authors present and assess existing research and practice relating to family caregiving.
Download or read book Dementia Home Care written by Tracy Cram Perkins and published by Behler Publications. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The target audience is women between the ages of 42 and 65. They represent the majority of unpaid care givers for loved ones with dementia. Dementia Home Care: How to Prepare Before, During and After will examine taking on the role of care giver and help them make informed decisions about in-home care giving. It will give examples of how to create a safe living space, how to use distraction techniques, and suggest available resources for the care giver. It will emphasize the role of care giver respite and participating in dementia community support to relieve the daily stress of dementia care. Home care giver, Tracy Cram Perkins, will use anecdotes drawn from twelve years of experience. Demetia Home Care will cover aggressive behavior, coping strategies, memory aids, communication aids, and support services. There is a space at the end of each chapter for the reader to record special or humorous moments with their loved ones. And it will address the empty nester experience after the loss of a loved one—to a nursing facility or to death—rarely covered in other books of this genre. This life-lesson of care giving is not meant to destroy us but meant to remind us to take care of ourselves, forgive ourselves, accept ourselves. To know other people trudge up this same hill with us every day. To pay forward kindness in some measure. To know laughter has not abandoned us. At the end, to know some measure of joy. -- Tracy Cram Perkins
Download or read book Cancer and the Family written by Lea Baider and published by . This book was released on 1996-05-27 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the result of many years of clinical research by medical and health care professionals working with cancer patients and their families. It demonstrates the impact of cancer at different stages of a patient's life, and how certain factors influence treatment and management.
Download or read book THE ROLLERCOASTER OF CARE written by Theresa Pollard and Jennifer Sayer and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While supporting and caring for people as they get older you will be on a rollercoaster ride of emotional ups and downs . The experience of caring is unique to each individual and there are many physical and practical demands, but it is the way in which the role challenges your emotions which can be draining and sometimes even damaging. Using the authors own experience, as well as extensive interviews with other carers, this book is intended to offer support to fellow carers of an older person. It shows you that you are not alone in the many ways that you are challenged and there is help available. It will help you to recognise the positives that caring can bring to your life and to develop ways of dealing with the challenges. Directed at those caring for older people going through the normal process of ageing, rather than those caring for people with a long term illness or disability, this book identifies the whole process of caring from the entry phase of the role to moving on after your time as a carer has finished. Each stage has different demands which are highlighted through case examples and practical guidance for coping strategies.
Download or read book Caring and Gender written by Francesca M. Cancian and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are women naturally better caregivers than men? Can paid care in an institutuion be good care? Can voluntary community care replace government welfare? Is the caring family disappearing? What role should government play in supporting or regulating families? Is day care for children as good as home care? Using engaging case studies and research findings, this lively new book from the Gender Lens Series explores these and other questions and controversies, challenging the notion that caregiving is a "natural" pattern and demonstrating how it is thoroughly social. Written in an inviting and readable style, the authors address complex issues about caring, making them accessible to undergraduate students and lay people. The book shows those who will enter diverse caregiving professions how to see their particular occupation as influenced by the larger society and broader social relations of caring. It also shows how beliefs about gender and family shape caregiving, and how caregiving affects gender inequality.
Download or read book Building Better Caregivers written by Kate, Lorig Dr.P.H. and published by Bull Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today more than 40 million people in the U.S. find themselves responsible for caring for a parent, relative, or friend. Building Better Caregivers, developed by the author team of the bestselling Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions, shares the best in caregiving research and the most important lessons learned from thousands of caregivers. With a focus on reducing stress through the use of practical skills and tools, this book will help you manage your caregiving tasks so you can maintain a happy, fulfilling life while also meeting your caregiving obligations.
