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In India
families are the primary caregivers for the elderly. As long as
the elderly are self reliant physically and financially there are
no major problems. Once they become dependent the family members
need to find time to provide physical assistance and allocate their
resources for the need of the elderly. The meeting the needs of
the elderly adversly affects the emotions of carer and the elderly,
if they do not have a loving relationship or basic committment to
care.
Even with basic love and committment
to care, caregivers experience physical, emotional and financial
problems. If the carers are employed though they may like to help
the elderly they may be left with little physical energy at the
end of the day. So there needs to be a good understanding between
the elderly and the family in terms of actual physical assistance
to be provided. In an attempt to be helpful the caregiver can overenthusistically
provide beyond the assistance required, thereby reducing the elderly
person's ability to perform. This may be done unintentionally as
it is easier to make them do an acitivity with assistance faster
than to let the elderly do on their own.
Try to assess
1. What care need to be provided?
2. What the elderly person is capable of doing?
3. What household work the carer has to do?
4. How the carer relaxes?
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Please relieve the carer for few hours everyday so as to look
into her interests. SHARE, the responsibility of caring among
family members. Do not HOIST on the closest relative of Daughtor-in-law. |
5. Does the caregiver have any physical
problem and is she attending to it.
As
far as possible avoid quarrelling and screaming at home. Try
to develop softer ways of settling disputes and conflicts.
Stop
Finding Fault
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