Hi Mayre,
Thank you for your contribution this week in our discussion topic concerning the contrast between positive and negative aspects of care giving from the caregivers perspective. In fact, your statement about how even though a caregiver maybe a friend, relative, and or family member, the task of caring for a family is not easy. Providing long-term care for a disabled family member requires that the caregiver be in good health as well. Caregivers often overlook their own health issues while providing health care to a house-bound individual who rely's on the assistance of someone else. According to the video Caregiving: What Can I Do About it; a caregiver must be up to the task, pay attention to themselves and not wore out. In addition, family members who are faced with the difficult decision of providing home health care to a mother or father, must take the necessary steps in making sure that legal documents such as a power-of-attorney and living wills are completed. Also, making sure that finances are in order and insurance documents are current, and in a safe location. Sometimes, just doing the right thing is the most basic and important issues faced with caregivers (Youtubecom, 2015).
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"The Bureau of Labor Statistics has predicted that there will be a 48 percent increase in national demand for home nursing and personal assistants by 2022, even as the current workers continue aging out of their jobs (Inthesetimescom,
(Davidson, F. G.) Due to the nature of dementia being a neuropsychological disorder, those affected by the disease tend to look like they will not require much care, which, in reality, they often require more care than the caregiver originally expected, leading to stress and burnout. Another effect caused by this can be the caregiver blaming themselves by feeling like they are failing to give proper care, which, in reality, can often be very far from the truth. If the caregiver does not receive help from anyone else, the task of watching over the victim becomes a daunting twenty for hour task. Sometimes, the caregiver won’t be allowed quality sleep. Over 66 percent of home caregivers suffer from some form of psychological or physical illness. The most common illness that is resulted from giving care to Alzheimer’s disease is depression. The caregiver needs to monitor their emotional well-being as well as the well-being as the person that they are giving care to. Usually, giving care to those with dementia is actually more stressful than giving care to those with cancer. When the caregiver is a family member and not a professional, the emotional toll is often even greater. It is important for caregivers to remember that they need to take care of themselves first and
Who is going to care for our aging population when they are unable to care for themselves? A Certified Nursing Assistant, also referred to as a CNA will. A CNA has many responsibilities in the healthcare field. CNAs are the primary caregivers to residents in long-term care facilities and hospitals. CNAs help residents perform activities of daily living. A few examples of activities of daily living are feeding, bathing, dressing and toileting. With all the responsibilities CNAs have, their job can be stressful. The night shift for CNAs requires getting patients ready for supper and put to bed. Some people may think this is simple, but it is not. On average a CNA is responsible for twelve residents while toileting every resident, assessing their needs, and watching for the other residents call lights, CNAs need to have every resident to supper by six o’clock. Once all residents are at the table for supper, CNAs must give each resident their trays and then feed them. Once they are done feeding the residents, CNAs start taking residents to bed. While giving bedtime care CNAs toilet the resident, wash the resident, brush their teeth, put pajamas on them, and transfer them into bed. While giving night time care CNAs need to listen for the alarms of fall risk residents, answer call lights, and be patient with the resident they are giving care to. CNAs need to give quality care
A care relationship is special and requires skill, trust and understanding. This essay will elaborate how the quality of that relationship affects the quality of the care given and the experiences felt in receiving care. These different relationships will depend on the type of care given, who the care is given by and what sort of previous existing relationship there was to begin with. For a good care relationship to work it needs to follow the 5 K101 principles of care practice which are 'support people in maximising their potential','support people in having a voice and being heard','respect people's beliefs and preferences','support people's rights to appropriate services' and 'respect people's privacy and right to confidentiality'.(K101,Unit 4,p.183). If all of these needs are met a far exceptional quality of relationship between the carer and care receiver will be achieved.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistic’s Employment Projections 2012-2022 released in January 2014, the Registered Nursing workforce is the top occupation in terms of job growth through 2022. It is expected that the number of employed nurses will grow from 2.71 million in 2012 to 3.24 million in 2022, an increase of 526,800 or 19 percent. Growth will take place for a number of reasons: demand for health care services due to increasing life expectancy; chronic conditions, such as arthritis, dementia, diabetes, and obesity; and the number of individuals who have access to health services.
According to the data collected and shown in chart above for 2014 and 2015 statistics hourly wage for personal care assistants, home health aides, and certified nurse 's aides the increase in hourly wage has not raised that much. The amount provided hourly barely allowed the workers to meet the cost of living requirements set for them. A program to provide better training for home health aides to increase wages and overall care of clients in their home setting. If it could be put into place for a reimbursement or a scholarship program to create a degree that is in between an CNA and an RN that would give workers better education and qualifications to receive more pay per hour and do more in the home setting for client’s then this field could be looked at as more of a stepping stone.
Weeks, S. K (1995). What are the educational needs of prospective Family Caregivers of newly disabled adults? Rehabilitation Nursing, 20(5), 256 – 60, 272.
Primary caregivers are given an opportunity to take care of their loved ones; however, this job comes with a lot of stress and its consequences (Tsai, 2003). Primary caregivers take care of those with a chronic illness such as a family member or friend, are given a task that is so immense that it induces a lot of stress. In the previous decades, many research articles have developed studies which focused on stressors that were associated with the task of being the primary caregiver; yet, a theory surrounding this topic has not been developed until the early 2000s. Tsai (2003) developed the Theory of Caregiver Stress based on the Roy Adaptation Model to identify the caregiver’s response, perceptions, and adaptations to the stress and burden that primary caregiver’s experience.
Experts predict the field will increase by roughly 70 percent by 2020. Though it is a good profession, the home healthcare workforce does face several major challenges, and it is important that home healthcare workers
The most compelling thing I learned about the caregivers experience is that she possessed inner strengths that help to get her through this difficult situation. The caregiver was very caring, persistent, loving, and loyal to her dying mother even though it was very difficult situation to deal with. The caregiver express her loving and caring nature by feeding, bathing, and quitting school to take care of her ailing mother. The caregiver was also persistent by constantly working to help assist her mother needs daily until death. The caregiver also expressed her loyalty to her mother by being there for her when many of the other family
Caregiving is an essential and very necessary aspect of the medical field. However, caregiving is also one of the most strenuous and stressful positions that exists. The patients require constant supervision, precise care and an extremely high level of patience, tolerance and skill. Eventually, this type of care begins to take a physical, emotional and financial toll on the caregiver. Because of the adverse effects of this profession, the Theory of Caregiver Stress was developed to aid those working in this difficult profession.
Canada’s Live-In Caregiver Program offers foreign caregivers the opportunity to work and live in Canada. The program’s intent is to encourage immigration while simultaneously addressing caregiver shortages. However, working and live-in conditions are not ideal. The majority of people applying for the LCP are women of color, who come from lower income/source countries, like the Philippines. These women are often marginalized because of their vulnerable status. Despite providing employment opportunities, the LCP is an inherently discriminatory immigration policy that threatens the status and wellbeing of migrant women, working as domestics in Canada.
One-third of the current nursing workforce will reach retirement age in the next 10 to 15 years.
Often times in today’s society we see family members' relying on other family members to care for their needs. In this paper I am going to object that care providers cannot be the only one to provide care for one individual, the family members must be involved as well. I will be objecting to this argument by stating that one premise is invalid. That being said, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, or even hospitals are unable to provide the quality and compassionate care to a resident or patient that he or she needs.
...ww.caregiver.org; some issues that could arise for Sam could be frustration which comes out him trying to change a situation that is uncontrollable. An article on www.helpguide.org states that issues can be emotional. Having to watch memories deplete and function skills deteriorate can take an emotional toll on the caregiver given that the person being cared for is a loved one. In my opinion care giving can be stressful because some patients require 24 hours of care giving. This could consume the entire life of the caregiver not giving them any time for themselves or their families. I believe that there must be a balance and a counting of the cost when doing this job. A caregiver should carefully map out how they would engage themselves in their role as a caregiver as well as how they will still be able to function outside of this role in their own personal lives.
Zendjidjian et al. (2014) found that amongst other determinants, stronger patient satisfactions were firmly established when therapeutic communication (TC) was ingrained into the day to day patient care routine. The authors concluded that therapeutic relationship (TR) was the most important feature associated with a patient’s satisfaction and it is viewed as an important indicator of the quality of care received in a psychiatric setting. Providers and healthcare workers need to do a self-assessment of their communication skills in other to improve in therapeutic communication with their patients. According to Kameg, Mitchell, Chlochesy, Howard and Suresky (2009), psychiatric