If you care for an elderly family member, would you consider it a positive or negative experience? Many family caregivers consider their unpaid caregiving work a positive experience, but this work can still have an impact on your mental and physical health. Home care services can relieve the physical and mental health effects of family caregiving. Let’s look at what these effects are and how home care can reduce those effects while improving your loved one’s quality of life.
Why Does Family Caregiving Cause Stress?
Family caregiving causes stress because it’s a chronic stress experience. This type of stress causes long-term physical and mental strain because it is triggered by highly uncontrollable and unpredictable behaviors and experiences. Often, family members take on a caregiver role when an elderly loved one develops a chronic illness or other long-term health problems. Attending to those problems yourself with no professional training can lead to caregiver strain.
What Specific Situations Can Lead to Caregiver Strain?
Caregivers are more likely to experience strain when they provide care for a family member who has dementia or other conditions where they exhibit signs of physical, mental, or emotional distress, according to a recent study. Caregiving for someone with dementia often leads to caregiver strain because people with dementia need a lot of supervision, don’t or can’t express gratitude for what their caregivers are doing, and are more likely to experience depression than people without dementia. Regularly dealing with a loved one in this type of situation can lead to some negative emotional effects of caring for an elderly parent. These effects include experiencing depression and distress as a result of your caregiving.
How Can Home Care Relieve Caregiver Strain?
Home care services reduce caregiver strain by handing the daily tasks performed by family caregivers over to professionals. Home care providers are used to working with people in their later years who need extra help to perform daily tasks. When you employ a home care provider to take care of your loved one, you and your aging parent or other elderly family member can reap the benefits of home care services. For example, you can still visit your loved one and provide help where you can while the home care professionals take care of your family member’s day-to-day tasks, such as bathing, dressing, eating, grooming, and medication reminders. Handing the daily activities off to a professional can reduce the stress you feel as you care for your elderly loved one.
Reach out to AVCC today to find the right long-term care services for your Veteran.
How Does AVCC Help You Access Home Care Services?
AVCC helps Veterans and their family members access VA home care benefits so they can afford home care services and reduce their family caregivers’ workloads. Specifically, we help Veterans apply for and receive the VA Aid and Attendance pension benefit, which they can use for anything they want, including home care services. Specifically, we help Veterans apply for and receive the VA Aid and Attendance pension benefit, which they can use for anything they want, including home care services. Once they receive the Aid and Attendance benefit, we pair Veterans with local home care providers who can meet their daily needs. We do this because we understand that many Veterans want to stay at home, but also need assistance to maintain a good quality of life.
Home care services reduce caregiver strain by handing the daily tasks performed by family caregivers over to professionals. Home care providers are used to working with people in their later years who need extra help to perform daily tasks. When you employ a home care provider to take care of your loved one, you and your aging parent or other elderly family member can reap the benefits of home care services.
Relieve Your Caregiving Stress With AVCC
At AVCC, we understand that you want the best for your aging parent(s), but we also know that sometimes, they may need more care than you can personally give. We also understand that your parent or loved one may want to stay at home, since nursing homes and assisted living facilities aren’t for everyone. When you partner with us, we do everything we can to get your loved one the home care they need.
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