Caregiver Stress
Summary: Caregivers need care, too. In this Family Caregiver Training Video Series, certified senior advisor Mary Alexander, from Home Instead Senior Care, shares valuable information for anyone who is caring for an elderly person – whether that person is a parent, other relative, or a friend. For each topic you’ll learn helpful tips to overcome challenges and be provided with resources to make your family caregiving responsibilities a rewarding and loving experience. The Family Caregiver Training Videos cover topics such as signs that care is needed, discussing difficult topics with your aging parent, how to communicate with healthcare providers, helping your parents with their finances, managing long-distance caregiving, how to know if an in-home care provider can help, protecting your older loved one’s safety and rights, and other issues that are importantnt to those caring for an aging parent, grandparent, or friend. Each brief video presents a wealth of useful information in straightforward, easy-to-understand language.
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Podcasts:
The eight most common financial scams against seniors.
Kinds of senior financial scams and how to identify them.
Understanding causes & characteristics of senior fraud can help prevent your senior from becoming a victim of these crimes.
Mary Alexander from Home Instead Senior Care® discusses scams and fraud, and how to help your senior loved one from becoming a victim.
A loss of self care can result in both physical and emotional stress.
This video discusses how to keep your loved one safe.
Alzheimer's disease and other dementias affect the way seniors think and feel and subsequently how they behave.
Research tells us that by keeping our loved one engaged through physical, mental and social activities, we can create positive experiences that diminish this distress and deter unwanted behaviors.
How to use your loved one's memories to provide comfort in the present.
How families can care for their loved ones who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or other dementia.
How transitional care can help provide ongoing management of a loved one's health after a return home from the hospital or rehab facility.
What to do in the first 30 days of your loved one leaving the hospital or rehab facility and how transitional care can help.
How important the first hours at home are to your loved one when going home from the hospital or rehab facility and how transitional care can help.
How to get ready for the return home of a loved one from a hospital or rehab facility and how using transitional care services can help.
Mary Alexander of Home Instead Senior Care discusses the importance of preparing for a loved one's return home from the hospital or rehab facility.
