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The Caregiver's Manual by Sangeeta S.Bhagwat

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Delegate

The initial protective instincts for a loved one, may prompt you into trying to do everything yourself. If assistance is offered, do not hesitate to accept it. This will help you conserve energy, as also give yourself and your patient, a change.

Most things, you will have to do yourself. But help can always be taken for housekeeping, grocery and medicine shopping, baby-sitting, dog walking, driving, etc.. At least the burden of ordinary chores can be relieved.

Many of the people surrounding you may want to help and cannot imagine how to do this. Tell them yourself. Pride and ego have no place in such situations.

If it becomes necessary and you can afford it, consider day care facilities or nursing assistance at home. Choose pragmatic options over emotional ones. Help of this kind will allow you to enhance your productivity and income. This can provide change as well as financial relief.


Keep Trying New Support Options

Finding the energy, inclination and initiative to try something new, may feel next to impossible, on most days.

There are countless safe alternative therapies. For most of us, there is much to be learned about different coping skills, psychological tools, new mindsets, deeper and clearer understanding of faith, religion or spirituality.

When one is struggling to achieve even a minimal quality of life, the idea of diverting resources towards such ambiguous activities, is very likely to seem impractical, if not wasteful.

However, any one of these may prove to be your lifeline.

Do not underestimate the strength and support waiting to be derived from such means. The learning process in itself, instills hope. It diverts your attention away from worries and fears. Actively attempting to improve the situation, lessens the sense of helplessness and takes away the notion of being the powerless victims.

It is easier to accept what one cannot change, provided you are confident, that you have exhausted every means possible, to try and change it.



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