Caring for an elderly loved one with multiple health issues or a complex medical condition can feel overwhelming. While you may handle tasks like helping around the home, providing transportation, and assisting with meals, managing her medication, tracking numerous appointments, and finding the right resources can be incredibly stressful.
This is where care management services can make a significant difference. Care management experts provide the support family caregivers need to ensure their loved one receives the best possible care, helping to reduce stress and prevent important care needs from being overlooked.
Common Caregiver Stress Points
Each person is different and may find certain aspects of caregiving to be the most challenging or uncomfortable to handle. It’s okay not to feel confident or enjoy every aspect of caring for your aging loved one. This is where care management services can help, providing support and guidance to ease the burden and ensure your loved one receives the best possible care.
Some common areas that caregivers often struggle with include:
- Understanding the health condition of their loved one fully and knowing what issues require immediate medical attention and which can be managed at home.
- Managing multiple prescriptions for their loved one.
- Taking care of their loved one’s finances, such as making monthly payments, keeping expenses under control, and managing previously made financial decisions.
- Providing personal care needs. You might feel uncomfortable helping with bathing, or your loved one may not want someone they love helping them with their bathroom needs.
- Finding resources that can help or trying to negotiate insurance coverage.
Caregiver Burnout Symptoms
Are you feeling any of these symptoms? You might be heading toward caregiver burnout.
- Feeling out of control or powerless.
- Consistently getting ill or coming down with something.
- Inability to sleep at night.
- Feeling depressed or anxious.
- Withdrawing from some of your favorite activities.
- An inability to concentrate and make decisions.
- Having less patience not only with your loved one but with everyone you come in contact with.
- Neglecting your health needs or personal care.
- Feeling exhausted and having no energy to expend on anything other than caring for your elderly loved one.
Care Management Teams Can Help Caregivers Focus on What They Do Best – Care
If you find yourself providing care for a loved one, and especially if you don’t have other family to assist you on this journey, you might quickly become overwhelmed and begin to burn out, putting yourself and your loved one in harm’s way. If you stop caring for yourself while providing care for someone else, you won’t be able to provide the care they need, so it’s important to find resources that can support you as you care for your loved one.
A care management team can step in and help pick up the pieces of many of those areas of caregiving that you are not comfortable with.
A care management provider is trained to understand the terms and language that you need to know to successfully navigate areas such as insurance coverage, health services, and medication side effects. They will walk you through those areas that are overwhelming and make them easier to understand while providing resources to help you find the best solutions for your loved one.
If you or an aging loved one is considering Care Management in Beacon Falls, CT, please contact the caring staff at Talem Home Care & Placement Services of New Haven, CT, today. Call (203) 538-6273
At Talem Home Care & Placement Services of Fort Hartford CT, we provide passionate, understanding, and flexible caregivers in New Haven, Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Bethany, Cheshire, Derby, Milford, Naugatuck, Orange, Prospect, Seymour, Shelton, Stratford, Trumbull, West Haven, Woodbridge, and Woodmont and surrounding areas in Connecticut.
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