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Caregiving 101 - Deferring your Life

Caregiving 101Caregiving… be prepared to Deferred your Life

Making the decision to be the caregiver or “Moving back home” to help your loved one should be a personal decision. Making this choice because you feel that your time with them is limited and time spent with them will be quality time should be thought out, caregiving will put your life on hold.

For other caregivers it's not the Money, it’s the Time.

Care giving is very restricting. One caregiver stated that she had to stop what she was doing every 30 minutes and check on her mother. Relaxing would only come after her mother was in bed. This would only be for 1-2 hours at a time … she would need bathroom assistance 4-5 times a night.

In Novemeber of 2007 Evercare® Study of Family Caregivers – What They Spend, What They Sacrifice

Caregiving 101Findings from a National Survey writes about one such life deferred, “Harry is a 47-year-old man who moved into his mother’s home six years ago to help her when her health took a turn for the worse. He is employed full-time in a demanding job and made the decision to move into his mother’s home because he thought it would be easier to help her if they lived together. Since moving into her home, he has had second thoughts about that decision. She needs a full‑time caregiver when he is not home so he has hired a caregiver to be there when he is at work. He is managing her finances with the goal of making it last as long as possible. This means that he is hesitant to use a paid caregiver for his absences that are related to his social life. In fact, he reports that he has no social life now. Although he is engaged to be married, he has postponed the marriage because both he and his fiancé are caring for aging parents. Together they have a complicated set of responsibilities that take up most of their time. Harry has had stress-related health issues and has put his own life “on hold” in order to care for his mother. His personal expenses for the 30-day period are approximately $400. He is paying the full-time caregiver out of his mother’s funds.”

Emotional Stress Trumps Time and Money

Long-distance caregivers had even higher costs. These caregivers assuming they have no caregiving-related spending for housing payments, home maintenance. But they do have a higher cost, time off work, additional stresses of travel to visit the person they care for and have additional burden of managing the financial nursing home expenses. Neglecting their own personal and medical needs to address their caregiving responsibilities. However, caregiving in addition to the time commitment comes at a significant cost. Caregivers may experience declining health (physical and emotional), financial difficulties and may need to make difficult tradeoffs in terms of employment and other family needs.

Caregiving Is a Labor of Love

Concerns about family and loved ones with care needs and the value of being able to help them should not be underestimated. Relationships and the costs to caregivers come in many forms and leave their own long lasting memories.

Let Private Case Management help make those memories good ones. We help you manage life’s important choices.

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