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Guilt and the family caregiver

Sharon Brothers MSW

When my kids were little, they'd get sick and I'd start stressing. Should I take them to the doctor? Should I let the bug run its course?

Either option seemed to generate a bucket full of guilt. If I called in to the advice nurse the advice was - without fail - bring them in. I'd get to the doctor, and hear what sounded to my ears something like, "Don't worry so much. All kids get bugs from time to time. Don't be such an anxious mom." The doctor would give me the "lots-of-rest-and-plenty-of-fluids" advice, and I'd be home thinking about the time I'd wasted and the expense of taking a kid to the doctor - again - who didn't really need to go.

So the next time a kid got sick I'd say, "We're going to just let this bug run its course. We'll get plenty of rest and lots of fluids. I'm sure in a day or two she'll be fine."

A day or two later, the bug is no better so I finally take the child to the doctor. This time I hear, "Oh my god. Why on earth did you wait so long to bring the child in? She could have died!"

No matter which choice I made, I felt profound anxiety and guilt.

Caring for our aged parents seems to be much of the same: equal parts anxiety and guilt, no matter what we do.

As I read about Brooke Shields' response to reporters finding out about her mom's move into an assisted living community I thought about guilt.

It's easy to let guilt guide our decision-making. It's easy - but not wise. Just like my parenting guilt could have led me to take the kids to the doctor with each sniffle and sneeze, I learned to accept that either decision would most likely result in guilt. And then I made the decision that seemed, based on the facts as I knew then, to be the most appropriate.

With our aging parents we need to make decisions based on facts, too. We need to set feelings of guilt aside and ask ourselves - and our loved ones - what best meets their needs.

When my mom needed 4 people to help her to the bathroom, I had no option. I felt guilty about helping her into a nursing home, but I would have felt guiltier - and been a less responsible daughter - if I would have brought her to my home and then left her with no one to help while I attended to my own work and family needs.

While we're not parenting our parents, we are making choices and decisions, often without their input, on matters that affect nearly every aspect of their lives.

Try these questions to help you check whether you're making decisions based on fact - or on emotions like guilt:

Who can help? If your parent moves into a care community, someone will always be available to help. Often, more than one person will be available. Usually someone will be awake and ready to help even during the night. In a good care community, those helpers are trained and supervised by experienced caregivers. If you choose to leave your parent at home - yours or theirs - can they get the same level of attention and care?

What's my role? Often I hear from family caregivers that are exhausted from nighttime demands, or from caring for their own family, doing their own work, and then trying to do the tasks their loved one needs. Sit down and chat? Go through an old family photo album together? Who has time for that?! If your caregiving tasks demand all the energy you have available, who can provide the companionship and company to your loved one?

Is there joy? I'm a profound believer in finding joy in caregiving. Yes, a lot of the care we provide to loved ones - whether 2 or 102 - not a lot of fun, but is necessary. At the same time, we find ways when we're bathing the baby to laugh, make bubbles and sing together. What about when we're caring for an elderly loved one? Is there joy being shared? Laughter? Find a way to discover the joy in the relationship, or get help with the tasks so you can find new ways to a joyful relationship.

Caregiving, like parenting, will naturally have moments of guilt, anxiety and despair. But if we're caring because we're family, caregiving can also be filled with deep satisfaction and joy.

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New York Times Examines Role of Children as Caregivers

Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report

Coverage & Access | New York Times Examines Role of Children as Caregivers
[Feb 24, 2009]
The New York Times on Monday examined the increased number of U.S. children "providing care for sick parents or grandparents," and how schools, social service agencies and health care providers often are "unaware of those responsibilities because family members may be too embarrassed, or stoic." According to a 2005 survey, about 3% of households with children ages eight to 18 include children who serve as caregivers.

"Experts say they expect the numbers to.......read the whole report

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Dealing with dementia

Standard.net
By BECKY WRIGHT
Standard-Examiner staff
bwright@standard.net

Telling the truth may not be as important as giving comfort to loved one

When Judy Butler's mother-in-law asked if her husband was dead, Butler did what she felt she had to do.

"I would lie to her, straight out. I'd look her in the face and lie," said the Layton woman.

Butler's father-in-law has been dead for about 23 years, but for the past three years, her mother-in-law hasn't been able to remember.

It's one of the many ways dementia victims can lose touch with reality. Forgetting names and faces, seeing people and things that aren't there, and mentally traveling back in time are common.

When a loved one loses touch with reality, it leaves family members wondering how best to handle the situation.

"I really struggled with what thing works best. ... Was it more comforting for me to play along, or struggle to bring her to reality?" said Nikki Lovell of Ogden, whose mother sometimes suffered from hallucinations in her final years.

Lovell tried sticking with reality, and that was fine with her mom. "She'd say, 'I know you can't see these fairies, but they're really beautiful,' " Lovell recalled.

It was different with her mother-in-law.

"My mother-in-law saw people on the mountains, and would drag me to the window to look," she said. "If I said, 'I can't see any,' she'd get so angry with me -- like I was trying to sabotage her and make her feel crazy."

After a few experiences, Lovell began questioning whether she needed to tell her mother-in-law the truth.

"The people who played along with her made her life easier," she said.......read the whole article

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Living with dementia means having a game plan to manage the disease

The Daily Gleaner

By CHERYL CLOCK
The Canadian Press
CATHARINES, Ont. - Taped to her living room wall are words that give her strength. Words that give her hope.
A woman from the Alzheimer Society of Niagara Region gave her these words.

And Margaret Ball, a 58-year-old grandmother, reads them every day.

"Worry looks around, Sorry looks back, Faith looks up."

"I believe God only gives you what you can handle," she said from her home in Beamsville, Ont. "God gave it to me. He must know I can handle it."

For the most part, Ball is positive. Strong. She's in the earliest stages of dementia and has resolved to live her life to the best of her ability.

She laughs (even at herself and some challenges she encounters with her short-term memory). She contributes. Appreciates. And still feels a sense of purpose.

She wants people to know that life doesn't end with a diagnosis of dementia. That it goes on. And there can still be joy.

At first, it wasn't obvious. Sometimes she repeated herself. Other times she just seemed a little absent-minded. But isn't everyone?

Then something happened that no one could reason away.

Kevin Sharpen, her 35-year-old son who lives in Hamilton, tells the story. Although it happened just a few years ago, his mother remembers nothing.

Ball was driving a bus, on her way back to the daycare where she worked in Burlington, Ont. It was the morning. She had just dropped off the last of the children at school. Sharpen was at home when she called, crying and panicked.

"Kevin," she sobbed, "I don't know where I am."

"What do you mean?" said Sharpen.

His mother was in the bus. Lost, somewhere along the route she had travelled for years. Sharpen called her boss. Somehow they found her.

Doctors checked her out but didn't have any answers. She was fine for a while. Then, while at the daycare, Ball passed out. Twice.

Again she was checked over. Again, no obvious problem.

Then, in the period of a month, she was in two accidents. In one, she was driving in downtown Hamilton, got disoriented, drove into oncoming traffic and hit a sign post.

Still, doctors had no answers.

The final straw came the day she passed out while doing laundry in her apartment building.

This time, doctors found something. A condition in which her heart stops beating momentarily, for a fraction of a second. And dementia. Likely.......read the whole article

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Food Assistance Becomes a SNAP!

Alzheimer's and Dementia Weekly
You as a caregiver may be interested in this program
Washington, DC - As the worsening economy puts increasing pressure on older Americans with limited income and resources, the need for assistance to buy food is escalating.

To assist people who need help paying for food, the National Council on Aging has enhanced BenefitsCheckUp with a new Web-based service that provides easy access to information about the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, the new name for the federal Food Stamp Program), in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia.

"Unfortunately, with states facing deficits and cutting human services programs...read the whole article

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Paying for Alzheimer's and dementia care

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by Brian Willie
Brian explains how families can pay for the extraordinarily high cost of Alzheimer’s care
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Happy New Year to all caregivers

Are you a caregiver?

I would like to wish you the best for the year to come.

There have been a lot of advances in Alzheimer's and dementia treatment
I hope that will bring improvement to your loved one.

Just as you enjoyed Thanksgiving with your loved one, click here to read the beginning of these posts

Also read this article calling for all to honor caregivers

Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks and keep up the good work

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Caregivers get no holiday, though friends, family help

USA Today
By Mary Brophy Marcus, USA TODAY
Something about Carol Blackwell is reminiscent of the main character from this year's film Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. Not because she solves her and everyone else's relationship problems in 24 hours. But like Miss Guinevere Pettigrew, Carol focuses intently on the present and in subtle, loving ways makes everyone around her feel all right at the end of the day.
Carol's husband, Bob, 66, a retired CIA executive, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease two years ago. After the initial shock, Carol says, she had no other choice than to keep a firm grip on reality. That meant pursuing health solutions for Bob and keeping family happiness and security thriving.


IN DEPTH: Video, plus what you need to know about Alzheimer's
BETTER LIFE: No carbs, no memory?
BLACKWELL'S BLOG: Personal account of living with the early stages of Alzheimer's

That doesn't mean it always has been...read the whole article

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How to Find the Best, Most Trustworthy Caregivers

This would apply to loved ones with dementia
Aging Parents Authority
Blog article: How to Find the Best, Most Trustworthy Caregivers
By admin

You’re worried sick because you can’t find a good caregiver for your aging parent.

You want to keep your parent home and out of a nursing home as long as possible but your parent needs 24 hour care and you’ve got a job and a family. To make matters worse, you live out of state.

You’ve searched and searched for good caregivers but you’ve only interviewed people that you don’t really trust and you wouldn’t leave with your helpless parent.

What can you do?.......Read the whole article

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Alzheimer's, related dementias, and the holidays

About Dementia
Holidays: Just the facts
For most families, holidays are filled with opportunities for togetherness, sharing laughter and memories. But holidays can also be filled with stress, disappointment and sadness.

Because of the changes he or she has experienced, the person with Alzheimer's or a related dementia, may feel a special sense of loss and time passing during holiday season. At the same time, caregivers may feel overwhelmed in their effort to maintain holiday traditions on top of caring for the person with this disease. In addition, caregivers may feel hesitant to invite other family and friends over to share the holiday, for fear they will react negatively to the changed behavior of the family member.

If you are feeling guilty, angry, frustrated, or trapped before, during or after holiday celebrations, it may help to know that these feelings.....read the whole article

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Caregiver Tips For Getting Through the Day

Ezine
By Rebecca Sharp Colmer

The duties of the caregiver usually change and increase over a period of time. One of the most difficult aspects of the caregiver role is that the job continues seven days a week, 24 hours a day.

One way to help caregivers get through the day is to set up a care plan and develop a routine.

The caregiver's care plan is very similar to the nurse's plan of care and the hospice plan of care. It is a daily record of the care and treatment of the care-receiver.

It provides a record of events that assist everyone on the care team. It also allows another caregiver to take your place fairly easily. With a written plan you don't have to rely on your memory.

A daily record will help both the caregiver and the care-receiver, and everyone on the care team. For any care plan to work, the care-receiver should be included in every possible aspect of the planning process. This may be difficultif the are receiver has Alzheimer's diseasor another dementia.

Then observation and a loosely stuctured routine might work best

To get started the family must determine who is going to be the primary caregiver. This person will have the main responsibility for the actual care.

Establishing a well-thought out care plan will help relieve stress for everyone involved. Many decisions will have to be made.

An evaluation of needs and activities can be done to assess and determine a baseline which will help determine the caregiver's duties.

These may include....read the whole article

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Have you ever said this?“I Love My Mother, But I Don’t Like Her”

Aging Care
by Jacqueline Marcell
Recently a caregiver named Karen told me she felt obligated to care for her cranky elderly mother (whom she loved but never really liked), because she suspected mild dementia and worried about leaving her alone. I told her how important it is to have her mother evaluated by a dementia specialist immediately because with early diagnosis and treatment the dementia can be masked/slowed down in most people.

By keeping her mom in the early and more cognitively aware stage longer, Karen’s caregiving journey will be much less stressful than if she waits and the dementia and behaviors get worse. And since many people with dementia are greatly helped with an anti-depressant, and bad moods are often smoothed out....read the whole story

Elderly Care - How to Recognize a Good Carer

Ezine
By Simona Rusnakova

Smiling? Helpful? Good looking? Nice and tidy? So what should a good carer be like?

Normally you get to meet them just once before you say: "Yes, we want to go ahead with this company, we would like this carer to look after our parents."

Then what is the best methodology to assess care givers so that you really get the best person who will look after your loved ones really well? How to spot whether there's that nice match of personalities between the two, which makes sure that they will understand each other?

Generally, there are three main criteria:

1. Passion & Love

Does the carer have the passion for his work? Will they be able to .......read the whole article

Podcast: Caregiving tips for Alzheimer's disease and relaied dementias

MayoClinic,com
Medical expert: Glen Smith, Ph.D.Total time: 0:10:51 minutes

beginning of transcript
Welcome to Mayo Clinic podcast. Our topic today is tips about caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease. I'm your host, Rich Dietman.
In today's podcast we're talking about some things that you can do to be a more effective caregiver for someone with Alzheimer's disease. My guest is Dr. Glenn Smith. Dr. Smith is a Mayo Clinic neuropsychologist who specializes in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. He's also a consultant in the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at Mayo and a professor of psychology at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. Dr. Smith, thanks for joining us.
....podcast

Win $2,000 of Free Housecleaning if you are an Alzheimer's or dementia caregiver

AgingCare.com
Editor
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So we’re holding a contest. The prize? $2,000 of free housecleaning! Just share your caregiving story for a chance to win. It could be a sweet moment you’ve shared with your loved one, some upbeat wisdom that might help others, or a funny story that takes the edge off.
Here’s your chance to take some of the burden off of your caregiving duties. The contest winner can use their Merry Maids gift card for housecleaning at their own home, their parents’ house…whatever they choose.
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The use of "therapuetic fibs" and dementia

Alzheimer's Weekly
Secrets from a Caregiver's Support Group

ENCINITAS, CALIFORNIA --

Sometimes there is great comfort in sharing a simple, little story. Especially when both the teller and the listener are caring for a parent with Alzheimer's disease.

"Before my mom had a stroke, she did a lot of hallucinating," Carlsbad resident Lynne Smith, 55, told a support group for adult children of an Alzheimer's patients at the Glenner Center in Encinitas last week. "She'd call me at 6 in the morning to tell me that her mom and sister had come by for a visit, but that they had left when she had gone to the bathroom."

But what really worried her mother, Smith said......read the whole post

Computerized carer lessens dementia load

Eureka Alert
Alex Mihailidis, Jennifer N Boger, Tammy Craig and Jesse Hoey
BMC Geriatrics
An artificial intelligence coaching system has been developed that will help carers of older adults with moderate dementia. The COACH system (Cognitive Orthosis for Assisting aCtivities in the Home), described in the open access journal BMC Geriatrics, uses a camera and computer to deliver interactive advice - lessening the workload on often-overburdened carers.

Alex Mihailidis led a team of researchers from the University of Toronto, Canada, who tested the COACH's ability to help a group of six older adults with dementia remember how to wash their hands. Mihailidis said, "COACH employs various computer vision and artificial intelligence techniques to autonomously provide the user with verbal and/or visual reminders as necessary during their activities of daily living".

When COACH was used, the participants with moderate dementia showed......read the whole story