Issues of care-giving by physicions. Education in med schools nowadays lacks emphasis on how to take care of a patient during terminal phases of illness. How human suffering is aliviated by doctors and healers.
Although seperated by death, we are united in love and throughout it all, the love remains. The questions are never erased but then neither are the memories. Such is the cycle of life.
It is common for both the impaired person and the caregiver to experience feelings of loss, grieving, denial, anger, guilt, physical symptoms and eventually acceptance.
The loss of a pet involves the same grief process as when we lose a human loved one. The author’s experience of life, caregiving, and loss of her treasured pet, Magi.
Empowering Caregivers has developed a series of articles for Grandparents acting as caretivers, to keep you abreast of important information, along with suggested books and resources.
In 1998, 3.9 million children younger than 18 lived in households headed by their grandparents, an 80 percent increase since 1970. A brief discussion of some of the issues surrounding Grandparenting/Child/Grandchild roles.
Research shows that Americans are more likely to talk to their children about safe sex and drugs then to their terminally ill parents about choices in care as they near life’s final stages.
Many medications being made available today have been approved after undergoing relatively short research trials. The importance of checking, double checking, and doing your research on your meds cannot be emphasized enough.
Discussion of self-transformation during caring for the loved one and after the loved one is lost. Open your heart and enter a peaceable place ready to face your suffering and accept love.
Caregivers may have been trained how to give an injection, but they have no one to help them deal with the strain of the illness itself. Most people don’t have a clue they’re burned out until they’re in crisis.
Through her experience with her beloved pet, Magi, the author learned lessons in trust and faith in addition to some alternative medicine treatments for both animals and humans.
Care provided by family and friends cuts $200 billion off the nation’s healthcare bill each year, according to a report. The American public “needs to find an effective means for supporting and sustaining [caregivers].”
