Are You Still Unconvinced that Respite Care Is Necessary?

Respite care is incredibly useful as a care-giving tool, but so many caregivers are surprisingly reluctant to make use of it. If that describes the situation you’re in, these tips might finally convince you otherwise.

Home Care Services in Alexandria VA: Is Respite Care Necessary?

Breaks Now Keep You from Breaking Later

When you keep going and pressing your boundaries as a caregiver, you take on more and more stress. If you don’t find ways to manage that stress, you’re eventually going to break yourself down due to the strain. One of the easiest ways to avoid that problem is to take breaks. How often you need to take breaks can vary. Giving yourself time for you every day as well as every week can be just the ticket.

Saying You’re Too Busy Is a Problem

If your first response when someone brings up respite time is that you’re too busy to figure out how to take respite time, that’s a red flag. Being too busy to find the right person to step in for you when you take time away is also a huge problem. These are all signs that you’re far more stressed than you realize.

Respite Works for Your Senior, Too

One argument against respite time from caregivers can be that it messes with routines that work well for their aging adults. The problem with that is if you’re managing respite care properly, it becomes another cog in a solid routine for your elderly family member. Your elderly family member needs to be able to spend time around other people, too.

Look at All Your Options

You might think that you don’t have any options when it comes to respite time as a caregiver, but you probably have more than you think. Hiring home care providers leaves your aging adult in capable, experienced hands. If other family members are willing and able to pitch in, they learn more about what your days are like and they’re able to spend quality time with your aging adult. Some agencies that assist the elderly also have respite care resources.

Once you start giving respite a real try, you’ll start to see why putting it off was a bad idea.

Are you or a loved-one considering hiring home care services in Alexandria, VA?  Please call the caring staff at Medical Professionals On Call today.
Contact: 703-273-8818

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Michelle DeFilippis

I graduated with a BS degree and had been selling medical equipment to hospitals, clinics and technicians. More recently, a family member was diagnosed with dementia and we, as a family, realized we were not prepared t care for her. We were thrown into that whirlpool of hospital stays, 24/7 live-in care, skilled care, caring for mom ourselves and finally, now daily home care. This was such a stressful time that I started thinking there had to be other people, other families as overwhelmed and unprepared as we were.

Medical Professionals On Call has such a caring, professional staff who are available to step in with whatever level of care necessary for loved ones and to relieve you of that stress.

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