Carers- survival techniques
One hesitates to discuss any help for carers after reading the pages of sources of help available to them, plus the chilling mental problems which may affect them.
But, if we don’t ask questions, we won’t make progress. Are the support people actual carers or just information givers?
You don’t need carers if there are no stroke people. Are there any such S.A.P.S available?
It is insulting for a person without carer experience to start advice to a carer with “I know how you feel”, which makes carer to carer the most helpful.
Our old stroke person arrives home. His life and that of his wife carer will never be the same. They both have to adapt, and quickly. There is no education for that. However lots of difficulties can be avoided if some daily tasks are made routine, the same every day.
S.A.P don’t change your shower days and don’t expect your wife to change her grocery shopping day, and so on. It’s amazing what we can put up with if it’s made routine.
COMMENT I can detect many hints of the rise of carer help industry from what is now available.
Angus