After identifying your family member’s needs, it’s time to adapt your living space and lifestyle as needed to accommodate any necessary changes to meet your family member’s physical or mental needs. In some cases, living quarters require no significant changes. In other circumstances, a home needs major renovations to accommodate a wheelchair or walker for someone who can no longer walk. When developing a plan, the caregiver looks at the needs of all affected parties, determines priorities, and decides what to do when.
Developing a Plan of Care After completing a health assessment, you have a baseline for your family member and a starting place for developing a plan of care. A comparison with the baseline can show an improvement or decline in their state of health. Initially, compare their baseline to the normal for their age, […]
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What happens if the primary caregiver is unavailable to provide care? Many caregivers have medical problems they neglect or develop over years of providing care to family members. Eventually, however, everyone becomes sick, and try as they might, they cannot come to work. The same is true of caregivers,
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