Supporting Elders Living at Home: How to Become a Better Caregiver
Supporting elders living at home through care partnerships, rather than caregiving, empowers us to honor both autonomy and connectedness.
Supporting elders living at home through care partnerships, rather than caregiving, empowers us to honor both autonomy and connectedness.
It is easy, when visiting a congregate care setting, to see the place through the lens of services, layout, the quality of the furnishings, the color of the walls, etc. How might your perspective, and what you see, change if you looked through the lens of well-being? Kristi used a well-being perspective when visiting some Certified Members in Nova Scotia. This is what she learned.
We have all heard the stories of people that have needed intense medical support to deal with a trauma in their life. We’ve heard both the good and bad from that experience. However, if mindsets are shifted then care can be seen through a different lens. If care systems redesigned, people can genuinely receive the type of support they most need. These types of experiences can shift to stories of healing, comfort, and well-being.
The system and the language that we have inherited seem to be in opposition of what we hold in our hearts. With our language we create a world for the people that we partner in support with to experience and we have the power to make it a world worth living in.
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