Caregiving

Published by admin January 4th, 2008 in Care Giving.
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  • 1 in 4 households in the USA is involved in caregiving to a person age 50 or over.
  • More than 50 million people, provide care for a chronically ill, disabled or aged family member or friend during any given year.
  • Nearly 7 million Americans are long-distance caregivers for older relatives (i.e.., travel a distance of one hour or more between caregiver and older adult needing assistance).
  • By the year 2030, nearly 150 million Americans will have some type of chronic illness, a 50% increase since 1995.
  • Family caregivers provide the overwhelming majority of homecare services in the U.S., approximately 80%.

Currently, we are beginning to see adults in their 40s and 50s (the sandwich generation) who will be most likely spending more years helping their parents than taking care of their children. In nearly one in four U.S. households, there is someone caring for an elderly relative or friend. Generally, this involves helping the older person with a host of questions and choices, ranging from medical care to living arrangements, to finances, and to judgments about whether we may need to intervene in our parents’ lives.

Most people feel ill informed about the problems of aging, ill-equipped to help, and unaware of resources that are available to assist them. Makes these issues even more complex and difficult to deal with is our mobile society, more than 7 million American children living far away from their parents.

There are some things in life we don’t really want to think about; consequently we don’t plan for them. One of those “things” is aging parents and their changing needs. Somebody—either the adult child or parent—has to start the conversation about a parent’s plans for the future. Otherwise a crisis will do it for you. Denial that nothing will change—that parents will continue on forever—can lead to countless problems, stresses and ultimately to caregiver illness and depression. The key to success is communication; start the conversation and try to keep it going no matter how difficult or painful.

This section of Crisisid.com is designed to assist caregivers that are looking after the medical needs of the care receiver. We have put together a set of steps that are practical, easy to use and understand, can be stored, easily distributed or shared in an emergency and are very inexpensive. Various items may not apply to your particular situation either remote or local caregiving.