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    What Is A Caregiver

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    A caregiver is someone who provides care and assistance to another person who is sick, disabled, or elderly. The level of care depends on the needs and condition of the person receiving help, and can range from minor assistance with daily tasks to providing total care and assistance with all activities of daily living. Caregivers must demonstrate patience, compassion, attentiveness, dependability, and trustworthiness. Their roles and responsibilities may include assisting with personal care, meals, medication, transportation, emotional support, health monitoring, and household tasks. Caregiving can involve helping on a regular basis or occasionally, regardless of whether the person lives with the caregiver.

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    What Is A Caregiver

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    A caregiver is someone who provides care and assistance to another person who is sick, disabled, or elderly. The level of care depends on the needs and condition of the person receiving help, and can range from minor assistance with daily tasks to providing total care and assistance with all activities of daily living. Caregivers must demonstrate patience, compassion, attentiveness, dependability, and trustworthiness. Their roles and responsibilities may include assisting with personal care, meals, medication, transportation, emotional support, health monitoring, and household tasks. Caregiving can involve helping on a regular basis or occasionally, regardless of whether the person lives with the caregiver.

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    A caregiver is someone who provides care and assistance to another person who is sick, disabled, or elderly. The level of care depends on the needs and condition of the person receiving help, and can range from minor assistance with daily tasks to providing total care and assistance with all activities of daily living. Caregivers must demonstrate patience, compassion, attentiveness, dependability, and trustworthiness. Their roles and responsibilities may include assisting with personal care, meals, medication, transportation, emotional support, health monitoring, and household tasks. Caregiving can involve helping on a regular basis or occasionally, regardless of whether the person lives with the caregiver.

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    What Is A Caregiver

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    A caregiver is someone who provides care and assistance to another person who is sick, disabled, or elderly. The level of care depends on the needs and condition of the person receiving help, and can range from minor assistance with daily tasks to providing total care and assistance with all activities of daily living. Caregivers must demonstrate patience, compassion, attentiveness, dependability, and trustworthiness. Their roles and responsibilities may include assisting with personal care, meals, medication, transportation, emotional support, health monitoring, and household tasks. Caregiving can involve helping on a regular basis or occasionally, regardless of whether the person lives with the caregiver.

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    What is a caregiver?

    A caregiver is someone who takes care of another person who is either sick or disabled. A caregiver does
    those things, that the sick or disabled person can no longer do independently. In other words, what a
    caregiver does depends on just what that other person needs to have done for them. And that may depend
    on the stage or the severity of the illness or disability. In some cases, and at some stages of a disease, it
    may involve giving only a little bit of help: steadying the person’s gait, combing their hair, helping them
    to get dressed or helping them to get to the bathroom on time. In other cases, it can go much further, to
    the point, in fact, where the caregiver does virtually everything for the other person.

    What are the qualities of a caregiver?


     Patience. Those who provide home care to others need to be patient. Being patient means that the
    person understands that there may be changes in plans, things may not go as quickly as planned, and
    there may be a little hesitation at times on the part of the person receiving care.
     Compassion. When someone has compassion for another they have an understanding of what the
    person is going through.
     Attentiveness. It is important when providing home care that the caregiver is attentive to the needs
    and changes that are taking place. By being attentive, the caregiver, will notice when there are
    emotional or physical changes in the person he or she is caring for.
     Dependability. Those who need home care don’t usually just need it sporadically. Rather it is on a
    regular basis, so it is imperative that a caregiver be dependable and show up to provide the care that
    the person needs and is counting on.
     Trustworthiness. Caregivers are often in a position that will allow them to have access to the
    belongings of the person they are caring for. It is crucial that the caregiver be someone who is
    trustworthy and will not breach that trust by taking advantage of the person her or she is caring for.

    What are the role, duties, and responsibilities of a caregiver?

     Assisting with personal care: bathing and grooming, dressing, toileting, and exercise
     Basic food preparation: preparing meals, shopping, housekeeping, laundry, and other errands
     General health care: overseeing medication and prescriptions usage, appointment reminders and
    administering medicine
     Mobility assistance: help with getting in and out of a wheelchair, car or shower
     Personal supervision: providing constant companionship and general supervision
     Transportation: driving to and from activities, running errands, and help getting in and out of
    wheelchair-accessible vehicle
     Emotional support: being a stable companion and supporter in all matters personal, health-related
    and emotional
     Care for the elderly: orienting or grounding someone with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia,
    relaying information from a doctor to family members
     Back-up care (or respite) services: providing other caregivers a break
     Home organization: help with organizing, packing or cleaning for a trip, or general house care
    and cleaning
     Health monitoring: following a care plan and noticing any changes in the individual’s health,
    recording and reporting any differences
    Caregiving is helping someone out, assisting someone, nurturing
    them. It can range from Saturday grocery shopping for a
    grandparent to providing total care, such as transporting,
    bathing, feeding and dressing. The person you take care of
    doesn’t have to live with you for you to be a caregiver. Assisting
    someone who does not live with you is also caregiving.

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