Many families count on one adult child, the daughter or the son, to take on the responsibilities of family care giving. The adult daughters often care for children, spouse and an older adult relative while maintaining a career.
We have all heard the old African saying "It takes a whole village to raise a child." It expresses some things that we can all easily accept: family values, shared responsibility, community spirit. But where is that same spirit when it comes to caring for our elderly?
What about caring for the needs of the caregiver? The needs of the adult child, the daughter (and more and more, the son) are often ignored and trivialized by community, physicians, employers, other family and society in general.
Family caregivers faced with a landscape much different from the one commonly accepted and assumed by society suffer guilt and exhaustion while attempting to ‘do it all’.
'Families have never done this with such complicated medical treatment and the kind of economic pressures this brings today, says Carol Leving, director of the United Hospital Fund’s Families and Health Care project in New York City. 'In the old days, people got better or they died.'
Caregivers (both the daughter and the son) often times have higher health risks than those they care for. Severe depression, anxiety, substance abuse, severe anger and stress-related diseases including cardiovascular disease, cancer and infectious diseases are highly common.
Senior Approved Services is the village that you and your loved ones can turn to. Services, resources and support for both the older adult and the family caregiver are available. Senior Approved Services strives to assist the entire family by making our service a one-call or one-stop solution, saving you time, money and stress.
We provide peace of mind. Each elder care business within our network has a proven record of being a safe reliable service, product and or resource. All of these services have contracted with us to conduct a survey of their clients and only those with a 90% or higher senior satisfaction rating have been awarded the Senior Approved Certification.
Seniors Approve collaborates with other excellent national family caregiver resources to enhance our ability to provide the ultimate one-call solution. Why spend hours researching for information, education and support when you can find everything you need in one place.
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