PARENT CARE
That is the third post in our series of mini-blogs dedicated to care…
The attitude of caring for a daughter
What if we’re the kid that’s now? taking good care of our mom or dad with aphasia who not only has problems taking good care of themselves, but isn’t any longer in a position to communicate their desires and desires?
She shared the daughter of considered one of my patients “From an early age, we all the time turn to our parents to share with them the enjoyment, sadness, ups and downs of life. Once we are young, our parents provide us with physical support. As we grow old, physical support from our parents turns into emotional support. “Parents provide us with unconditional love and support.”
I imagine this could be difficult for somebody with aphasia they supply the identical level of emotional support that they once provided to their children, spouses, and even friends. And it is not that they haven’t got these feelings anymore, or that they cannot even show these emotions, but This affected the verbal and auditory portions essential to offer emotional support by a language disorder. We could have to acknowledge and accept them latest ways of showing this emotional supportbe it for more non-verbal signals (i.e. facial features) or physical manifestations of emotions (i.e. hugging, holding hands).
Imagine you’re daughter father affected by aphasia. This “daughter” also has her family – two children and a husband – and he or she has it now she took on the role of caring for her father who has significant aphasia. She is his personal secretary – the necessity to arrange and follow up meetings; she is his speech therapistpracticing tasks on daily basis and ensuring other relations complete them throughout the day; it’s undoubtedly his spokesmanon the lookout for one of the best therapists who implement methods based on the most recent research… and the list goes on. He also has a successful profession and her family responsibilities. When is it time to simply be a daughter? How can she be the recipient of this unconditional love and support when her day by day schedule is bogged down with the 30 other roles she has taken on?
Allow us to also do not forget that she is she tries to be a mother of her own two children ia wife to her incredibly supportive husband. She feels guilty when she Googles the most recent research on aphasia because she needs to be spending time along with her children. So she takes her children to the playground and reads to them in the course of the day, and in the course of the night, when her children and husband are asleep, she searches on Google. She tries to maintain the daddy who took care of her, but struggles to search out a balance in between taking good care of her father AND taking good care of her own children.
That is rather a lot for somebody to take care of, and it’s a tunnel where it’s hard to search out the sunshine at the top. When our gas tanks are emptyas we are able to see This it’s okay to do what we’d like to do for ourselves order a refill and top-up? There’s something we are able to do as rehabilitation specialists Down let’s encourage this fashion of pondering, let’s provide our family members with a positive attitude and encourage them Down maintain your emotional and physical well-being?
In my next blog, I’ll discuss the 7 categories described by Tami Howe and colleagues (2012) and why what we are able to do today as physicians to rehabilitate our caregivers is IT’S JUST NOT ENOUGH.