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Caregiving can be hard. It involves unfamiliar situations, decisions and actions. It requires new resources, knowledge and skills. Schedules, priorities and relationships change continually. Further, the physical, social, psychological, emotional and financial demands can be substantial and unrelenting.
Caregiving has its rewards. Thousands of caregivers before you have met the challenges and discovered that caregiving can offer many satisfying rewards. These can include:
- the satisfaction of performing well a compassionate service for a someone you care about
- gaining new skills and experiences
- becoming better organized
- becoming a better problem solver
- working effectively with others
- becoming more flexible, resilient and tolerant
- finding new meaning, values and perspectives in your own life
- discovering a heightened capacity for empathy, nurturing and affection
- being greatly appreciated
Caregiving at home. Our care tools focus on, but are not imited to, care at home, where most people prefer to live. The benefits of at-home care can include:
- familiarity, stability and comfort
- support for routines (such as dressing), hobbies and pleasures, and participation because things are where they should be
- familiar sensations (odours, light patterns, textures, sounds) and memories that match places
- familiar people and social situations
- control over who provides care
- control over care quality
- significant savings, since typical out-of-home care costs are $2000-$4000/month
Every person, chronic disease, and caregiving situation is unique. There are many ways to provide care, however the most successful take advantage of the Wisdom of Experienced Caregivers.
 
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