Could Palliative Care Help Your Entire Family?

May 10, 2018
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When you first look into bringing palliative care providers into your senior’s life, you might see right away how they can help your aging adult. There’s actually an awful lot that they can do for your entire family, however. This is especially true when you’ve never had to deal with end-of-life concerns before.

Caring for Your Senior Can Drain You

As much as you love your aging adult and caring for her, it can drain you on many levels. Burning the candle at both ends leaves you physically exhausted and yet you have to get back up the next day and do it all over again. By the same token, dealing with end-of-life issues for your senior wears on you emotionally. Having someone else you can share the responsibilities with helps you to rebuild your reserves.

Isolation Becomes Common Toward the End of Life

Because your senior requires much more from you, it’s possible that you and the rest of your family members are isolating yourselves a lot more than in the past. Isolation can increase feelings of sadness and depression that you don’t need to have worsening right now. Palliative care providers can give you the opportunity to regain parts of your life again.

Bereavement Often Begins before Your Senior Dies

Many people think about bereavement and the grieving process as a whole as something that starts in earnest after you experience the loss of a family member or other loved one. Unfortunately, plenty of circumstances are such that it becomes obvious that you’re about to lose someone that you care about. Anticipatory grief is a very real issue that palliative care providers can help you to manage. They can put you in touch with resources to help you deal with your feelings of grief now and in the future.

Practical Concerns Are Overwhelming

The practical considerations of helping an elderly family member who is at the end of her life can literally be mind-boggling. When you’re not sure what to deal with next, everything starts to feel like an emergency situation. Having help around who can help you focus on what makes sense to handle next can remove a lot of uncertainty for you.

Having palliative care providers helping you regularly can give you the opportunity to step back when you need to regain your footing. From there, you can make decisions based on a calmer mindset than you might be in when you’re in turmoil.

 

If you or a loved-one have questions about Palliative Care in West Orange, NJ, please contact the caring staff at Serenity Hospice. Call today, we can help:  (609)-227-2400

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