How to Cope With a Loved One in Nursing Home

Tip 1 - Difficult transitions Coping with a loved ones move to a nursing home can be anguishridden

For family members caring for a relative with dementia in the community, the emotional burden of nursing home placement may be greater than the death This might help explain the conflicts that frequently arise between nursing facilities and family members.

Tip 2 - Transition to Care

Tip 3 - When a Nursing Home Must Be Considered

If you have been trying to go it alone in caring for an elderly loved one, remember that burnout is a very real possibility. It is important to acknowledge the impact caregiving is having on you and to get support and good counsel about available services and resources.

Tip 4 - Coping with Guilt and Grief after Nursing Home Placement

Perhaps your loved one said to you,"Please don't ever put me in a nursing home", and yet you've had to make that decision. How do you cope with the feelings of guilt and grief in a productive way?

Tip 5 - When a loved one must enter a nursing home: tips from a top geriatric expert

By Pamela Fayerman Placing a family member in residential, long-term care is one of the most emotionally wrenching decisions anyone ever has to make. In an ideal world, we'd keep our parents safe at home, with ever-increasing levels of professional caregiving. But only the wealthiest can afford 24/7 home-based care.  So the remaining option is…
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Tip 6 - Getting past the guilt of putting a loved one in a long-term facility

AFTER MARION Albert's husband was admitted to a nursing home, she went home and looked at his old room and cried.For 10 years she had nursed Ken Albert and watched as symptoms of Alzheimer's disease...
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