According to the article, caregiving is divided into four stages:

Stage One: Getting Started
Recognize the impact of caregiving on your life and family, learn how to be a caregiver, and find out more about the older person who needs care.

Stage Two: Finding Help
Accept help from family, friends, place of worship, support groups, and formal services. Learn about help for working caregivers.

Stage Three: Heavy Care
Prevent caregiver burnout and injury while providing heavy-duty care, protect your care receiver’s health and safety, and consider facility care.

Stage Four: Letting Go
Resolve relationships, complete end-of-life decisions, use Hospice care, let yourself grieve, care for yourself, and have a plan for your life after caregiving has ended.

There’s valuable information about each stage, particularly in the 3rd stage which is “Heavy Care” and caregiver burnout is common.

There’s some great information here, and, I especially like the fact that it acknowledges the stage of letting go, and, making a plan for what to do after caregiving has ended. That part can get forgotten, sometimes.

(via Sometimes I Feel Like a Piece of Bologna)

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