Category: Family

Getting Your Siblings to Help With Caregiving

Providing care for your aging parents can be a very difficult task, especially when you are balancing it with work and a family of your own to take care of. Having siblings to help share the work load can be very beneficial, unfortunately not all siblings are willing to help. We at Carefect Home Care Services understand the difficulties that family caregivers face and would like to share some tips on how you may get your siblings to help. The first thing you can do as a primary caregiver to...

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Things to Consider When Your Aging Parents Move into Your Home

Caring for an aging parent can be a difficult task, and there are many things that you should consider when your parent moves into your home. We at Carefect Home Care Services fully understand that there are many things that family caregivers should consider when taking in an elderly parent and would like to share a list of tips to help make the process go as smoothly as possible. Before your aging parents move into your home, you should take a few things into consideration. The first thing to consider...

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Tips on How to Balance Work and Caregiving

Being a caregiver can often be quite difficult and time consuming. Many adults with full or part time jobs find it even more difficult when they have to balance work and caregiving. We at Carefect Home Care Services understand the difficulty of caregiving for your senior loved one and working at the same time and would like to offer some tips on how to find a balance between the two. The first thing to keep in mind is that you have to make sure that you take care of yourself...

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Caregiving and Sibling Relationships (part 3 of 3) – Multiple Decision Makers

Caring for an aging parent can put stress on sibling relationships even if they have been close in the past.  The first of this series discussed the situation where one sibling was handling the majority of the decisions and care, but what happens when everyone wants to be involved?  How do you decide who is in charge or how decisions are made? The Issues with Multiple Decision makers The main problem with having several people involved in decisions is that it can take longer to get the actual decision made. ...

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Caregiving and Sibling Relationships (part 2 of 3) – Siblings With Separate Responsibilities

Caregiving for an elderly parent can be trying on the closest sibling relationship; if the relationship is strained or non-existent, it can add to the challenge.  One way that parents choose to assign responsibility is by dividing up caregiving tasks between the children.  A child that lives nearby may end up handling most of their daily care while another child may deal with the finances.  This division sounds fair and should make things easier, but it doesn’t always work that way. Challenges of Separate Responsibilities Giving each child their own...

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Caregiving and Sibling Relationships (part 1 of 3) – Single Caregiver

As seniors get older, they often have to rely on their children more for things they used to do on their own. It may even come to the point where they live with one of their children. This situation can put a strain on many relationships, including siblings. Caregiving is a challenge no matter how much you love your parents. When there are multiple siblings, that increases the challenges and many issues arise during this time. It will test the strength of these relationships, but it will also help them...

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