Has This Happened To You? Your Family Life Is Affected By Caregiving.

We have seen how caregiving creeps until it fills one’s daily life and affects one’s job.  What about the people in your immediate family?  Do your children behave differently?  Are they withdrawn or act out?  Have you received school reports about problems?  We expect sibling rivalry when a new baby comes home.  What if the one who demands the parent’s attention is not a baby; it’s Grandma?  That’s not what most caregivers anticipate. Yet, a distracted parent is still a distracted parent.

What about your spouse?  The marriage vows cover sickness and health, richer or poorer.  They don’t include vows to care for your parent and mine. Perhaps we should add new vows should since caregiving now involves 43.5 million people; according to Caregiver.org/Statistics and demographics. That number will continue to climb!  Most couples haven’t considered caregiving the same way they considered where they would live or how many children to have.  

Yet, caregiving affects many households as well as individual caregivers.  Isn’t it time to address caregiving together, just as couples do with other life decisions?  Senior Sidekicks’ course, Preparing to Parent Your Parent, is designed to get spouses into working with each other.  Those who enroll can bring the spouse at half price.  Together, you will learn about handling various parts of caregiving and compile a manual for future reference.  You can arrange the course for a location near you; like your church.  Senior Sidekicks will deliver the course at times convenient for both of you; evenings, weekends, lunch hours, or days.  Call us today at 217-787-5866.