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Reframing Care
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Caregivers reflect on emotional toll, stress rest, reflection, and daily joy to reframe caregiving
Mark Applegate, Nia Howard, and Maureen Templeman reflect on the emotional toll of caregiving while emphasizing the importance of rest and reflection and how finding daily joy can help to reframe caregiving in our society.
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Reframing Care
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Mark Applegate, Nia Howard, and Maureen Templeman reflect on the emotional toll of caregiving while emphasizing the importance of rest and reflection and how finding daily joy can help to reframe caregiving in our society.
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[MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR: Caregiving can be lonely business.
The CDC finds 25% of all US adults only sometimes or never receive the social and emotional support they need.
The issue can be worse for caregivers.
A study looking at caregiving of elders in the "Journal of Gerontology" found 12% of caregivers were socially isolated, 27% were lonely.
We need to be able to take a physical deep breath.
We need to be able to recharge and refresh.
You are human and perfectly made, and humans need that break.
They need somebody that is on their side.
Reflection is a-- is a big thing.
You think about the things you did right, think about the things you did wrong.
You can either bury that, or you can share it with someone else.
And hopefully they don't do the same things.
One thing I learned that was very helpful for me is finding daily joy in time with mom instead of just dwelling on what's-- what's missing from her.
A lot of studies focus on, like, burden and depression among caregivers although not all caregivers do experience those things.
A lot of caregivers have tremendous coping resources, and they're able to find meaning in caregiving and find that they're learning new skills or that they're contributing positively to the person that they love, that they're giving back to the person who gave so much to them.
Often like African-American and Hispanic or Latinx caregivers do find more meaning and benefit in caregiving, and I think that's sort of a cultural thing.
And so to sort of reframe the idea of caring for a loved one in our society, it really could help to counteract that feeling of burden and then also place a higher value on caregiving so that maybe there would be more incentive for federal or state governments to give benefits to caregivers.
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