Respite care services are critical to primary caregivers as they affect the quality of care that they give to their loved ones. Primary caregiving is hard and many people often find themselves burnt out after a period of time. With respite care services, this does not need to be the case. Read on to find out why respite care as a primary caregiver can help improve your health and the quality of care that you give.
What Is Respite Care?
Respite care services are geared at giving temporary relief to primary caregivers. This is done by an assisted living community such as Rittenhouse Village At Northside who take over your primary caregiving function. This in turn allows you to take a break, travel, or tend to other responsibilities that you may have. If you are a primary caregiver to a loved one, you may feel like this is a betrayal of your loved one. Nothing can be further from the truth. As a primary caregiver, you cannot afford to neglect your own health as it affects the quality of care that you give to your loved one.
Here are some good reasons why you should consider respite care services.
Your Health
The quality of care that you give to a loved one is contingent on how healthy you are. When you burn out, you may even put your loved one at risk. For example, it is easy to forget to give medication to your loved one (or more often, mix up prescriptions) due to fatigue. This is especially the case when your loved one requires long hours of care. Respite care allows you to take a much-needed break while ensuring your loved one gets top-quality care.
Your Responsibilities
Other than the fact that your aging loved one depends on you, many of us have more than one responsibility. We may also be responsible for other family members and we may also be employed or running businesses. Being a primary caregiver can take up most of your time, meaning that these other responsibilities get neglected. Respite care services ensure that you also get time to tend to these important duties without compromising the health of your loved one.
As a Dry-run for Assisted Living Care
When your loved one is contemplating assisted living care, using respite care services might be a good way to get a feel of how it feels to be in an assisted living community. Many people have no idea what life is like in an assisted living community and this may be a great way to decide if this is the right thing for you. In fact, our experience at Rittenhouse Village At Northside is that people who come for our respite care services often make the decision to return for assisted living care.
Why Rittenhouse Village At Northside?
At Rittenhouse Village At Northside, we offer a variety of options for the care of your loved ones, ensuring that they live a life of dignity and comfort. At our living community, we handle all aspects of everyday life for your loved one including cooking, cleaning, laundry, and much more. This ensures that your loved one has enough time to relax and enjoy every day.
Our residents enjoy a variety of special features that we offer in our community. These include our rent lock feature where rent rates remain constant for the lifetime of your loved one at our community. You can also depend on our experts who are always on hand to help your loved ones. In that sense, you can have complete peace of mind that your loved one is in safe hands.
