According to the website deloro.org it is important for Caregivers to care for themselves as well as the family member who is incpacitated.
1. One needs to take care of yourself in order to best serve your loved one.
2. One needs to maintain an outside life apart from who is cared for.
3. Emotions, such as anger, sadness and depression are natural for a caregiver to feel.
4. It is right to reject any manipulation through guilt or other feelings that someone might attempt.
5. One might feel pride and satisfaction in taking care of a loved one and these feelings are completely acceptable.
6. One has the right to maintian their individuality and their own lives for a time will come when the loved one no longer needs full time care.
7. One must accept new resources and aid wherever a caregiver might find such help.
8. "Consideration, affection, foregiveness and acceptance" are qualities that a loved one might express and need to be accepted and returned by a caregiver.
the author of these "rights" is unkown. However it can be found at http://deloro.org/article12.htm
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