How to Make Caregiving Easier

1. Find ways to communicate.

When your loved one becomes frustrated trying to find the right words, be patient. Allow time before "helping" fill speech gaps. Use short sentences, and add hand and face signals. Stand so your face and hands can be seen. Communicate from the side not affected by the stroke.
Communication is sharing information or providing entertainment by speaking, writing, or other methods. Probably the most important type of communication is personal communication, which happens when people make their thoughts and wishes known to one another. People communicate in manny ways, including by talking, by moving their hands, and even by making faces. People also use telephone calls, text massages, internet, and letters for personal communication. Without personal communication, parents would not know what their children need. Teachers could not help their students learn. Friends could not make plans with one another. People could not share knowledge. Each person would have learn everything for himself or herself.

2. Dont Take Emotional Outburst personally.

Realize behaviors such as inappropriate laughter or crying or easy irritation are due to the stroke. They don't necessarily express true feeling. Emotion is usually considered to be a feeling about or reaction to certain important events or thoughts. An emotion can be either pleasant or unpleasant. An individual also may have a mixture of both pleasant and unpleasant emotions. People enjoy feeling such pleasant emotions as love, happiness, and contentment. They often try to avoid feeling unpleasant emotions, such as loneliness, worry, and grief. However, people are sometimes not fully aware of their own emotions. Although most people believe they know what an emotion is, psychologists have not yet agreed on a definition that applies to both human beings and other animals.
Individuals communicate most of their emotions by means of words, a variety of other sounds, facial expressions, and gestures. For example, anger causes many people to frown, make a fist, and yell. People learn ways of showing some of their emotions from members of their society, though heredity may determine some emotional behavior. Research has shown that different isolated peoples show emotions by means of similar facial expression. Even children who are born blind have facial expressions like those of sighted children.

3. Create a Calm Environment.

When communicating, make sure you have the person's attention. Select a topic for discussion, make sure that when he or she is talking focused your faced and always listened. By moving your heads up side down means your understand what they saying, no argument is needed. Turn off the television or radio, a quiet place or environment, it helps to have a better conversations If your loved one loses interest, touch him or her to regain attention- or find a better time.

4. Be Flexible.

Observe natural cycles of your loved one's alertness and fatigue. Plan a flexible daily schedule that allows regular rest periods. Keep focused periods to five or 10 minutes at a time.

5. Plan Exercise.

Get an exercise plan from the physical therapist that they are the one conducting a physical theraphy, so what is physical theraphy. Physical theraphy is the use of physical means, such as light, heat, cold and exercise, to treat disease or injury. Physical theraphy is used to help prevent, relieve, or correct conditions that interfere with a person's physical ability to function normally. Physical theraphy is helpful in treating many diseases and disabilities. It is often used in treating heart and lung diseases and virious types of paralysis and muscles weaknesses, such as strokes and multiple sclerosis. It is also important in amputations, fractures and other injuries, and other orthopedic conditions. With the aid of physical theraphy, a disabled person may lead a constructive and creative life. There are many kinds of equipment, exercises and self-help devices are used to help the disabled person. Radiant heat lamps, electric heating pads, diathermy, hydrotheraphy, and paraffin baths are used to apply heat. Heat relieves pain, improves circulation, and relaxes muscles. Cold, when used soon after injury, lessens pain, hemorrhage, and swelling. Ultravio;et radiation attacks germs and promotes healing of certain skin disorders. Ultrasound is used to treat inflammatory conditions of joints, muscles, and nerves, and painful amputation stumps.
Exercise helps to maintain and improve body function and posture. It increases muscle tone, strength, and endurance. Some exercises can be performed by the patient alone. For others, the patient might need the help of the therapist. Often mechanical devices, such as parallel bars, stationary bicycles, pulleys, weights and dumbbells, are used. Self-help devices such as splints, braces, crutches, and wheelchairs help disables people perform daily activities. Physical therapist train people to use these devices and to develop confidence in accomplishing daily tasks.

6. Divide Responsibilities.

Share caregiving and household tasks among family members. Ask friends to help shop and run errands. Or have groceries delivered. Cook meals ahead and freeze meal-size portions.