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Four Tips for Caring for Someone Who Is Dying 

When you’re a caregiver to someone who is nearing the end of their life, it can all feel incredibly complicated.
Sad senior man in hospital bed and his wife sitting next to him
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Caring for someone that you love as they near the end of their life is a complicated time full of emotions. Knowing that there are tools that can help you to navigate that time more easily is so important. 

Find Help with the Hands-on Aspects of Caregiving 

Your elderly family member’s medical team is there to help, but you may find that you need more help than that. That’s especially true when you’re talking about the daily hands-on aspects of caring for someone at the end of life. End-of-life care providers can offer the assistance that you need, particularly with the aspects of care that you’re not sure how to handle at all. 

Know that Making Decisions Isn’t Easy, but You Can Find Help 

It’s never easy to make decisions about someone else’s care. And if you and your elderly family member didn’t get a chance to really talk about her wants at the end of her life, that can feel even more overwhelming to you. End-of-life care providers can help with this, too, but putting you in touch with agencies and groups that can help.  

Learn Little Ways to Offer Comfort and Support 

Often all that you can really do when your senior is getting closer to the end of her life is to support her and offer her what comfort you can. Offering her ice chips or water to help her stay hydrated or offering small servings of favorite foods that are easy for her to eat can help her to be more comfortable. There are other things you can do as well, like helping her to change positions when necessary or helping her to stay warm. 

Don’t Forget to Care for Yourself and Your Own Needs 

It’s also important that you don’t forget to take care of your own needs while you’re caring for your senior. Remember that you need to rest and to eat healthy foods. Let other people step in so that you can take breaks. That can feel difficult, too, but in different ways than all the other things you’re doing. But if you neglect yourself, that’s going to make it even harder for you to do things for your senior. 

Keeping up with your elderly family member’s needs as she gets even closer to the end of her life is so much easier to do with experienced help. Letting end-of-life care providers assist however they can frees up your time and energy to help in other ways. 

If you or an aging loved-one is considering End of Life Care contact the caring staff at Arcy Healthcare today. 469-293-1515 

Jimmie Stapleton

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