When you’re a family caregiver to someone nearing the end of their life, you’re eventually going to have to face grief. Even if your family member has not passed away yet, anticipatory grief is likely to be part of what you’re feeling. Hospice elder care can assist with your family member’s immediate needs, but they can also help you to learn how to manage grief in a healthy way.
Grief Is Part of Life and Caregiving
Loss is part of life, but that doesn’t mean that it’s easy to face or easy to cope with at all. Whether your elderly family member is expecting to pass away or has just done so, there is likely to be a great deal of grief at play. If you don’t learn how to manage and work through what you’re feeling, it’s only going to become more complicated and affect your life in deeper ways.
Symptoms of Grief
You may understand what grief looks and feels like, but it’s important to understand that there are symptoms of grief that you might not immediately connect to that process. Trouble concentrating, sleeping, and eating are all associated with grieving. But you might also feel angry that your family member is facing death. You might even be withdrawing from people and situations that normally bring you joy and fulfillment.
There’s No Timetable for Grieving
While it would be nice to know how long it is going to take for you to deal with your feelings of grief, there’s no accurate timetable for processing such complex emotions. Taking the best care of yourself that you can helps quite a bit. You also have to accept what is happening or has happened and let yourself actually feel the feelings that come up. Facing new routines can be difficult, too, which is so overwhelming as caregiving comes to an end.
Having Someone to Talk to Helps
It’s possible to grieve on your own, but that can take a lot longer and you might find yourself stuck in your grief without moving forward at all. Hospice elder care services can help you to find someone to talk to, whether that’s a therapist or a group of other people like yourself who are processing their own grief. Talking through your feelings can help you to work through them and let them go.
True Recovery Is Easier with Support
There are plenty of people who spend years processing grief or worse, never quite working through it. When you allow yourself to find the support that you need, you’re able to truly work through your grieving process and get to the other side. That is so much easier when someone is there to help you find the exact types of support you need. Hospice elder care services have experience doing exactly that for family members and caregivers.
You don’t have to deal with your grief on your own. When you have options available for support, you’re better able to be there for the people that you love and who rely on you.
If you or an aging loved-one is considering Hospice Care in Frisco, TX please contact the caring staff at Arcy Healthcare today. 469-293-1515
My name is Jimmie Stapleton. I am the founder and CEO of Arcy Healthcare. Arcy Healthcare includes Arcy Hospice, Arcy Supportive Care, MaximaCare Home Health and Arcy at Home.
Arcy Hospice was opened in 2007 to provide care and support for individuals and families facing a life limiting illness. It was established after my wife Ellen, who had been diagnosed with breast cancer, had completed her chemo and radiation therapies. At that time, things were looking positive, and we wanted to do something for our community that had been so supportive of our family during her treatments. Unfortunately, the cancer returned a few years later, and she subsequently passed away under our care in 2010.
In the years that followed, I began to see the need to provide the same level of excellent care to patients across the continuum of care. Therefore, we have added a home health division (MaximaCare Home Health), a palliative care division (Arcy Supportive Care), and a home care division, (Arcy at Home). With the addition of these divisions, we can meet most of the post-acute care needs for you and your family in your home.
I started Arcy Hospice with my wife as my motivation to provide exceptional care and support in the patient’s home, where they are surrounded by family and where they feel most comfortable. I’m proud to say that our staff provides some of the best in home care in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.
Please let us know if we can enrich the quality of life for you or a loved one.
Sincerely,
Jimmie Stapleton – Founder and CEO
Arcy Healthcare
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