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Psychology of Care givers

Dr Annie Khanam Singh

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If you provide help to
another person in need,
you are a caregiver.
Caregivers help
individuals achieve
tasks and functions
necessary for daily life
that may have, for a
number of reasons,
become inaccessible to
them.
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Introduction to syllabus Sciences 

• Module -1
• Concept of Care giving
• Nature and Scope of care giving
• Historical Foundations

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Module -2 Sciences 

• Classification of care givers

• Primary Care givers
• Secondary care givers
• Tertiary care givers

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Module -3 Sciences 

• Care giving in different settings

• Rehabilitation and palliative
• De addiction centres
• Old age homes
• Orphanages
• Hospitals
• schools
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Module 4 Sciences 

• Psychological Prespective of care giving

• Quality of life
• Hope,positivity,optimism
• Social support
• Religion and spirituality

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Module-5 Sciences 

• Compassion Fatigue
• Burnout
• Identification of burn out
• Types of burnout
• Dealing with burnout
• Remedial measures

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Care giving stress Sciences 

• That is the thing about care giving. It is a round the clock job, and a
largely invisible one at that. As a caretaker, you often forget that
taking care of your health and well being is important too.
Everything gets pushed to the sideline.
I experienced the symptoms first hand, but the guilt was not letting
me do so. I didn't tell anyone about it, at first. Instead, I went on
around the day just like any regular Tuesday because there was no
point waiting, right?
• As caregivers, we often tend to forget ourselves. It is easy to
become so engrossed in looking after others that you neglect your
own emotional, physical health. Many caregivers feel "guilty" if they
spend time on themselves rather than on the one needing
assistance.

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Care giving Stress Sciences 

• Even talking about the "burden" of caregiving was, and

still is, a little difficult for me. Deep down, I always think-
if not me, who else would do it?
• Hitting the pause button to check up on ourselves can
seem daunting and most of us would rather dismiss it.
You start withdrawing from activities, have disrupted
sleep, feel restless and often neglect your own needs. A
study says that a whopping 39% caretakers experience
symptoms of bad mental health, only to realize it too late.
Depression affects 20 to 40% of all caregivers, with
women more prone to developing symptoms than men.

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Care giver stress Syndrome Sciences 

• Caregiver stress syndrome is a condition

characterized by physical, mental and
emotional exhaustion. It typically results
from a person neglecting their own
physical and emotional health because
they are focused on caring for an ill,
injured or disabled loved one.

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Care giving Burnout Sciences 

• Care giving is often a long-term challenge, the emotional

impact can snowball over time. One may face years or
even decades of care giving responsibilities. 

• If the stress of care giving is left unchecked, it can take a

toll on your health, relationships, and state of mind—
eventually leading to burnout, a state of emotional,
mental, and physical exhaustion. And when you get to
that point, both you and the person you’re caring for
suffer.

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Types of care giving Sciences 

• Care Management- Arrange for care

services
• Determining hours of services, eligibility of
care providers
• Convincing care recipients, mediate
between care providers and care seekers
• Care management requires decision
making
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Types of care giving Sciences 

• Instrumental Activities of Daily Living-IADL

• When people become ill, have day surgery, are released
early from hospital, have more long-term disabilities or
simply become frailer with old age.
• They require assistance with cooking, shopping, clean
ing, laundry, and home maintenance tasks.
• They may also need help getting around, within and
outside the house. People may require assistance with
only some of these tasks, or with all of them. Residential
care reduces the need for most, but not all, of this
support.
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Types of care giving Sciences 

• Assistance with activities of daily living-ADL

• Includes dressing, bathing, eating, using the toilet,
brushing their teeth and combing their hair.
• It also includes taking medications, inserting needles and
using a variety of equipment such as catheters, oxygen
masks and feeding tubes.
• Here, too, residential care fills much of the need but still
must be supplemented by informal caregivers in many
cases

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Types of Care Giving Sciences 

• Social and Emotional Support

• Within family and in formal set up
• May be provided within family or by a
trained professional
• Areas of long term care and Palliative care
of terminally ill, assisted living.

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