Caregiver Health

a lost art.

Caregiver health is quickly fading. Agreed? I'm hard pressed to find a caregiver these days who is not overwhelmed by the daily grind of caring for an aging parent or family member while managing the home and raising little ones.

I've been working as a home health care physical therapist for the better part of 15 years. I've seen the stress of caregivers. I've seen the exhaustion, the bewildered looks, the emptiness, the "no light at the end of this tunnel" despair.

It's real, it's here, it's awful! And it feels never ending.

I've seen caregivers become the second patient. This is preventable! Simple, natural remedies and fitness tips go a long way towards your health as a caregiver.

Little by little can make a huge difference. A difference essential to your health, fitness, your life.

I'm sure your can identify with:

• The enormous physical demands of caregiving out number the hours in a day.
• Working all day only to come home and work more.
• Highly physically demanding work. Transferring, lifting, pushing, pulling,wheelchair management.
• Lack of deep, health restoring sleep and sleep.
• Fitness levels slowly slipping out of your grasp.
• The mental strain and stress of dwindling finances, time and ability.
• You could name a million more.

good news!

We will be adding more fitness tips and Exercise programs to our online fitness training site over the next few months so caregivers and patients can become stronger, healthier and more independent in their roles.

New Exercise programs will focus on Caregiver Health and Patients and what you need to do for strength and health!

For example: Bed to Wheelchair Transfers

• Transferring a a patient from a bed to a wheelchair can result in injury to both the patient and the caregiver if one or both are weak and not careful.
• We will add an exercise program for Caregivers and for Patients teaching you everything you need to strengthen to be able to accomplish this transfer injury free and for patients to require less help, becoming more independent.

Stay tuned as we soon roll these programs out.

You will find:

• Improved strength
• Improved health
• Improved balance in your life
• More energy to meet the demands of care-giving
• Increased independence for patients to take control of their lives
• Better family/care-giver dynamics as strength begins to combine with teamwork

Caregiver health is vital to continue your caregiving! Make it a priority!

More coming soon!

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