16d • Caregivers Corner!
Great Idea!
Thanks Paul for creating this discussion!
I’ve been taking care of my mom for about a year now. She is in a facility, but the staffing there is basically there to earn a paycheck and do as little as possible.
So, I visit her daily or at the very least six days per week. I’m there for about an hour or so, and I bring her something that she can eat. She is on a mechanical, soft diet, and their answer to that was putting all of her food in a blender. How awful! So I bring her soft foods, like putting, single serve pieces of carrot, cake, and similar, and of course every Friday is “hot fudge Friday“ where I bring her a hot fudge sundae from Dairy Queen. I also provide her snacks to hold her over until the next day. Soft snacks, like Hostess Cakes and bags of mini donuts.
Another thing we (Kristine and I) do is her laundry. She was starting to get other peoples’ clothes in her laundry, and her clothes were disappearing. Plus, she loves Downy fabric softener, so we load her wash up with that!
I will straighten up her room and make her bed each day, and set out some clothes for the next day.
I’ll take her for a walk (or 7🤣) around the memory care unit to get her out of her room and moving.
With the travel time and the time that I spent there, it’s upwards of a three hour daily chunk. I have to manage which part of the day that’s going to be in so that I can still work, and keep up with some of the demands of bus life.
That’s just my little story. I hope to hear from the rest of you!
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