FAMILY CAREGIVERS’ DECISIONS
The family caregivers’ journey is a unique path filled with emotions and uncertainty. The family caregivers’ pathway is never linear. Navigating the varying stages of a loved one's health requires many caregiving decisions to include :
Care Management
Resource Eligibility
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Food/Nutrition
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Housing
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Transportation
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Insurance
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Traditions/Cultural Consideration Wishes/Preferences
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Disease Management
Hospital
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Pharmacy
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Behavioral Health
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Social Services
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Medical Equipment
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Technology
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Self-Management
Spiritually
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Mentally
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Physically
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Emotionally
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Financially
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Without adequate information, education, and resources, family caregivers struggle personally, mentally, physically, and emotionally caring for aging loved ones. The Detroit Family Caregivers’ Project— Living Our Legacies will bring awareness to family caregivers through faith community commitment to enable the family caregiver and family caregiver supporters to plan for self-care and minimize the family caregiver's journey’s negative physical, mental, and emotional strain . In collaboration with faith communities and palliative-care professionals, Detroit Family Caregivers’ Project— Living Our Legacies will help members navigate the essentials of later life planning and decision-making. Family caregivers can be better prepared and familiar with their critical resources when needed. They will better understand their faith tradition’s beliefs related to life -sustaining devices, hospice, and other family caregiving decisions, becoming better equipped to support others and to be supported as well. The family caregiver will not only be well informed about their wishes, desires, and preferences during this time but also informed of these caregiving factors as a family caregiver. Detroit Family Caregivers’ Project— Living Our Legacies embraces that each family caregiving path ultimately leads to a way for family and friends to honor the legacy of their aging loved ones. Legacy is about living. The legacy of loved ones raises crucial spiritual reflections on the purpose of life, heightens the awareness of feelings of guilt and forgiveness, helps the process of healing, hope, and facing challenges. Ensuring that family caregivers honor the legacies of loved ones will help them to decide what matters most as they navigate the family caregivers ' journey.
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