Emotional & Physical Signs of Caregiver Stress
While caregiving can be a very rewarding and bonding experience, it can also be very demanding. When you're an in-home senior care caregiver it's easy to forget about your own needs while catering to those of your loved ones, creating a stressful and potentially unhealthy situation for both parties.
The emotional stress involved with providing elder care, particularly for those who are working, can strain even the most capable person. The resulting feelings of anger, anxiety, sadness, isolation, exhaustion – and then guilt for having these feelings – can exact a heavy toll including physical problems.
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