Experiencing Family Care

Experiencing Family Care

1. Rewards

2. difficulties

3. Hard work

4. Demanding skill

5. Restircitng

6. stressful

   • Family Tensions

7. Isolated

   • Loss if family life
     • Change in family dynamics, feeling of direct family affected
       • care affects by family life, past and present

8. Emotionally demanding

9. guilt provking

10. exhaustion

11. duty/responsibility

12. unsupportive

13. Frigthening

14. ann and angus

    • Incident on the stairs/torn between roles/

15. experinces vary person to person

16. three influences on caring relationships

    • Quality of relationships
      • Easier to care for someone you like at get along with
    • Choice
      • Not straight forward,
    • Support
      • informal
        • Family and friends helping
      • formal
        • outside agencies social services etc.

17. Obligation

18. Cared for not supported by single agency

19. Feelings of cared for individuals

    • Loss of power and control
    • Feeling a burden
    • Lack of choice
      • having things done for them as quicker rather tat what they require
    • Isolation
    • Fear

20. Asking for help

    • Often takes a crisis before people ask for supprt

21. information about alternatives