Being a PAL: Professional and Family Caregiving
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When the Two Worlds Collide |
As a Professional, your responsibilities are pretty much spelled out. They may evolve as time goes on and the needs of your client change. As a family member, a son, daughter, sister, brother etc.of someone who now needs care your love and concern for them may move you to want to use your well developed skills to help care for them. But what happens if you must work 40 even 50 or more hours a week just to make ends meet? We all know that caregivers like ourselves are not the highest paid professionals. How do you balance both?
This can be a real tough position to be in. It may cause you a lot of stress. How do you handle this? Share your story with us?
This can be so difficult. I want to be there for my father, but I cannot miss work for fear I will lose my job. I try and spend as much of my time off with him, but I need time to de-stress too. Feel trapped.
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