The Caregiving Process
Caregiving is a positive process in which one or more people take the primary responsibility for nurturing and meeting another person's needs. It may be helpful to think of caregiving as a journey where everyone — the caregiver (generally the person with power of attorney), care recipient, and support group — cooperates in the care management process, which aims to create the most positive, rewarding, and comfortable life possible for an elderly recipient.
The journey is different for every recipient, caregiver, and support group, but certain steps occur frequently. You may follow all or some of these steps. You may double back to repeat some steps. Or you may follow them in a slightly different order to the way in which they are presented here.
The steps are presented here as a guide, and are flexible enough that you can adapt them to your own individual journey.
