These days, home health care has almost become synonymous to caregiving
. What happens here is that you hire a care professional to help assist your elders as they continue to live in their own home or as you leave them behind at home to go to work.
Despite its growing popularity, there are still some people who end up having misconceptions about caregiving. They look at it on a negative light due to hearsay and insufficient knowledge about how the whole process should work.
Among the misconceptions against caregiving is that there is always some elder abuse involved. But this is not entirely true. Caregiving would only end up this way if you didn't conduct a thorough background check or research with your caregiver. Also, working with legitimate agencies would prevent you from hiring these so-called abusers.
Some people fear hiring a caregiver because they think that this person might replace them in their parents' lives. So they end up trying to live on the double between work and caring for their parents. But in reality, elders can only forget you if they have a case of dementia or Alzheimer's and in case they have this still undiagnosed, the caregiver might give you an idea that they are displaying symptoms of these.
There are also all these big expectations among caregivers to know everything. But the truth is everything would depend on you-you are the one who should create the plan and the daily scheduled which the caregiver must follow. This way all the important things that your elders must have would be pointed out accordingly.
Another sad thing about those who oppose the thought of caregiving is the fact that they have issues with it mainly because they are against the race of the person who is giving care to the elders. Some even end up having a preference for someone when it comes to choosing the caregiver.
Some people also tend to think that caregiving is an expensive thing. You can actually save on costs if you end up choosing a provider covered by your elders' insurance plan. If you also choose to enter into a direct contract agreement with a licensed professional, you can also end up saving on costs.+
Home health care is an option worth exploring. It allows you to be hands on for your elders' welfare even if you also have other things to attend to.