Managing Caregiver Guilt and Shame about Moving Aging Parent to Assisted Living

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Have you helped your loved one move to a senior living or assisted living community only to find that in the midst of experiencing relief that your loved one is being cared for and is safe, you also have intense feelings of caregiver guilt and shame?
You're not alone. Many caregivers struggle with guilt and shame after moving older loved ones into a senior living community. Perhaps you feel that you've let your older loved one down, like you're not being a dutiful spouse, daughter, or son. This can lead to emotional distress and discontent.
To help you navigate the emotionally turbulent waters of caregiver guilt and shame, I've prepared 5 strategies for helping you to move through guilt and shame when helping your older loved one adjust to senior living.
In this episode, I share:
- common reasons guilt and shame arise in caregiving
- 5 strategies for moving through guilt and shame as a caregiver
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  • @Rogelio_007
    @Rogelio_0072 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Regina. Every bit of understanding helps. Such a difficult experience for both parents and their children. It seems to happen overnight. One day your 25 and your parent is 50. You wake up one day aged 50 and your parent is 75 needing care 😑. It's nature, but it sucks.

  • @melissaca5407
    @melissaca54072 жыл бұрын

    What a wonderful talk! Thank you, Iam sure I will be using all of these strategies as I have the nursing home talk with my mom later today.

  • @chewyourmilk
    @chewyourmilk2 жыл бұрын

    This was great thank you so much

  • @smilinmoo
    @smilinmoo2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! Humorist Erma Bombeck once said “Guilt is the gift that keeps on giving.” Boy, was she right. The time has come for my non-ambulatory 91 yr old Mom to go into a care home-well, honestly, the time was 5 years ago, right after Dad passed. She swore then that if we put her in a nursing home, she’d stop eating and starve herself to death. She got by with the help of good neighbors, 2 part-time caregivers and very frequent visits from my siblings and I. Until the pandemic, that is. My husband was working from home, so we were able to move in with Mom. He’s 67 and I’ll be turning 66 this month. We’ve both aged about a million years. He retires in a few days and we want to travel like my folks did when they were our age. I love my Mom, but our relationship has always been “complicated.” People tell me I’m a good daughter, but I’ve had all the feelings you spoke about including one more: resentment. I’ve already told our sons and daughter in law to put me in a home if I live that long.

  • @loriwebster6473

    @loriwebster6473

    2 жыл бұрын

    Oh boy... I can relate to this.

  • @kimberlyfaill926

    @kimberlyfaill926

    Жыл бұрын

    Me too!

  • @janetsavona7590
    @janetsavona75902 жыл бұрын

    Why does everyone make it such a shame To me theirs nothing wrong with it