Chronic Illness Vs Caregiver

The purpose of this paper is to incorporate one family's experience of living with multiple chronic illnesses into the Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM) and Rolland's Chronic Health Challenge Framework. CFAM was developed by Dr. Lorraine M. Wright, a professor Emeritus of nursing and by Dr. Maureen Leahey, a manager of a mental health outpatient program both have over 25 years experience while still managing to supervise, teach, consult, write, and maintain a part-time clinical practice in individual, couple, and family therapy (Moxie, 2007). CFAM allows nurses to assess families during interviews. CFAM is a multidimensional framework consisting of three major categories: structural, dimensional and functional. (Wright & Leahey, 2005)

https://gumroad.com/l/Teayh SOC Final Paper Final Paper To complete this assignment, read through the scenario below and address the specific questions and issues indicated. Review the "Introduction to the Miller Family" document for specific information on each member of the family.

When a particular family member thinks about health its not just a thought but a action to take control of how that behavior will encourage the best health they can possibly obtain. A family is considered a complex unit made up of many dimensions within that unit. By this being said all family members may have acquired a illness, disease, or passed a inherit gene on but is well in all other parts of their health. A disease is an illness that will affect the family as a whole, this illness could be very taxing on the family as a unit, this illness or disease could present itself as either a acute or chronic presentation. The manner in which the illness progresses will determine the taxing effect on the

Family and Community Resource Project: Super Aweosme Title Chronic illness sucks. Many families in Canada and around the world live with a person who has one or more chronic condition. Chrionic conditions can range from heart disease, injury, cancer, and mental illness. Chronic conditions are “impairments in function, development, or disease states that are irreversible . Chronic illness Over the course of three interviews This paper will explore the effects of chronicity on families living with chronic condiditons through research and recounting of interviews .

husbands only thought of their wives by their illnesses, not as a person having one. This caused a great

To complete this assignment, read through the scenario below and address the specific questions and issues indicated. Review the "Introduction to the Miller Family" document for specific information on each member of the family.

Significant yet not widely talked about, one of the greatest issues and stressors many families have to cope with is that of chronic illness. While the family that has to cope with a loved one’s battle with cancer or a traumatic car accident is at the forefront of the minds of all those close to them, coming up in conversation and the target of prayers and well wishes, families coping with chronic illness often fade into the background. Perhaps the reason individuals do not often hear of or think of those that are chronically ill or disabled is because after the shock of an initial diagnosis, the reality of chronic illness fades from people’s thoughts because it becomes a part of ordinary, everyday life. For the many families that deal with

Abstract: Provided the demographic changes affecting America, it is increasingly important to identify the key factors in healthy aging and longevity. The prohibitive cost of health care for chronically ill individuals makes it important to pursue all avenues of study related to health in an aging population. Genetics is thought to

Attention and energy focus on the family member who is ill or addicted. The co-dependent person typically sacrifices his or her needs to take care of a person who is sick. When co-dependents place other people’s health, welfare and safety before their own, they can lose contact with their own needs, desires, and sense of self.

As noted before, family caregivers have expressed that such services have helped them cope with the demands of the caregiver role, but at times they are inadequate in alleviating caregiver burden (Bialon & Coke, 2012). As mentioned before, Morris et al. (2015) indicated that there are a number of unmet needs that impact the wellbeing of the family caregiver which limits their ability to care for the patient in the manner they would like to. Three types of support were identified that caregivers required from professional home care-givers: instrumental support, emotional support and information (Morris et al., 2015). Instru-mental support involved providing practical assistance in the home (Morris et al., 2015), this included how to perform nursing tasks and use equipment (Beland, 2013). As many caregivers themselves are frail and elderly, or simply inexperienced, it can lead to the breakdown of their ability to participate on hands-on care, like feeding and bathing (Morris et al., 2015). Emotional support involved relieving care burden and allowing caregivers to maintain and participate in personal activities (Morris et al., 2015). While support through information allowed caregivers to understand the patient’s prognosis and expected/possible complications (Morris et al., 2015). Healthcare professionals should be prepared to discuss end-of-life issues when

3) What limitations did the authors face in data collection? How could these have been lessened or minimized? A limitation of the study is that the protocol as funded did not involve auditing the behaviors of caregivers to determine whether their symptom management changed and whether any changes that were made were appropriate and effective. Patients who were admitted to the hospice often were too ill to participate in the study, and despite careful screening, those who did participate were likely to die before all data were collected. Starting the study with patients just prior to their hospice admission could minimize the loss of patients during the data collection. Questioning the caregivers about their symptom management strategies at the initial interview and during follow ups can lessen the chance that caregivers changed their symptom management strategies unknowingly to the researchers.

Abstract—Alzheimer’s disease is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. As medicine continues to advance, people are living longer. This means that there are more and more elderly people that need caregivers. Also, alzheimer’s disease is showing up in people at younger ages now, meaning that there

Witt Sherman (1998) suggests that palliative care must be offered to family members of patients with terminal illnesses to address the physical, emotional, and social needs associated with being the caregiver of a person with a terminal illness, stating “the clinician needs to acknowledge the caregivers efforts and assess his or her relationship with the patient and other family members, while encouraging the expression of fears, concerns, loss, and grief. It is important to put the caregiver in touch with respite services before stress, emotional and physical exhaustion, and depression take their toll” (Witt Sherman, 1998). As an intern at a cancer institute, this writer assesses for the mood and needs of patients’ family members by initiating discussions about how they are coping with the patient’s illness. This writer attempts to empower caregivers by asserting the need for self-care at a time when they are devoting most of their time and energy to the family member they are caring for and providing them with the knowledge that the services offered by the Psychosocial Oncology department are available to them, as well as the patient.

There are many factors to consider when the nurse interacts with a family managing a chronic illness. The nurse must consider the structure of the family and how they interact while also identifying how the family and individual with the chronic condition, manage their condition. They must identify any risk factors that may impede their ability to manage their chronic condition or protective factors that improve their abilities to self manage. An analysis of the developmental stage the family or individual along with the stage of illness they are experiencing is necessary to successfully build relationships and help guide the family through chronic illness management. Commendation of the family’s efforts and abilities to manage difficult situations revolving around illness may enhance the family’s confidence and improve self management (Wright and Leahey, 2013). These components will be explored and discussed regarding the family structure of two sisters, R.C. and J.A. R.C. has Marfan syndrome and J.A. is an active participant in helping her sister manage her condition. This family structure will be discussed in relationship to their family management style, their individual and family risk factors, and their management of R.C.’s chronic condition. Contextual components will include the lifestyle stage as defined by Wright and Leahey (2013), and the phase of chronic illness and its developmental challenges as outline by Rolland (2005). This information was collected during

Before he was diagnosed with the illness, he was very outgoing, active, and strong. They used to be a happy family who lived in New York. He was the protector but ever since he’s been sick, it has been the other way around. They had to move to Colorado to get better medical service. She still loves him but she feels as if there is a lot of weight on her shoulders. Her husband and she became emotionally drifted apart.