{"id":1397,"date":"2019-12-06T15:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/touchinghearts.com\/blog\/middletn\/?p=489"},"modified":"2019-12-06T15:00:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T15:00:51","slug":"senior-care-columbia-tn-four-things-to-think-about-when-youre-avoiding-respite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/touchinghearts.com\/middletn\/blog\/senior-care-columbia-tn-four-things-to-think-about-when-youre-avoiding-respite\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Things to Think about When You\u2019re Avoiding Respite"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"block block--freeform\"><div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>It\u2019s much easier for some caregivers to <em><strong>avoid respite<\/strong><\/em> than it is to take that time. The reasons for that aren\u2019t necessarily valid, but they might feel incredibly valid to you at the time. If you\u2019ve been avoiding respite time, it helps to really examine your beliefs around taking time away and caring for yourself as well as your senior.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_493\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-493\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-493\" src=\"http:\/\/touchinghearts.com\/blog\/middletn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/bigstock-Woman-smaller-51949882-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Senior Care Columbia TN - Four Things to Think about When You\u2019re Avoiding Respite\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senior Care Columbia TN &#8211; Four Things to Think about When You\u2019re Avoiding Respite<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>Your Senior Needs a Change, Too<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not paying attention to your own needs, think some more about your senior\u2019s needs. She sometimes needs different company, too. Although you\u2019re there for her unconditionally, having a change of scenery, including people, is something that she would probably enjoy, too. And it would give you both something new to talk about later.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>How Many of You Do You Have?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not taking respite, are you at least accepting help from others? Maybe not so much. There\u2019s only one of you, most likely, unless other family members are helping out quite a bit. It\u2019s likely that you feel overwhelmed and that you\u2019re in need of a lot more help. Respite assistance can do that for you. But you have to be willing to take that risk and see what assistance can really do.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Do You Remember Your Last Break?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>When did you last take any time away? Odds are that you\u2019re a little fuzzy on those details, unless the experience was incredibly memorable and imprinted itself on your brain. It\u2019s probably been a while and if you were worried the entire time you might feel as if you can\u2019t step away now because there\u2019s no way that the result would be anything but disastrous. But you need to take breaks.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Are You Keeping Track of Your Health?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Taking a break is vital for your emotional well-being, but it can be equally important for your physical well-being. What is your own health like? If you\u2019ve got health conditions you\u2019re ignoring, you might find that you\u2019re endangering your position as a caregiver by ignoring them. Taking the best care you can of yourself ensures that you can keep being a caregiver for as long as you need to.<\/p>\n<p>Bringing in senior care providers can be a scary proposition. But what\u2019s even scarier is never taking any respite time for yourself. You can\u2019t afford to do that as a caregiver. Your senior and you will benefit more from you taking time away than you might ever believe.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/section>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>If you or an aging loved-one are considering <a href=\"https:\/\/touchinghearts.com\/middletn\/services\/personal-care\/\">Senior Care Services in Columbia TN<\/a>, please contact the caring staff at Touching Hearts at Home. Serving Middle Tennessee (Nashville, Brentwood, Bell Meade, Franklin, Spring Hill, Columbia, Pulaski, and more!) Call today: 629-203-7925. <\/strong>    <\/h4>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tSenior Care Columbia TN-When you think about respite from a logical standpoint, it just makes more sense to take the time that you need.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,35],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-senior-care-columbia-tn","category-senior-care-tips","tag-senior-care-columbia-tn"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Four Things to Think about When You\u2019re Avoiding Respite - Touching Hearts at Home of Middle Tennessee<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/touchinghearts.com\/middletn\/blog\/senior-care-columbia-tn-four-things-to-think-about-when-youre-avoiding-respite\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Four Things to Think about When You\u2019re Avoiding Respite - 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