Highlighting Different Aspects of Formal Caregiving by Aiden Smith

The Different Faces of Formal Caregiving

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Benefits of and Supports for Formal Caregiving

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Current Issues and Anxieties In Formal Care

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Beliefs and Theories of Formal Caregiving

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Home Health Aides

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Home health aides perform caregiving services in the care recipient's household in that their duties are to ensure the recipient's house is in order, medically monitor the patient through collecting information such as blood pressure and temperature to ensure the recipient is in a fair condition, and to guide the recipient through life scenarios such as giving transportation when needed or giving emotional support (Kormunteza, 2022).

Registered Nursing Home Nurses

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Registered nursing home nurses provide care for elderly adults by creating a plan for medical care for the recipient, giving procedures according to what the recipient needs at the moment, and being in contact with family or community members related to the recipient to let them know of the care the recipient is getting as well as if there is anything else the recipient needs (Koglin,2024).

Virtual Caregivers

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Virtual caregivers support care recipients as they primarily help the caregiver by assessing how they are emotionally and also reminding them through having virtual appointments to take care of themselves by asking if they took their medication or if they did other objectives that are essential to the recipient's care (Clark,2023).

Hospice Caregivers

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Hospice caregivers provide assistance to the elderly as they help a care recipient cope through the end of life process through helping them understand death in a spiritual sense, complying with the recipient's final wishes if they have any, as well as taking care of them through giving personal care to the recipient such as bathing and feeding (What is a Hospice Caregiver Job Description, 2021).

Benefit of Formal Caregiving: Adaptive Hours

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A benefit of formal caregiving, particularly in nursing facilities and in some cases for home care as well, is that people can have adaptive schedules so that if a person does not want to or cannot have the same schedule every day, a career in formal caregiving can provide the flexibility that someone wants or needs (What are the benefits of senior caregiving, 2022).

Benefit of Formal Caregiving: Fostering Connections and Gives A Sense of Purpose

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A benefit of formal caregiving is that being a caregiver allows for one to have a deep and meaningful relationship with the care recipient by spending time with him or her and helping him or her immensely and it also gives a significant sense of meaning as the caregiver knows every day that he or she is making a powerful difference to the care recipient and in some ways, the community (What are the benefits of senior caregiving, 2022).

Supports for Formal Caregiving: Many Training Options

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One support for formal caregivers is having vast amounts of resources at their disposal to help them not only with training to effectively perform in their position but also for dilemmas that may come up in care such as memory training care if a person's care recipient is struggling in their memory functioning (Doyle, 2024).

Supports for Formal Caregiving: Team Support to Help the Caregiver Grow

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Another support for a formal caregiver is having a team present that one can rely on emotionally as well as logistically if he or she needs any help with his or her caregiving duties or processing the strain that sometimes caregiving can pose (What is it like to work in an assisted living facility, 2024).

Caregiving Current Issue Headline: Shortage of Home Health Aides is Making People Who Want to Stay at Home Go into Assisted Living

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In the article, A Shortage of Health Aides is Forcing out Those Who Wish to Get Care at Home, the story touches upon how due to the understaffing crisis of at-home caregivers and how those who are staffed cannot reasonably provide for many recipients, many care recipients who are able or who want to reside in their permanent residence have to move to a facility in spending more money and making more sacrifices to receive proper caregiving services (Krebs, 2022).

Caregiving Current Issue Headline: There is an increase demand for hospice care due to hospitals trying to push patients toward hospice care.

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In the article, 'You're not God': Doctors and patient families say HCA hospitals push hospice care, it touches on how hospice care levels are rising dramatically because HCA-associated hospitals are increasingly transferring patients to hospice care facilities so hospice caregivers can take care of them for these types of hospitals to continue to have low mortality rates (Morgenson, 2023).

Anxieties in Formal Care: Physical Stress

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One anxiety of formal care can be having anxiety in completing tasks that require a lot of physical elements as in caregiving one is required to often lift or assist the patient in mobility in some way, which if the caregiver is insecure about his or her physical strength this can be a major stressor for him or her (What is it like to work in an assisted living facility, 2024).

Anxiety in Formal Care: Emotional Stress

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Another anxiety in formal care a caregiver finds his or herself having is emotional anxiety as due to him or her being constantly responsible for both the physical and emotional needs of the recipient, the caregiver might feel overwhelmed by being constantly on high alert (What is it like to work in an assisted living facility, 2024).

Beliefs and Theories of Formal Caregiving: Formal Caregivers Choose to Assume a Formal Caregiver Role

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A tenet of formal caregiving is that people who are formal caregivers are in the positions that they are and continue to assume those positions because they want to be in those positions and not because of any coercion or force by anybody in particular (Kietzman et. al, 2013, p.4).

Beliefs and Theories of Formal Caregiving: Formal Caregivers Go into Formal Caregiving for Reasons Other than Finance

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Another theory of formal caregiving is that formal caregivers are inspired to go into caregiving in the first place not for the reasons of gaining profit but rather because they want to serve the community and make a meaningful impact (Kietzman et. al, 2013, p.4).

Beliefs and Theories of Formal Caregiving: Education is Key to be a Confident and a Successful Formal Caregiver

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A belief about formal caregiving is that having sufficient knowledge about their caregiving tasks is what leads for people in formal caregiving to stay in their caregiving role and not be subjected to feelings of burden or overwhelming stress (From et. al, 2015, p.2).

Beliefs and Theories of Formal Caregiving: How a caregiver feels about their job is sometimes a function of how they feel about their associates.

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A core theory of formal caregiving is that if one feels dissatisfied with his or her job, it is at times due to feeling resentment or disappointment with his or her colleagues in feeling like his or her colleagues are not lending the support that they should in a given situation (From et. al, 2015, p. 7).