Zoo. Collaboration
What precipitates change? When is "taking matters into your own hands" the only feasible option?
Many situations heighten our awareness of the need for customized tools to provide non-disease-specific support for men in caregiving roles.
The ITN ("In Their Names") Men's Caregiver Support Group program attempts to establish do-able face-to-face large-group meeting agendas in a man-think world. It also addresses the need for small-group participation in the mutual delivery of support, which is really just an application of individual caregivers needing to feel supported. Nine out of ten women agree their man needs help! (bogus statistic, ha!)
Look at MLBerg's ITN blog. Efforts are expended for minimizing sensitivities to markers and labels that people put on us as we take on additional caregiving responsibilities. The most vulnerable time for needing support often comes when it is least available .
Recent ****ITN Instructions – Program files***** (1 Agenda, 2 Presenter Notes, 3 Facilitator Notes, 4 Program Coordinator Notes) are down-loadable here. These are templates (qualities really) which could attract a neophyte into an open ITN forum in your area so he could feel supported.
The Caregiver Manual blog: http://caregivermanual.blog.com/ epitomizes the zeal to keep ITN support a "non-disease-specific" mission. Sources for insight remain fairly anonymous.
We won't help anyone who can't accept the dictum that change may be required. Human beings don't change the way things are...only shed new light on the way things are perceived to be. As caregivers we must do the best we can.
Activity often follows funding in the top-down approach. Who gives the funding and what do they expect for near-term relief? The long-term effect of exclusively dispensing support for caregiving efforts of non-geriatric health considerations only in disease-specific modes drove the ITN to initiate a different approach. This is in template form but the essential mechanisms are complete.
Anticipate that those wearing blinding concerns of "one health care issue" will not see value in inclusiveness. As such the ITN program will not make sense for anyone who doesn't see themselves as part of a larger picture (social philosophy). When caregivers keep delaying giving care and putting off getting support for caregiving until becoming "old codgers" we become recalcitrant to demands which will not go away. Consequences are self-explanatory.
We may not have the level of education deemed essential to be called Health Care Professionals but don't let that stop us from improving our caregiving experiences. The network of resources not written in HCP-speak are aimed at providing support to front-line witnesses of persons needing increased care-receipt. Try to imagine how others must feel when given the same opportunity to become caregivers: lost, abandoned, neglected, confused.
Review the Caregiver's Manual for Men. Become satisfied. The best we can do is the best we could do.
Many situations heighten our awareness of the need for customized tools to provide non-disease-specific support for men in caregiving roles.
The ITN ("In Their Names") Men's Caregiver Support Group program attempts to establish do-able face-to-face large-group meeting agendas in a man-think world. It also addresses the need for small-group participation in the mutual delivery of support, which is really just an application of individual caregivers needing to feel supported. Nine out of ten women agree their man needs help! (bogus statistic, ha!)
Look at MLBerg's ITN blog. Efforts are expended for minimizing sensitivities to markers and labels that people put on us as we take on additional caregiving responsibilities. The most vulnerable time for needing support often comes when it is least available .
Recent ****ITN Instructions – Program files***** (1 Agenda, 2 Presenter Notes, 3 Facilitator Notes, 4 Program Coordinator Notes) are down-loadable here. These are templates (qualities really) which could attract a neophyte into an open ITN forum in your area so he could feel supported.
The Caregiver Manual blog: http://caregivermanual.blog.com/ epitomizes the zeal to keep ITN support a "non-disease-specific" mission. Sources for insight remain fairly anonymous.
We won't help anyone who can't accept the dictum that change may be required. Human beings don't change the way things are...only shed new light on the way things are perceived to be. As caregivers we must do the best we can.
Activity often follows funding in the top-down approach. Who gives the funding and what do they expect for near-term relief? The long-term effect of exclusively dispensing support for caregiving efforts of non-geriatric health considerations only in disease-specific modes drove the ITN to initiate a different approach. This is in template form but the essential mechanisms are complete.
Anticipate that those wearing blinding concerns of "one health care issue" will not see value in inclusiveness. As such the ITN program will not make sense for anyone who doesn't see themselves as part of a larger picture (social philosophy). When caregivers keep delaying giving care and putting off getting support for caregiving until becoming "old codgers" we become recalcitrant to demands which will not go away. Consequences are self-explanatory.
We may not have the level of education deemed essential to be called Health Care Professionals but don't let that stop us from improving our caregiving experiences. The network of resources not written in HCP-speak are aimed at providing support to front-line witnesses of persons needing increased care-receipt. Try to imagine how others must feel when given the same opportunity to become caregivers: lost, abandoned, neglected, confused.
Review the Caregiver's Manual for Men. Become satisfied. The best we can do is the best we could do.