Please respond to two discussion comment below providing detail response and feedback. Discussion Qu

Please respond to two discussion comment below providing detail response and feedback. Discussion Question One 1.The caregiving experience of adult children with a parent who has Alzheimer’s has some challenges that are often overlooked. Some of the themes I heard were that they cared for their father out of love, but they didn’t feel like it. It felt like forced labor. From a biological standpoint, caring for a parent with Alzheimer’s disease physically exhausts the caregivers. Psychologically, it can impact a person’s mental health, cause stress, and make them feel isolated. The speaker experienced feelings of loneliness and a lack of guidance when they were lost. He compared it to his boy scout experience. Despite having a case manager and various doctors, none were able to take them under their wing and lead them as Scout leaders. The speaker addresses the issue of lack of societal recognition and support for caregivers. The speaker revealed that they endured hardships and hurts, yet they managed to survive. He felt that he needed someone to help him formulate a strategy. He believes the doctor should have informed him that his father is ill and likely to die. We know it will be tough on all of you. We do know you will have to make big decisions about quality of life, but I am here to prepare the path for you. You are not alone. 2. One specific way the experience of an adult child differs from that of a spouse is that a lower percentage of adult children are caregivers than spouse caregivers. According to the US caregiver article, spouses make up 12% of the 89% of adult care for relatives, and adult children make up 6%. The difference may be because many spouse caregivers live together with their recipients, but it may not be the case for all adult child caregivers. I don’t believe gender matters because we see in Toine Heijmans’ Ted Talk “Who Cares for the Caregivers” that the speaker, his sister, and brother took an active role in caring for the father. The speaker talked about how hard it was for his sister when his father responded, “I don’t need your help; there is nothing wrong with me,” and how hard it was for him to take his father to the bathroom, pulling down his pants and trying to make him go. His brother also experienced similar difficulties when their father forgot his name. However, the article “United States for family living with dementia” states that women provide family caregiving disproportionately to patients with dementia; over 66% of all family caregivers are women, with an average age of 69.4 years, and over one-third are the patient’s daughters. 3. A social worker can intervene with resources and psychosocial support adult children, as the TED Talk speaker, by discussing options to prevent burnout when the demand exceeds their resources. A social worker can provide information about respite and explain how the definition can vary. According to the article Improving policies for caregiver respite care, “caregivers may receive respite when the care receiver attends a day program. Alternatively, a home care worker offers services that free up caregivers.” The article highlights findings from a study on respite care for caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients, indicating that many participants reported positive outcomes. These outcomes include “reduced caregiver stress and burden, decreased risk of abuse and neglect, enhanced quality of life for both caregivers and care recipients, and fewer instances of out-of-home placements (ARCH National Respite Network and Resource Center, 2014).” Therefore, it is imperative to share this information. Discussion Question Two 1. An adult child caregiving a parent with Alzheimer’s can pose many challenges. From a biopsychosocial perspective you must consider the biological, psychological and social perspective. Seeing a parents health decline can be difficult for an adult child. It causes a lot of stress and frustration especially when there is no cure to this disease. Also caring for a sick parent where you know their health will decline can take a mental toll on an individual. Caring for a parent can also affect an adult child’s social life as well. Having to care for a parent around the clock does not leave much time for any outside activities and can become isolating. 2. The caregiving experience of an adult with Alzheimer’s is different from a spouse’s perspective and a child’s perspective. Spouse’s caring for their partner with Alzheimer’s may experience high stress. It is also possible that if the couple is dependent on each other and enmeshed then the healthy spouse’s health might decline as well. For an adult child it almost becomes role reversal. I do believe gender plays a role in who care for their adult parents, but I believe that it depends on based off culture. In my culture it is the norm and expectation for the oldest daughter to take care of their parents when they are older. This expectation comes from the females in the family are meant to be more nurturing than the males. The women are more patient and caring. While I believe cultures should move away from this stigma it is still very much an expectation. I believe caring for a parent with Alzheimer’s takes help from all siblings regardless of their gender. 3. A social worker can aide adult children who are caring for a sick parent in many ways. The first way is through support, being there for the client and validating their feelings. I also believe it is important to educate the client the different stages of Alzheimer’s to help them understand it better. Another way a social worker can help the client is by going through the grieving process. There is a decline in the parent’s health and the parents you once knew are no longer present, going through the stages of grief and honoring the parent they remember can be beneficial to the client. Lastly, I would work on some coping skills. Taking care of a sick parent can cause frustration and to not get caretaker burnout it is important to teach the client coping skills and self-care routines.

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