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Message: [QUOTE="diggerfoot, post: 2227790, member: 1673"] I'm not going to bump up this thread after every submission I make this month on wellness, but I would like to respond to your situation, which obviously is similar to mine. The wellness pyramid would be beneficial to anyone, but it was designed specifically with caregivers in mind. [URL='http://www.humanityhiker.com/wellness-pyramid-contentment/']This next post on Contentment[/URL] may be particularly relevant. The last six months for my Mom, the months she spent in a nursing home, were the toughest for me. I had no regrets that after caring for her under our roof for almost five years she spent those last six months in a nursing home. Yet watching her will to live deteriorate in a nursing home was tougher emotionally than caring for her. I learned from that experience, plus I know much more about brain health now. Brain health, emotional health, life expectancy, they all are correlated, they all depend on quality of life factors. The wellness pyramid can help a caregiver prioritize, plan and pursue what needs to be done to be able to keep a loved one at home while maintaining the highest possible quality of life for both caregiver and patient. Over the past fifteen years the percentage of people with dementia dying at home has doubled, up to 25% now. Maybe that's because of economics, maybe that's because of greater resources and information to make that happen. In either case it's a trend likely to continue. Yet we tend to be what people perceive and insist us to be. If it's insisted that being a caregiver for a loved one is a burdensome thing, then a burden is certainly what it will be, with a greater risk that the caregiver will be afflicted with dementia as well. The wellness pyramid, and my blog in general, provides an alternative view for caregivers. [/QUOTE]

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