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Paper instructions:

(Please read the Power Point outline i attached) (Please let me know if you need any additional information to complete this assignment) 


Advocacy Training: Caring for the Caregiver

Preparation

Addressing anticipatory grief and resilience will provide a different feature of adult development coming from the perspective of a caregiver. From your textbook in first course review the stages of adult human development. Review the Healing Power of Touch discussion in Unit 4 and your own healthcare plan that you created in that unit.
Every decade adds another layer of loss “both for the aged person and the caregiver. The caregiver may have lost relationships, careers, financial security and/or a sense of personal identity. How can caregivers address their own needs at their personal stage of development (young, middle or older adulthood), while providing care that is necessary for an aged person? Does guilt enter the picture if they are caring for their own needs and meeting their life stage tasks?


Instructions

Your task for this assignment is to provide strategies for helping caregivers identify and explore ways to meet their needs. Caregivers may be children supporting parents, grandparents, aunts or uncles or spouses of those who need support. You will address loss that is personal to them, anticipatory grief of their loved one, the adult stage of development in which they reside and the tasks that are typically carried out during this time span and how they may be challenged by their role as a caregiver. Disenfranchised grief, covered in the next unit, may also be a part of this process. Caregiver needs are immeasurable and will cross generations. The caregiver may be in a different stage of life than those for whom they care.
Your focus will also include resilience and the domains of resilience (self-esteem, self-efficacy, social relationships, culture community, education, spirituality, etc.). Examine the development of coping skills for the caregivers as well as the social relationships that enhance or diminish them in their role as caregiver.

•    Use the presentation software of your choice to create 10-12 slides geared to caregivers for enhancing their own life as they care for an aging parent, spouse, or relative. Title it, "Caring for the Caretaker."


Include the following components: (When addressing this components please write in a power point from-mate with speaker's notes)
(I attached a copy of the power point out line, use it to guide you with answering the questions, outline needs components and notes)  

•    Illustrate how family systems are impacted by loss and death. 
o    Consider the caregiver's career, financial, personal, social and spiritual needs and provide research on addressing these needs.
o    Develop a visual aid for identifying needs for the caregiver you might use an ecomap, relationship chart, family matrix, etc., to enhance personal growth.
o    Choose a stage (young adulthood, middle adulthood, older adulthood) at which a caregiver could be providing care for an aging or dying individual.
o    What specific needs are present for the caregiver in their stage of life?
o    How does their stage of development impact their response to needs for self-development?
•    Apply theories of aging to explain personal adaptation of experience and transitions in older adulthood, particularly the emphasis on wellness. 
o    Examine how an individual develops coping skills over a lifetime.
o    Discuss and support relationship strategies, relevant to the caregiver's stage of life (early, middle, or late adulthood) to help encourage a broader, more effective communication with family and significant individuals.
•    Examine culture-bound syndromes and the associated potential barriers to giving and receiving assistance or services.
•    Assess the essential communication skills and interdisciplinary relationships for collaboration. 
o    Discuss and support relationship strategies to help encourage a broader, more effective communication with the older adult.
•    Apply current research to identify needs or develop resources to support for those coping with loss or bereavement. 
o    Conclude with resources that are locally available to help the caregiver to function at their stage of life with support
Important: Because you will only submit your slide deck for this assessment and will not deliver the presentation, ensure that all the required content listed above is contained within your slide deck in the visual portion of the slides and in the required speaker's notes. The effectiveness of any professional presentation depends primarily on your ability to communicate. Therefore, be sure to use the speaker notes section of each presentation slide to explain the details.