Health & Fitness
Caregiver Burnout Syndrone
Caregivers Plan activities for the week and the day. Prioritize tasks, distinguishing the urgent from the important. Allowed a rest day or week, out of direct contact with the patient.
The caregiver syndrome burn or burn-out was first described in the United States in 1974. It consists of a deep emotional and physical experience that the person living and caring for an incurable chronic illness such as Alzheimer's disease. The caregiver can suffer is one who comes to spend most of their time (even leaving work to take care of), generally solitary (although there are other family members who "wash their hands" and stay on the periphery), for many years and passive strategies and inadequate problem solving.
It is considered produced by continued stress of chronic (not acute type a specific situation) in a daily battle against the disease with monotonous and repetitive tasks, feeling of lack of control over the final result of this work, and that psychophysical can deplete the caregiver. Includes develop negative attitudes and feelings toward the patients they cared, discouragement, depression, anxiety, psychosomatic disorders, fatigue and exhaustion not linked to stress, irritability, depersonalization and dehumanization, stereotyped behaviors with inefficiency in solving real problems, continued oppression with feelings of being overwhelmed by the situation.