Care Homes- How To Dealt With Difficult Parent
After a certain time difficult parent need Care Homes. In care home they find people who are of same age. From them they can share their thoughts, experience. There are some intricacies, which gives a definition to difficult parent. They are- attention seeking, demanding, complaining, criticize you at extreme level, does not care about health. They get frustrated frequently. Members of family don't know how to treat or deal with them. Care homes staff aware about how to deal with them. They know the trick how to refresh elder's mood.
Your parents raised you up when you are a kid and made you what you are today. So it is your responsibility or duty to provide them as much care as possible. If you are available for that, then it is better, but if you are not there, then you should give them a caregiver who is able to give them such kind of care.
How staff of Care Homes deal with them-
Communication is the solution of all worries. They provide such type of environment to the elders. At home you are not able to spend time with them and it creates a communication gap but in care homes they have same age person so they can easily share anything with them.
Rather than communication, there is another way that is negotiation. You have to show them other side of coin, so they can think on that. Sometime your parents make unreasonable demands like a child, that time you need this skill. But ensure them that you keep your promises. Staff of care homes has skill of negotiation. If your elders participate in any activity of care home, then they appreciate their contribution and this appreciation makes them alive.