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To help without forgetting oneself. the difficult balance of family caregivers

Today, one in five French people say they provide voluntary assistance to one or more loved ones who are dependent due to old age or a serious, chronic or disabling illness. Here’s what the July 2021 Caregiver Barometer conducted by the April Insurance Fund shows. And yet, 52% of these 11 million caregivers don’t see themselves as such. “In their eyes, what they do is a ‘natural’ moral duty to a husband, father or mother.” explains Cindy Melier, a psychologist specializing in the aging clinic.

All too often, therefore, we slip into the shoes of a caregiver without envisioning the conditions for that support or thinking about the consequences it will have on our life, health, or relationship with a loved one. “It is very difficult to predict how we will help a person who is close to us but different from us in the future, emphasizes Dr. Philip Thomas, a psychiatrist. Also, there is resistance to this help. What…

Source: Le Figaro

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