Home Based Women Carer’s Of Persons With Dementia: Wellbeing Through Skillware - Capacity Building A Practice In Social Work.
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 1
Abstract
The objective of this paper is to portray the skill set required in care labour at home based care. Home based care is evolving in urban and rural India, prominently in Kerala. This article is drafted in the light of Global action plan draft on the public health response to dementia (2016) Action area five mentions about action for "supporting the carers". Home based care is emerging in India like West. Educating informal carer's to inculcate skill based practice in care process is the supportive education among dementia informal carer's which has to be promoted all over India. Skill acquisition and sustainability in the effective caring process are needed for well-being of carers of person's with Dementia. The care industry is upcoming in present scenario in India with some expectation on skilful being in the care process of non-communicable disease like dementia. The motivated carers are obligatory because the longevity of ageing population is growing rapidly with mounting up of noncommunicable disease. This fading health situation is evitable in the greying population where remedies must be sought through elderly friendly policies. The incidence of dementia is drastically increasing in developing countries like India. Mostly the women are vulnerable to be the carer in the family system which can be traced specifically in an Indian setting. So it is evitable that the home based women informal carers must put on skill ware to render continuous and optimum care for their care recipients (persons with dementia). Skillware is putting on skills. Some of the skills-ware for informal/family careers are problem-solving, decision making, creative thinking, critical thinking, effective communication, interpersonal relationship, empathy, selfawareness, coping with stress, managing emotions. Each skill answers what, who, why, when, where, How. The adoption these skills will help the careers to grow effective with care industry. Skills assist carers of a person with dementia to effectively present themselves in care practice/ labour.
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Sam Sangeeth . G,
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