Mental Health

These perks and benefits are critical to keeping paid caregivers healthy

Nurses surveyed in 2021 said the most common reason they planned to leave their job was that work had negatively affected their health and well-being. The second most common reason was insufficient staffing. Here's why it's important to provide care for them and what some are doing to make sure they get it.

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Estas ventajas y beneficios son fundamentales para mantener saludables a los cuidadores remunerados

Las enfermeras encuestadas en 2021 dijeron que la razón más común por la que planeaban dejar su trabajo era que el trabajo había afectado negativamente su salud y bienestar. La segunda razón más común fue la falta de personal. He aquí por qué es importante brindarles atención y lo que algunos están haciendo para asegurarse de que la reciban.

Caregiving and mental health: ‘Overload in every sense of the word’

The pressure of being a caregiver become more common. AARP estimates the number of unpaid caregivers – roughly one of every five adults – has grown nearly 25% during the last half-decade, to about 50 million people.

Los cuidadores y la salud mental: una ‘sobrecarga en todos los sentidos’

La presión de ser un cuidador se vuelve más común. AARP estima que la cantidad de cuidadores no remunerados, aproximadamente uno de cada cinco adultos, ha aumentado casi un 25 % durante la última media década, a alrededor de 50 millones de personas.¿Qué soluciones pueden aliviar los múltiples peajes que pagan los cuidadores?

Young caregivers need more support. There’s an app for that.

 The average age of a caregiver is 49, but about 24% of adult unpaid caregivers — almost 13 million Americans — are 18 to 34, according to a 2020 report issued by the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP. And that doesn’t include another 5.4 million adolescents who are unpaid caregivers. They say caregiving has taken a toll on their mental or physical health, or both. 

CAREGIVING RESOURCES

These resources can help caregivers find the help they need.

Kelsey Harness, social services coordinator for Kalamazoo Public Safety's new Community Service Team, looks around a wooded area where unhoused people  camped until recently east of downtown Kalamazoo.
Kalamazoo Public Safety’s Community Service Team looks to build relationships with the unhoused

KDPS Sgt. Amil Alwan says Public Safety doesn’t have all the answers to homelessness or how to address those suffering from mental health, substance abuse, and other issues. But officers say, “If we build the connections with the community services providers that we have in this area, we can have a unit that can have a hand-off with those other services to help do long-term solutions to these issues.”

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