While loving and encouraging was also thought helpful, me said it’s best to try to understand where the person you care for ‘is coming from.’ Being optimistic, tolerant.
Some said ‘just being with them’ or having ‘someone to talk to’ was what people needed.
Several carers accompanied their relative to places to support them if they have been anxious about social situations. If they didn’t live in very similar house as the person they cared for, carers kept in regular touch to double check if ‘everything is OK’.
I, -I just think, By the way I do it out of love for him and I would have always done it whether I got a penny or not but, -and I don’t claim a carers’ allowance. When the person being cared for was in hospital or residential care, lots of carers spent time visiting them, bringing appropriate food, doing their laundry or buying clothes.
He gives me his money since he’s very conscious that I do, -nowadays I do all his shopping.
I really don’t look for his money.
Not that I look for it weighed up. I believe how will I weigh up every now and again that I spend on him?
i, -I suppose it’s in my conscience really, and because of the new legislations, or new ways of working, I’m always aware that it would look awful by agencies that I don’t have time to do proper accounts.
Sometimes when professionals only see those sort of people for consultation for five, ten minutes, they, By the way I wonder whether they see this wonderful person and the personality, you know behind it.
As long as I’ve, lots of effort to be made, I mean not anybody giving up on anyone really, you know, come across people with mental health problems and, underneath their psychosis or whatever it’s, I’m talking about schizophrenia mainly, -but there’s this nice person there with love, understanding, wish, desires. Hereafter I think, you know, they’re giving up on this person.