helping | Hugo Ferreira https://hugo.ferreira.cc/tags/helping/ Recent content in Helping by Hugo Ferreira helping | Hugo Ferreira https://hugo.ferreira.cc/hf-bw.jpg https://hugo.ferreira.cc/tags/helping/ Hugo en-GB 2000–2024 by Hugo Ferreira · CC BY 4.0 Mon, 18 Dec 2023 20:45:10 +0000 💭 Providing a sense of independence in caregiving https://hugo.ferreira.cc/caregiving/ Mon, 18 Dec 2023 20:45:10 +0000 https://hugo.ferreira.cc/caregiving/ <p>Say you&rsquo;re supporting and providing for someone with reduced mobility<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup>. If you want them to maintain their sense of independence, thn focus on your response times. Make it a priority to respond to their request for help immediately (or as fast as you can).</p> <p>When they have autonomy, people experience a short time from thought to action. This is crucial to give them the sense of independence:<br> <strong>thought ➔ action</strong></p> Say you’re supporting and providing for someone with reduced mobility1. If you want them to maintain their sense of independence, thn focus on your response times. Make it a priority to respond to their request for help immediately (or as fast as you can).

When they have autonomy, people experience a short time from thought to action. This is crucial to give them the sense of independence:
thought ➔ action

Having to rely on someone else for basic stuff means that there’s now a delay on that:
thought ➔ [help] ➔ action

As a caregiver, the shorter you can make that time, the more sense of autonomy and independence you give them.

  1. Written from the point of view of a sudden strained ankle that makes me have to hop around like a Saci. ↩︎

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