Try: Due to the demanding nature of caregiving caregivers often will need a break from the Care recipient (cr) getting help is essential for your health and your resilience is critical for the cr respite care provides short term breaks that relieve stress restore energy and promote balance in your life seeking support and maintaining one’s own health are key to managing caregiving using respite care before you become exhausted isolated or overwhelmed is important respite can take many forms but boils down to sharing the responsibility for caregiving and getting support for yourself make an effort to find the right balance before a caregiver can take a break it is important to appropriately prepare for alternative care one must analyze the cr’s needs and plan ahead information references helpguide org

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*This information is listed as a Fact Sheet and is not explicitly medically licensed