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As a Carer you'll watch me do things and instantly judge me for them, you'll look down your nose and see me as nothing more than someone that deals with other people's body fluids and makes cups of tea.

You'll wonder why I can walk out of a room and instantly into another, forgetting that I may have promised your relative a blanket or a cup of water because I was "distracted" by someone else.

You'll wonder why I've walked past your relatives room and not entered theirs, you'll wonder why some people are attended to sooner and you'll curse my name under your breath as they wait.

You'll wonder how I seem to have time to sit down and write and wonder why I cannot fix things immediately.

You'll wonder how, under any circumstance, I could be sharing a smile or a laugh with a co-worker as if laughter has no place.

As I walk in for my shift, you'll look at me, your eyes saying that you want me to help and you'll wonder why I can't just make that happen.

But here's what, if you're very lucky, you'll never see.

You'll never see me lose. You'll never see me take off my sweaty gloves and say a goodbye to someone I've cared for for months or even years

You'll never see the weight that we carry home. For minutes or hours, days, or weeks, or even lifetimes.

You'll never see our children's faces as we kiss them goodbye on Christmas morning so that we can make it a special day for your family member.

You'll never see the deep breath we take as we walk into a room to prepare a loved one before family enter to say their last goodbye.

You'll never see our hearts ache with the pain for those we have nursed and passed and those that continue to battle.

You'll never see our minds as they tirelessly overthink and overwork scenarios, wondering how or if we could do something better next time.

You'll never see us break the news that someone's husband or wife, that they have been married to for 50 plus years has died because they have forgotten again, you'll never see us comfort them as they cry.

You'll never know the fear we faced everyday during the waves of pandemic and never understand the frustration of full PPE when all we want to do is smile at your loved one. Tirelessly washing hands and changing gloves, swearing under plastic aprons and facemasks in the summer heat.

And for the most part, I'm okay that you can't see those things. It's my job to do, my burden to carry, and my labor of love and service so that you don't have to, so that the relationship you have remains as it always has been, so that you don't have to become their Carer. I'll take on that role for you.

However, I'll be honest, there are times that I wish you could understand the alternative to your relative that's waiting. There are times I wish you understood the difference between urgency and emergency. And there are certainly times that I wish I could be transparent enough to tell you when your relative dies it breaks our hearts too.

If you know, or love a Carer please do me a favor and just give them a hug. Or maybe a fist bump if hugging isn't their thing, or maybe even just a nod of approval but more anything please remember were more than just bottom cleaners and tea makers.

We're working as hard and as fast as we can, and most days, it's never enough, especially through covid.

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Why and How to Avoid Therapeutic Lying to People with Memory Loss It can feel challenging to connect with a loved one with memory loss. Some caregivers use therapeutic lying, or "white lies," to make communication easier. This article explains why you should avoid that tactic and what to do instead.

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DEMENTIA: SLEEP AND SLEEP ROUTINES

Sleep is essential to good physical and mental health and well-being. Sleep also plays an important role in memory and learning. Research suggests that sleep helps you to store new memories in the brain over time. Sleep can also help with “cognitive” processes (for example, thinking and problem-solving).

There are many reasons why you might have trouble getting to sleep or find that your sleep pattern varies. If you have trouble sleeping, the following suggestions may help.

Set the alarm for the same time every morning and get up when it goes off. Do this whether or not you feel you have had a good night’s sleep. It will help your body to develop a regular sleep pattern.
Being more active and going outside during daylight can help.
Avoid long daytime naps. If you do need one, keep it to 30 minutes at most and no later in the day than early afternoon.
Avoid tea, coffee, cola and cocoa from lunchtime onwards. These are stimulants and can keep you awake. Try caffeine-free varieties.
Avoid eating a heavy meal or drinking too much fluid in the evening. Digesting a meal can keep you awake, or you might wake up to go to the toilet.
Do not drink alcohol before going to bed.
Try not to do anything that needs a lot of physical or mental energy - such as going for a run or Sudoku - during the hour before you go to bed. Your body and mind will still be awake when you go to bed.
Wait until you are sleepy before you lie down to go to sleep. Make sure the room is at a comfortable temperature and not too bright.
Keep your bedroom just for sleeping or s*x. Do not use electronic devices, such as the television, radio, phone or tablet device, in the bedroom. Try not to eat or read in bed.
When you go to bed, turn the light off.
If you do not fall asleep within about 10 minutes, get up and go to another room if it is safe to do this. You may wish to use a night-light. Do something relaxing in the other room and only go back to bed when you feel sleepy. You may find that you have to do this more than once a night.

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You can contact us by phone: 07551491119, by e-mail: [email protected] or in the web: www.theolivetreecare.com

Personal care | The Olive Tree Care | Frome, dementia support at home Domiciliary care in Frome (Somerset), The Olive Tree Care supports you in your own home with your daily routines, needs and hobbies.

AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE BRAIN

1.Signs of successful brain surgeries go as far back as the Stone Age.

2.The brain can not feel pain. It interprets pain signals sent to it, but it does not feel pain.

3.The brain comprises 60% of fat and is one of the fattest organs in the human body.

4.Nearly all colours have a physical wavelength associated with it, but the colour Magenta does not. Rather, your brain is simply processing the colour as “not green”.

5.You can actually improve your memory If you choose to eat seafood regularly. The fatty acids in these foods improve the memory storing parts of your brain.

6.During sleep, your body produces a hormone that prevents you from getting up and acting out your dreams. Five minutes after a dream, your body has already forgotten half of it and ten minutes later it is 90% gone from your memory.

7.Human experience 70,000 thoughts each day.

8.Your brain generates about 12-25 watts of electricity. This is enough to power a low wattege LED light bulb.

9.Brain surgery can be performed while the patient is awake with no pain or discomfort. The brain has not pain receptors and feels no pain.

10.The attention spans of human brains are getting shorter. We have lost four seconds of our attention span in the past 15 years. This means we cannot concentrate on one thing for more than eight seconds on an average.

11.Your brain is sometimes more active when you are asleep than when you are awake.

12.The human brain has a memory capacity which is the equivalent of more than four terabytes hard drive.

13.A single human brain generates more electrical impulses in a day than all the telephones of the world combined.

14.The average person forgets 90% of their dreams.

15.By the end of a person’s life, they can recall, on average, around 150 trillion pieces of information.

16.A passionate kiss causes the same chemical reactions in the brain that skydiving and firing a gun do.

100,000 chemical reactions occur in the human brain every second.

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Personal care | The Olive Tree Care | Frome, dementia support at home Domiciliary care in Frome (Somerset), The Olive Tree Care supports you in your own home with your daily routines, needs and hobbies.

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SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF ABUSE

Abuse can often show as physical effects and symptoms. These are likely to be accompanied by emotional signs and changes in behaviour, but this is not always the case. Any behaviour changes could indicate that the person is a victim of some form of abuse, but remember that they are only an indicator and will need to be linked to other factors to arrive at a complete picture.

Physical abuse includes:

- hitting
- slapping
- pushing
- pinching
- force feeding
- kicking
- burning
- Scalding
- misuse of medication or restraint
- catheterisation for the convenience of staff
- inappropriate sanctions
- a carer causing illness or injury to someone in order to gain attention for themselves (this might be associated with a condition called fabricated and induced illness, or FILL)
- refusing access to toilet facilities.
- leaving people in wet or soiled clothing or bedding.

Potential indicators of physical abuse include the following. Any of these factors are not evidence of abuse - they are a warning indicator only.

- multiple bruising or finger marks (especially in well-protected areas such as eye sockets, inner arms or thighs).
- fractures - especially twisting fractures - and dislocations - especially when accompanied with bruising or finger marks.
- scratches or cuts.
- pressure ulcers and sores or rashes from wet bedding/clothing.
- black eyes or bruised ears.
- welt marks - especially on the back or buttocks.
- scalds or cigarette burns.
- a history of unexplained minor falls or injuries or a history of accidental overdoses/poisoning.
- explanations not consistent with the injuries.
- clinical interventions without any clear benefit to the person.
- deterioration of health without obvious cause.
- loss of weight.
- inappropriate, inadequate or soiled clothing.
- withdrawal or mood changes.
- carer’s resistance to allowing people to visit.
- reluctance by the vulnerable adult to be alone wit the alleged abuser.

Risk factors

Some of the factors that are known to contribute to the risk of harm and abuse of adults by family and friend carers are:

- poor communication between supported person and carer - this could be because of a medical condition or a social/relationship issue.
- challenging behaviour by the supported person.
- carer being young or immature.
- carer feeling unable to carry on.
- strong feeling of frustration on the part of the carer.
- carer and supported person having a history of a troubled relationship.
- carer having alcohol or drug dependency.
- carer believing that the cared-for person is being deliberately difficult or ungrateful.
- caring role not having been taken on willingly.
- carer having had to make major lifestyle changes.
- carer having more than one caring responsibility - for example young children and an older relative.
- supported person being violent towards the carer.
- carer having disturbed sleep.
- carer and supported person being socially isolated.
- financial or housing pressures.
- delays or insufficient resources to provide adequate support.
- isolated older people without family support or contact - particularly in relation to financial abuse.

And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games and learned new ways of being.

And were still.

And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced, some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently.

And the people healed.

And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless and heartless ways.

The earth began to heal.

And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed.

( Kitty O'Meara, retired teacher from Wisconsin, in an attempt and effort to curb her own anxieaty amid the Covid-19 pandemic)

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WHAT IS MEANT BY DISCRIMINATION

Discrimination is the result of unequal or excluding behaviour. It describes the disadvantage that people experience because of being unfairly treated or being excluded from society. People can be refused access to society, services, employment or education because of discrimination. Racial discrimination has some very famous examples such as the apartheid regime in South Africa and the segregation Laws in the southern states of America.

WHAT IS MEANT BY DISCRIMINATION
Discrimination is the result of unequal or excluding behaviour. It describes the disadvantage that people experience because of being unfairly treated or being excluded from society. People can be refused access to society, services, employment or education because of discrimination. Racial discrimination has some very famous examples such as the apartheid regime in South Africa and the segregation Laws in the southern states of America.

Discrimination on the basis of disability can be found in many places where disabled people have no access or are required to use a different entrance to non-disabled people. Education can often be difficult to access because the necessary support may not be available.

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Gender discrimination is still evident. Although the situation has improved considerably in the past 10 years, women’s earnings are still around 20 cent less than men’s and there are still fewer women in senior positions. For example, out of 650 Members of Parliament, only 143 were women following the 2010 election. A report from the World Economic Forum looking at 600 companies across 20 countries showed that fewer than 5 per cent had women chief executives. Out of the top 100 companies in the UK, only 12 per cent of board members are women. In the public sector, women make up 65 per cent of the workforce, but only 30 per cent of senior management and 21 per cent of Chief Executives.

It is easy to apply the same principles to a job. Someone who has impaired vision or is in a wheelchair can do a job, as well, or perhaps better, than someone who’d be able-bodied, provided they are allowed the opportunity. That means removing physical barriers such as steps or narrow doorways, and installing equipment that allows someone with impaired vision to “read” documents.

Discrimination on the basis of disability can be found in many places where disabled people have no access or are required to use a different entrance to non-disabled people. Education can often be difficult to access because the necessary support may not be available.

Gender discrimination is still evident. Although the situation has improved considerably in the past 10 years, women’s earnings are still around 20 cent less than men’s and there are still fewer women in senior positions. For example, out of 650 Members of Parliament, only 143 were women following the 2010 election. A report from the World Economic Forum looking at 600 companies across 20 countries showed that fewer than 5 per cent had women chief executives. Out of the top 100 companies in the UK, only 12 per cent of board members are women. In the public sector, women make up 65 per cent of the workforce, but only 30 per cent of senior management and 21 per cent of Chief Executives.

It is easy to apply the same principles to a job. Someone who has impaired vision or is in a wheelchair can do a job, as well, or perhaps better, than someone who’d be able-bodied, provided they are allowed the opportunity. That means removing physical barriers such as steps or narrow doorways, and installing equipment that allows someone with impaired vision to “read” documents.

AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE MOUTH

1.Without saliva, we would not be able to taste anything.

2.The inside of your mouth contains as many bacterias as there are people in Earth.

3.No two people have the same set of teeth. A person’s teeth are as unique as their fingerprint.

4.Teeth, like your bones, are alive. They have their own blood supply and nerves. A tooth can die.

5.Your mouth produces about one litre of saliva each day.

6.Human teeth are just as strong as shark teeth.

7.Teeth are the only part of the human body which cannot heal themselves.

8.99% of the calcium contained in the human body is in one’s teeth.

9.Human lips are hundreds of times more sensitive than the tips of a person’s fingers.