Education
People looking after someone at home, usually with no training and no handover from anybody. Most carers learn by getting it wrong a few times, which is a bad way to learn anything that involves another person's body.
Practical things. How to help someone move without wrecking your own back. How to set a room up so that fewer things go wrong. What to watch for and when to ring somebody. How to keep track of medications when there are several and the timings matter.
And the part nobody teaches: how to keep some of your own week.
Short sessions in small groups, because carers cannot commit to a course and should not be asked to. Come to one, come to four, come once a year.
It is not clinical training and it does not qualify you for anything. It does not replace the advice of the people treating the person you care for, and where something is specific to them, the answer is their clinician, not a room.
Nothing is sold at these.
Say so. That is the most common reason carers do not come to anything, and it is worth telling us rather than quietly not attending — sometimes there is a way around it.
Ring 0410 699 065 or email marketing@rainbowcaring.com.au and ask what is running.
Disclaimer: Kindly note that results for different clients may vary. The work we do is never in isolation; it is always a team effort, including that clients work on their lifestyle choices and our treatment.