Powerful Tools for Caregivers is an educational program designed to help family caregivers (no professional caregivers, please). This program will help you take care of yourself while caring for a relative or friend. You will benefit from this class whether you are helping a parent, spouse, friend or someone who lives at home, in a nursing home, or across the country.
This class will give you, the family caregiver, tools to:
Help you reduce stress
Communicate effectively with other family members, your doctor, and paid help
Take care of yourself
Reduce guilt, anger, and depression
Help you relax
Make tough decisions
Set goals and problem solve
This online class includes the Caregiver help book which covers topics such as:
hiring in-home help, helping memory impaired elders, making legal and financial decisions, making decisions about care facility placement, understanding depression, and making decisions about driving.
Register online at: https://conta.cc/39kYP62 or johnson.k-state.edu Or Call: 913-715-7000
Sponsored by: K-State Research and Extension Johnson County in Partnership with Marais des Cygnes Distrist