Tips To Enhance Self-Care When a Loved One Needs Subacute Nursing Care

If a loved one has suffered an injury or illness that requires rehab following a hospital stay, you shift your focus and energy to ensuring their well-being. To be the best caretaker possible, you may even change your daily routine. Throughout this process, it is easy to lose sight of your own needs. Without self-care, your health and quality of life can suffer in ways that negatively affect your loved one.

Self-care is always important, but especially so when taking care of a loved one. Self-care helps you set boundaries, resets mind and body, creates a better relationship with yourself and with others, and makes everyday life better.

Using these tips can help you enhance your self-care, which can improve the care you provide.

1. Determine what self-care means to you

There is no right or wrong way to practice self-care. One person might define self-care as taking a bubble bath, for example, while another might define it as going for a walk to connect with nature.

2. Schedule time for yourself

Knowing your loved one is being well cared for in a post-acute rehab facility makes it easier to schedule time for yourself. When you’re not visiting your loved one, make sure you are reserving time for your own self-care, whether you plan something small every day or once a week. Do something you enjoy, such as writing in a journal, meditating, exercising or spending time with friends.

3. Live healthy

• Eat nutritious meals.
• Get at least 30 minutes of moderate physical exercise daily.
• Maintain good hygiene.

4. Set goals

Think about the things you hope to achieve in life, and set reasonable goals that lead you there. Take a class, for example, or join a club.

5. Include your loved one in your self-care

Wait to participate in your daily exercises until you are together, for example, or schedule time to sit with your loved one at the salon in the post-acute facility. If you enjoy reading, consider reading aloud to your loved one when you visit. Including your loved one can make your self-care a family activity.

6. Trust the professionals

Patients who need 24/7 nursing and therapeutic rehab services receive optimal care from skilled nurses and physicians who specialize in caring for their needs. Diamondback Healthcare Center provides a healing environment that supports your loved one’s complete recovery.

Knowing that your loved one is receiving around-the-clock care from a skilled nursing staff in a luxury environment makes it so much easier to focus on your own health and well-being. The care your loved one gets in the top-notch memory care facility at Diamondback Healthcare Center gives you the time, confidence and security you need to take care of yourself. For more information, contact Diamondback Healthcare Center.