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Care-giving is what you do for your loved one; giving-care is what you do for both of you.
What is Praxis Senior Care-Giving Solutions?
Praxis Senior Care-Giving Solutions is a consulting firm run by a family care-giver for family care-givers. Becoming a family care-giver changes the relationship between two independent adults into one where an independent person becomes dependent on someone else. It’s a change that is difficult for both care recipient and care-giver. Praxis’s founder and owner, Dr. Sheri L. Yarbrough uses her experience as a family care-giver to support other family care-givers as they manage the demands of caring for a loved one through her blog, her book, OMG! I’m the Grown-Up! A Conversation on Giving-Care to a Loved One…and Yourself, online workshops, and courses. Her approach to caring for a loved one centers on including the needs of care-givers into the care journey. That belief is the genesis for Praxis’s motto: care-giving is what you do for your loved one; giving-care is what you do for both of you. Becoming a family care-giver is like riding a teeter-totter, where one is constantly moving between their needs and those of a loved one.
The arrival of a loved one’s care needs creates an unexpected, fundamental life change most people don’t see coming. Eleven years of journeying through dementia with her mother taught Dr. Yarbrough three fundamental lessons:
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Caring for a loved one is a role that can make family care-givers feel out of control.
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Managing the lives of two people can be overwhelming
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Trying to do it all, all at once, all by oneself rarely works well for the family care-giver
Creating a sense of order in the presence of unexpected or disruptive life demands is a challenge many family care-givers struggle to meet. Often times, family care-givers get
completely focused on meeting their loved one’s care needs. As a result, family care-givers can overlook what they need in order continue providing care. Products at Praxis Senior Care- Giving Solutions help family care-givers set goals and create strategies for managing a loved one’s care needs while meeting their own needs.
Dr. Sheri L. Yarbrough
During Dr. Sheri L. Yarbrough's career prior to becoming a family care-giver, she developed change management strategies for educational and non-profit organizations. She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her education as a policy analyst was an invaluable tool for managing the interpersonal changes to the relationship with her mother. Dr. Yarbrough's decade long experience as a family care-giver has taught Dr. Yarbrough the importance of including herself and her needs in the care journey with her mother. Dr. Yarbrough’s ability to view a circumstance from multiple perspectives became the genesis for her Praxis for Care. The Praxis for Care is a strategy that helps family care-givers identify what they need in order to meet the needs of a loved one. The Praxis for Care is the foundation for her motto: care-giving is what you do for your loved one; giving-care is what you do for both of you. She created her business to give family care-givers a resource for navigating the demands of caring for a loved one.
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