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Protect your health while caring for a loved one with dementia. This course helps you recognize caregiver burnout early, set realistic limits, and build the support systems you need to continue caring without sacrificing your physical or mental well-being.
What You'll Learn:
- Identify early warning signs of caregiver burnout
- Understand why dementia caregiving is uniquely demanding
- Set boundaries without guilt
- Ask for and accept help effectively
- Protect your physical and emotional health
- Plan ahead for increasing care needs and major transitions
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In this course, you learn how to recognize, prevent, and recover from caregiver burnout while caring for a loved one with dementia. Through short, practical lessons, you assess your own limits, build a support system, apply daily self-care strategies, and create a realistic long-term care plan.
Topics Covered:
- What caregiver burnout is and why it happens
- Emotional, physical, and mental risks of chronic caregiving
- Recognizing personal limits and care capacity
- Building practical, emotional, and professional support systems
- Daily self-care and stress-reduction strategies
- Sleep protection and health maintenance
- Long-term planning for progressive dementia
- When and how to consider professional or facility care
- Financial, legal, and future life planning
Who Is This Course For?
This course is designed for family caregivers of people with dementia who are feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, or at risk of burnout—or who want to prevent burnout before it occurs. It is especially helpful for spouses, adult children, and close relatives providing ongoing care at home.
- 5 compact, actionable lessons
- Practical guidance tailored to real-life dementia caregiving
- Suitable for self-paced learning and easy integration into daily life
