A specialised portal created to care for home carers - They will find help, knowledge and support there.
Each of us may find ourselves in a situation where we are faced with the decision to care for a sick loved one. It could be a parent who needs it due to old age, it could sometimes be a sibling who is fighting a battle with cancer or a partner in their prime who has suddenly suffered a stroke or had an accident. We never know when we will become a carer for someone who is ill at home. It is estimated that home carers account for 2 million people in Poland. Very often they find themselves in the situation of a carer overnight, when a loved one has to be taken away from hospital. What then? How do they cope without knowledge and experience. Where should they look for help and reliable information? Care specialists have come up with a solution to these difficulties and have created a portal - a comprehensive compendium of knowledge for home carers.
According to data from the "Good Dying Report", as many as 62% respondents declare that they would like to spend the end of their life at home. We ourselves, as their relatives, even subconsciously know this and therefore often take on this responsibility, usually without adequate preparation. For home carers, palliative care specialists have therefore created a place online where they can find expert knowledge and support. The portal nearchorego.pl is an indispensable resource for anyone who has ever been faced with the need to care for a chronically ill person at home and needs practical solutions developed by specialist practitioners: a doctor, nurse, medical carer, physiotherapist, dietician and psychologist.
Thrown in at the deep end and left to fend for themselves
"The insufficient number of professional caregivers available means that 80% of all people caring for sick people at home are family or home caregivers. Relatives of the sick do not know where to turn for help, what services or forms of care are available, how to deal with many situations. Home carers live under permanent stress. In addition to their confusion, lack of knowledge and caring skills, they are burdened with the additional burden of buying medicines and equipment to care for the sick. They suffer from a lack of time, and often have to give up or cut back on their livelihood jobs." - says Maria Wieczorek, co-founder and one of the editors of the portal nearchorego.pl. "This is why, out of concern for chronically ill people living at home and their relatives, we have created the online helper - a place of specialised support for home carers. We are committed to education in caring for the sick, with particular emphasis on the important role of the loved ones around the sick person, their attentiveness to the needs of the sick person while respecting their autonomy, whatever the condition they are in." - he adds.
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