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Looking After Ourselves. Colleen Sheen, Carers NSW Carers NSW 2011 Biennial Conference Sydney March 2011. Looking After Ourselves. Kevin Duncan 09. Looking After Ourselves. Is a train the trainer program for Aboriginal carers and service providers - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Looking After Ourselves
Colleen Sheen, Carers NSWCarers NSW 2011 Biennial
ConferenceSydney March 2011
Looking After
Ourselves
Kevin Duncan 09
Looking After Ourselves
• Is a train the trainer program for Aboriginal carers and service providers
• It can be delivered as a complete program or in separate modules
• It includes a facilitator guide, a carer workbook and a DVD-CD Rom
Background
• Carers NT developed the original program– As a response to Aboriginal carers in a
remote community– It was developed as an action research
program with the community and an Aboriginal Aged Care Centre
– As a Chronic Condition Self-management type program
Program modules
• Five modules– Carers and caring– Exercise for health and ‘Looking After Me’
action plan– Healthy eating and good rest– Better breathing and learn to relax– Talking and listening, health checks and
problem solving
Carers NSW adaptation
• Carers NSW piloted the program for a NSW environment– an advisory committee oversaw the pilot– Aboriginal carers and communities
participated in the pilot• Coffs Harbour and Port Macquarie• Wyong Aboriginal Carer Support Group• Babana Aboriginal Men’s Group Redfern• Mt Druitt
Outcomes NSW pilot
• Diverse ages and caring situations in pilot groups– 30 women, 4 males (plus Babana)– Diverse ages– Caring for aged parent, grandchild with
disability, partner, children with intellectual disability, adult child with mental illness, sibling with disability
– Multiple caring situations
Outcomes NSW pilot• Low knowledge level in most sessions,
including service providers– Carers looking after themselves– Healthy eating– Relaxation– Pictorial training module format– Good feel about the program– Health and wellbeing topics simply explained– DVD supports the training modules– Carers who had some knowledge could be used as
peer co-trainer
Outcomes NSW pilot• Benefits
– Pictorial training module format– Good feel about the program– Health and wellbeing topics simply explained– DVD supports the training modules
• Disadvantages– Language too ‘dumbed down’ for NSW – Pictorial training image too young for NSW– DVD too focused on remote and young carers– DVD doesn’t use real people
Carers NSW program• Includes
– Trainers handbook – Trainers PowerPoint presentation – DVD-CD Rom for trainers and Aboriginal carers
• NSW Aboriginal carers and communities involved in DVD-CD Rom
• Narrator is Karla Grant, SBS Living Black
• Images from Aboriginal Carer Kit (Caring for our People) incorporated
• Carers NSW Aboriginal carer resources incorporated– Aboriginal Carers Relaxation CD soundtrack and artwork
Looking After Ourselves
This training for you is made to:
• Help you focus on your own issues of health and wellbeing
• Look at ways to help you manage your caring role
Looking After
OurselvesSession 1 Carers and Caring
Session 2 Looking after Me
Session 3 Healthy Eating and Good Rest
Session 4 Better Breathing and Learn to Relax
Session 5 Talking and listening to people, health checks and problem solving
What Carers might do • Cooking• Cleaning• Changing the bed• Bathing• Dressing• Feeding• Shopping• Giving medications• Giving emotional
support• Prompting
• Going to appointments with the person you care for
• Helping the person during the night
• Speaking out for that person
How does Caring affect you?
• Many people have similar problems.
• Caring can be really demanding and sometimes we can feel that we are caught up in a Worry Circle.
Worry Circle• Confused• Tired • Sad• Tense Muscles• Sore/Pain• Frustrated• Short Winded• Angry
What Carers might do • Cooking• Cleaning• Changing the bed• Bathing• Dressing• Feeding• Shopping• Giving medications• Giving emotional
support• Prompting
• Going to appointments with the person you care for
• Helping the person during the night
• Speaking out for that person
Looking After
Ourselves
Session 2Looking after me
Carers Staying HealthyMAKE SOME TIME FOR YOURSELF!MAKE SOME TIME FOR YOURSELF!
• exercise• eat well• get enough rest• relax• breathing exercises
• talk to people – tell your story• have a break – regular respite• have a health check• solve problems
EXERCISE We do exercise because it’s good for:• heart and lungs• being short winded• bending easier• losing weight/maintain weight
• helping you sleep • your balance• reducing tiredness
Three things to think about when doing exercise
B. Stretching
• helps loosen muscles
• to bend easier and
• helps balance
Three things to think about when doing exercise
C. Strengthening• makes you stronger• good for your bones and • helps prevent osteoporoses
Every week make a plan Example
June Mon Tues Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
Wk 1. healthy breakfast
9am-walk
take a nap
healthy breakfast
cook big stew with veggies
healthy breakfast
healthy breakfast
9am-walk
healthy breakfast
take a nap
healthy breakfast
see a friend
healthy breakfast
rest
Wk 2. 9am-walk rest healthy breakfast
go fishing
9am-walk rest healthy breakfast
fishing
Wk 3. 9am-walkgo fishing
healthy breakfast dancing
health check for me
9am-walksee a friend
shoppingfor self(not groceries etc.)
healthy breakfast
healthy breakfast take a nap
Wk 4. healthy breakfast
9am-walk
healthy breakfast
rest
healthy breakfast take a nap
healthy breakfast
9am-walk
healthy breakfastgarden
healthy breakfast
healthy breakfast Visit a friend
Did it work? Why/why not? - Try again - change plan if necessary - Make it realistic - achievable - keep trying !
Highlights
• Aboriginal carers involvement and recognition– DVD-CD Rom participation– All participants receive NSW Local Carer Awards
• Aboriginal carers and service providers want to use program in local communities
• Carers NSW will deliver facilitator training in May-June 2011