Despite caregivers’ critical roles, they often feel unprepared to provide care and often receive little guidance from healthcare providers. Research evidence reveals knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviors and resources are required to empower caregivers. Caregivers often grapple with constantly changing roles, grasping medical knowledge, emotional stress, financial strains and changing family dynamics hence needing greater affirmation and validation of their roles.
Tehy Care Group empower caregivers with disease-specific knowledge for them to understand the health conditions of the patients and how to manage symptoms. Research evidence emphasizes the importance of caregiving skills, hence Tehy Care Group empowering their caregivers with skills such as personal care, rehabilitation care, coping skills and communication skills in order to be able deal with patients with different conditions. Tehy’s caregivers are also empowered with knowledge on positive attitudes. Research states that it is important to cultivate positive attitudes towards people with dementia, since they may exhibit behaviors that make their care more challenging and can disrupt the lives of caregivers and others at the homecare. Tehy also instills their caregivers with knowledge of care transitions, how to manage the transition of a patient from home to the homecare.