Hooking Grandma Up

What is the most important thing for people to remember when they are taking care of an elderly relative?
There are more elderly people than ever before and family members are losing an incredible amount of time from their jobs taking care of the elderly. Most people are not proactive and they know grandma is losing it, but they wait until there is an emergency. But if people attend to the little things they can prevent that emergency. When you're on an airlines, they ask you to put the mask on first before you put it on kids, it's the same in this situation. You must take care of yourself before they take care of grandma. The first thing that goes is exercise and social life and then your support system goes so you must be proactive and reactive and you must take care of yourself, which is not selfish, you just absolutely must.

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