Mgt 311 Week 9 Final Paper On Family Care

Aging is an important aspect of life and planning must be done to ensure that as we age that we have the support and resources available that we need to be taken care of properly. Families have different situations that have to be address as a person in their family reaches old age. Family decisions should be made that keep the care and wellbeing of the older members of the family as the primary concern. Not all decisions are going to be the same for all families and each individual situation would need to be considered to determine what is going to work best for each family. I will look at some aspects of planning and what I have discussed with my family going forward. My family is primarily in the states of Colorado, with the exception …show more content…
Formal support refers to help from professional caregivers that get paid such as doctors, nurses, and social workers (Novak, 2012). Informal support refers to help that is provided by friends, neighbors, and family members (Novak, 2012). When we look at social support as it relates to aging in my family, my mother being the oldest member of the family is the one who has built a decent circle of social support for herself. She lives away from all the other family, but I am close enough that I can be there within an hour, so I am her primary support. She also has friends in the community that help her and a sister and brother that live in Texas that check her on regularly and are willing to help her if she needs it. There is a large informal social support circle for my mother, but her formal support circle is limited. She has her primary care doctor and a therapist which make up her formal support circle. Use of social supports in our family is primarily informal, we use primarily other family members or close friends unless it is a medical condition that needs to be addressed then we have our primary