Reflective Essay: Caregiving With Aging

For a start, I have been a caregiver along with my wife for almost twelve years now. The journey began when my wife became pregnant back in the spring of 2003. After having a premature delivery, at 28 weeks, my two little angels were born – Identical twins, each weighing a miraculous pound and a half. According to the physician, the umbilical cord of one of the twins was wrapped twice around the neck, causing the other twin to become asphyxiated and lose oxygen to both her brain and respiratory system. Parallel to this, my wife was having continuous contraction pains/Braxton hicks making the pain unbearable. Now looking back in retrospect, I vividly remember spending endless hours in the emergency room coupled with all the other wellness check-ups due to her high risk pregnancy. With that in mind, my identical twins were born via emergency C-Section birth, also widely known as a cesarean. At the time, immediately, right after the welcoming of Tiffany and Teresa, our level of hope had plummeted and shattered, due to the undeveloped …show more content…
From my perspective, you do not have to be aging or extremely old to fit that category. I say this because some diseases or life’s circumstances, age you sooner and eliminate your life before you may reach what is considered the aging population phase based on a numerical qualification. On a different note, as a professional, working with the homeless population, I have been assigned many elderly client to my caseload that I enjoy working with. I have worked with clients ranging from 18 years of age to 76 years. Thus, I have enjoyed the time I have spent working with the elderly and would consider a career focused on advocating for the elderly. Although I am not on the direct practice track for the aging population, as professional social workers, he have to be ready and equipped to work with any