Managing Change Home Care Path LLC

Having Home Care Path LLC staff http://homecarepath.com come in to a home represents a change. Recognize that all change manifests predictable psychological processes that seniors go through as they come to terms with a new situation. Home Care Path LLC staff, the senior, family, other agencies providing service, can expereince guilt, self absorption, resentment, anxiety, and stress. It may be helpful to look at this change in three phases.
Phase one: release, or letting go
Phase two: crossing the neutral zone, or middle of the road
Phase three: launching new beginning,or involved seems like right thing to do

In phase one it is helpful to identify the change in relation to loss. Discuss who is losing what. With Home Care Path LLC staff the primary care giver may be surrendering some of the duties over to new staff members. The Senior may view the need for additional help as an increased loss of function, independence. The Home Care Path staff may have lost a senior and now must meet and work with a new individual. Openly and sympathetically acknowledge the importance of these losses. Try to discuss what is clearly over, what is not over, and treat the past with respect.

In phase two the household participants often feel like they are in the middle of the road. Past ways of doing things have gone away and the new way of doing things has not yet become the norm. This is the time lot of the emotions can play tricks on household participants. The old ways are gone but the new ways do not quite feel comfortable yet. The houshold participants should discuss recognizing this as occurring. Try to identify uncomfortable feelings. Keep communication open and above all see this as the flow of time on the process of change. Realize cares may take more time during this phase, and all will question more.

In phase three the new beginning is launched. Household participants notice some of the cares seem to flow smoother. The questioning is reduced. The buzzword transition experts use for phase three is "buy in". This means the household participants are begnning to be comfortable with the new way of doing things. Often the senior will accept additional help with tasks that had been labeled off bounds. The staff begin to see it will work for them, and they feel their help is valued. The family become comfortable with the new and facilitate the establishment of daily routines.

Readers are encouraged to understand that all change occurs in these three phases. Transition consultants specializing in change will be paid high sums of money to reveal to the clients what phase of the change process they are in. What thoughts, feelings and behaviors are normal parts of that phase of change. What interventions (open communication, defined loss) can help improve passage to the next phase. Just having all understand that change is a process that involves predictable phases that include varied thoughts, feelings and behaviors, can be helpful.