What kind of work is it?

１．　Care work

１）What kind of work is it?

(1)　Care work is to help people with difficulties in their daily lives.

　　We do a lot of things in our daily lives.

　　For example, we sleep, wake up, move, eat, bathe, and do fun things.

　　There are elderly (aged people, aged men, aged women) and disabled people (people with disabilities) who have difficulties in their daily lives.

　　Care work is the work to help them.

　　Care work enables them to live their own lives, even if they are seriously ill or disabled.

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(2)　The most important thing in care work is a consideration.

　　Consideration means thinking of ways to make people happy.

　　Beware of misplaced kindness.

　　Do what they want you to help with.

　　Don't do what they want to do themselves.

　　If you do so, they will feel uncomfortable.

　　Also, if you help them too much, one day they will not be able to do it themselves.

　　For example, though she can walk using a walking stick, you use a wheelchair for her to move easier out of kindness.

　　Then her strength may weaken.

　　She may not be able to walk using a walking stick anymore.

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(3)　 Care work is the work that values human rights (the right to live as a human being).

　　Everyone has the right to live as a human being.

　　It is called "human rights".

　　There are human rights that we should value when we work as caregivers.

・Dignity (the right to be valued as a human being)

　　Don't treat any person like an animal or a thing.

・Privacy

(the right to keep secret what one doesn't want others to know)

　　Caregivers often have access to the privacy of the care-given people and their families.

　　Do not share it with others without consent.

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・The right to self-determination (the right to decide for oneself)

　　Make sure that care-given people can make their own decisions as much as possible.

　　Caregivers should not make decisions on their own.

　　If it is impossible to do as they want, be sure to explain the reason, so that they can think, "OK. I understand."

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(4) Care work is the work that values QOL (Quality of life: the feeling of being happy to be alive).

　　There is a term called QOL (Quality of Life).

　　Which means to be happy to be alive.

　　It is difficult for people to live in a painful and sad state of mind.

　　It is also difficult to live with the feeling "I'm useless".

　　Please be considerate of their thoughts and feelings.

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・　Care work supports independence, which means supporting people's desire to make their own decisions and do as much as possible on their own.

　　Everyone has different likes, dislikes, and beliefs about what is important in life.

　　Each person moves the body in a different way.

　　Each one has different problems.

　　Different homes, different families, different ways of using money, and different rhythms of life.

　　Let the people be able to decide for themselves what they want to do and how they want to do them.

　　Caregivers should not decide the way on their own, saying, "This way would be better."

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　　There are some important things you need to be aware of.

　　The word "independence" usually means "to decide and do one's own activities by oneself.

　　But "independence" which is used in care work means a little different.

　　Though they can do it by themselves, don't let them take too much time, get too tired, or feel "never want to do it again."

　　Independence support is designed to help people choose what they want to do by themselves and what they need help with.

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・Care work values the individual's motivation, the feeling "I want to do it.

　　People often feel sad and lose their motivation when they get sick or get more things they can't do by themselves.

　　Don't let them think, "It's easier to have someone else do everything for me, so I won't do anyting myself. "

　　Support them to think, "I want to do what I can do now by myself." 

　　Support them so that they can enjoy what they can do. 

　　Support them to feel like trying new activities. 

　　Exercise to avoid weakness.

　　Brush my teeth to avoid losing them.

　　Eat properly to keep healthy.

　　Never give up on learning something.

　　I'll try something new.

　　We take a walk so we can keep walking.

　　Have fun with others to avoid feeling alone and lonely.

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