Care partners, including family members, friends, or professionals, offer support and assistance tailored to your preferences and requirements to help you maintain your health and lifestyle.
Tips & Links
- Identify your care partners – people you choose, trust, and are comfortable with – who may help you with personal care and help with your daily activities, emotional support, and managing your health care needs.
- Care partners can be informal caregivers like family, friends, and neighbours or hired persons like health professionals, bookkeepers, or house cleaners.
- Learn about different ways care partners can assist you such as driving to appointments, offering social activities, visiting you at home, and reminding you to take your medications. Explore tips for caregivers from Healthlink BC.
- Complete your care partners list in My People in your Mywell Health planner. Include their contact information, tasks, and decision-support roles.
- Be aware that family caregiving can be very stressful. Know that there is a BC Caregiver Support Line toll-free at 1-877-520-3267.
- Review the Caregivers of BC website for family caregiver support groups.
- For resources and learning visit the learning centre at Caregivers of BC.
- Create a planning circle of care partners using the Nidus Personal Support Person’s planning tool.
Tools – Handouts & Videos
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