"Ask Emma" Caregiver Wellness Tool
Please select the single statement that most closely represents the reason for your visit today.
Once you have made your selection. Please proceed to the remaining questions. You are invited to answer each of the questions honestly keeping in mind that there are no right or wrong answers. Your answers are completely confidential and your information will not be shared. Thank You!
I am looking for strategies to balancing work and family.
I need to improve my physical health.
I am burned out.
I have concerns about coordinating and/or paying for the care of my loved one.
I am feeling spiritually distressed.
I am feeling socially isolated.
I would like access to information and training so that I can better care for my loved one.
I don’t know exactly what I need. I am simply reaching out for help.
I need to change the way I support or care for my loved one.
Occupational Wellness
1. I have a clear understanding of my workplace employee assistance program.
Agree
Somewhat Agree
Disagree
2. I am preoccupied with caregiving responsibilities while I am at work.
Agree
Somewhat Agree
Disagree
3. Thinking about the mental demands of your job, how do you rate your current ability to meet those demands?
All the Time
Sometimes
Never
Physical Wellness
1. I exercise on a regular basis, participate in physical activity without bodily pain, and am at a healthy weight; my blood pressure is controlled; and my alcohol consumption is limited.
Agree
Somewhat Agree
Disagree
2. I find that I do not get adequate sleep and do not feel fully rested after sleep.
Agree
Somewhat Agree
Disagree
3. I
do not
smoke and my alcohol consumption is limited.
Agree
Somewhat Agree
Disagree
Psychological Wellness
1. I am fully able to experience (feel) a wide range of feelings such as joy, excitement, happiness, peacefulness, fear, anger, sadness, and hopelessness.
Agree
Somewhat Agree
Disagree
2. I live life one day at a time and don’t really think about the future.
Agree
Somewhat Agree
Disagree
3. I am an active person in carrying out the plans I set for myself and my loved one.
Agree
Somewhat Agree
Disagree
Intellectual Wellness
1. I actively seek education to improve care for my loved one and apply what I have learned to improve the health and wellness of myself and my loved one.
Agree
Somewhat Agree
Disagree
2. If asked by a health care professional, I would
not know
how to relay what is needed for my loved one.
Agree
Somewhat Agree
Disagree
3. I really enjoy a task that involves coming up with new solutions to problems.
Agree
Somewhat Agree
Disagree
Social Well-being
1. I am satisfied with the number and quality of social supports available from family, friends, church and the community.
Agree
Somewhat Agree
Disagree
2. Despite the fact that I have caregiving responsibilities, I continue to have contact with friends at the same level as I did in the past.
Agree
Somewhat Agree
Disagree
3. My loved one and I are
unable
to spend time apart to pursue our individual interests.
Agree
Somewhat Agree
Disagree
Spiritual Well-being
1. I am able to take time away from caregiving to attend to my spiritual needs.
Agree
Somewhat Agree
Disagree
2. I am experiencing a sense of inner peace and am able to see the positive things in life.
Agree
Somewhat Agree
Disagree
3. Lately I have self-doubts about and constantly feel as though I need to prove myself.
Agree
Somewhat Agree
Disagree
Empowerment
1. When necessary, I take the initiative in looking for services for myself and my loved one.
Agree
Somewhat Agree
Disagree
2. I am hesitant to make changes regarding the services my loved one needs, even when I am not pleased with a care or service provider.
Agree
Somewhat Agree
Disagree
3. I make sure that the rest of the healthcare team clearly understands my views about how to provide the services my loved one needs.
Agree
Somewhat Agree
Disagree
Resilience
1. I am able to adjust and adapt in a healthy and flexible way to the ever-changing roles associated with caring for my loved one.
Agree
Somewhat Agree
Disagree
2. I think it is important to have new experiences that challenge how I think about myself and the world.
Agree
Somewhat Agree
Disagree
3. I do not enjoy being in new situations that require me to change my old familiar ways of doing things.
Agree
Somewhat Agree
Disagree
Financial Wellness
1. I have access to adequate resources to pay for the care and needs of my loved one, my family and myself.
Agree
Somewhat Agree
Disagree
2. I
am not
compensated a salary as a caregiver nor do I have funds allocated to go into my retirement account.
Agree
Somewhat Agree
Disagree
3. The amount of control I have over my financial situation has changed for the worst in the last year.
Agree
Somewhat Agree
Disagree
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