Preventing Learned Helplessness

Learned helplessness means that the caregiver is overstepping and doing things for the care recipient that the care recipient could do themselves and that they should do themselves because it adds to their dignity and helps them maintain some independence. Marina Keers, Executive Director of Hendricks County Senior Services, gives advice to family caregivers as part of the CareAware video series produced in 2015 by CICOA Aging & In-Home Solutions in Indianapolis.