{"id":65,"date":"2026-07-29T16:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-nursing-pro\/2026\/07\/29\/when-respite-is-not-a-luxury\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T16:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:59:12","slug":"when-respite-is-not-a-luxury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-nursing-pro\/2026\/07\/29\/when-respite-is-not-a-luxury\/","title":{"rendered":"When respite is not a luxury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost every family carer we meet describes respite as something for people who are struggling more than they are. Almost every one of them was, by any reasonable measure, struggling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The signs we look for<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sleep broken most nights for more than a month<\/li><li>Medical appointments of your own being cancelled<\/li><li>Irritability that surprises you afterwards<\/li><li>No conversation in a week that was not about care<\/li><li>The thought, arriving unbidden, that you cannot keep this up<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why earlier is cheaper<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four hours a week, arranged in advance, costs a fraction of the emergency package that follows a carer collapse \u2014 and it is far easier on the person being cared for, who keeps the same faces and the same routine either way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carer breakdown does not announce itself. The signs that a family carer needs cover, and why asking earlier costs less than asking later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18,19,17],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-carers","tag-burnout","tag-carers","tag-respite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-nursing-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-nursing-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-nursing-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-nursing-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-nursing-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-nursing-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-nursing-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-nursing-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-nursing-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-nursing-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}