What's Respite Care?

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My mum has been talking to my psychologist about receiving respite care. I'm wondering what the heck respite care is? Has anybody received respite care? Is it anything I should be scared of? I looked on the internet and it's supposed to be a short time away from my mum or something like that.

I've heard of people getting respite care before, but only by overhearing teachers of disabled students talking about it. Apparently it's just having another person, kind of like a teacher, help out with you for a certain amount of time each week (or month, or whenever) so your mom has time to do other things like work and deal with her mental health and all that. It'll be more healthy for her and the person you're with would be more experienced with Autistic people and maybe be able to help you with social skills and stuff. I guess different places probably do it a little differently, though. I've never had anything like that so I don't know a whole lot about it.

I work as a respite care provider. Yeah, it's as you said, basically taking a person out in the community or staying with the person in their own home for a period of time and providing all of the necessary care for them while the parent(s) do everything else they need to get done. It's kind of like adult babysitting for or a paid companion for a special needs person.

I've got a carer that's provided respite care for other more severe clients. It's basically respite from their primary caregivers.

As stated previously, it could also mean providing overnight care that could mean staying at a cares home.