Respite care may be used:
a. to provide a break for a family carer.
b. as a time to evaluate and stabilise an individual'stroublesome symptoms
c. to provide a period of 24-hour-a-day support foran individual with anger issues or high levels of
anxiety.
d. all of the above.
d
Respite care may be used to provide a break for a family
carer, as a time to evaluate and stabilise an individual's troublesome symptoms or to provide a period of 24-hour-a-day
support for an individual who is experiencing emotional dis
tress such as unresolved anger or high levels of anxiety.
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