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Caring at Home has published a valuable article about how seniors can help prevent serious medical errors by paying attention and speaking up when they have questions about their care or the medications prescribed for them.
You can read and reprint this article here.
"To Prevent Health Care Errors, Patients are Urged to SPEAK UP"
Three articles in the current Annals of Internal Medicine provide useful information about palliative and end-of-life care. A helpful table is included with each article to help caregivers manage decision-making. Although written for doctors, many family caregivers will find this information useful.
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I'd like to share with you today, a wonderful message from Rosalyn Carter about caregiving. Our former First Lady has been actively involved in caregiving for a long, long time. The Rosalyn Carter Institute provides a wide variety of valuable resources for family caregivers and for professional caregivers.
Mrs. Carter writes:
"My interest in caregiving goes back to my childhood. I was deeply influenced by how chronic illness affected and shaped my family and by the heroic and selfless efforts of health care providers, including Jimmy’s mother, Lillian Carter.
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In fact, the backbone of our country’s long-term, home-based, and community-based care systems is the family caregiver. The approximately 15 million caregivers in the United States provide $306 billion worth of unpaid services each year. That amount is almost twice as much as is spent on homecare and nursing home services combined ($158 billion).
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But the strains on our society and on these individuals as a result of providing care are becoming apparent. To read more, click here.
