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Posts Tagged ‘caregiver’
Monday, January 3rd, 2011
Providing home care for a person with a mental and/or physical disability is always challenging; however, for a person with dementia, especially Alzheimer’s dementia, providing home care is especially difficult because the disability usually worsens over time. As such, the primary caregiver will eventually require a substitute caregiver in order to take care of personal business, to run errands, or simply to take a respite from daily caregiving responsibilities. (more…)
Tags: california, caregiver, caregiving strategies, Home Care
Posted in Degenerative Disease, Home Care, Long Term Care, Nursing Home Alternatives | No Comments »
Sunday, November 28th, 2010
Quite often, individuals suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease require skilled nursing and memory care that is outside the capacity of well-meaning family members and friends. The caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients, who are usually their adult children, are also often taking care of their own children. Such caregivers are part of the “sandwich generation,” a segment of the population that is trying to balance the demands of a full-time job with those of a nuclear family, and then trying to balance these demands with those of an aging parent. (more…)
Tags: Alzheimers's care, assisted living, caregiver, caregiving
Posted in Alzheimer's Care, Assisted Living Facilities, Degenerative Disease, Long Term Care | No Comments »
Saturday, October 30th, 2010
A recent article in the University of California’s California Agriculture journal, entitled “The Golden State goes gray: What aging will mean for California,” explores the looming issue of undertrained and overburdened in-home caregivers and the growing elderly population. (more…)
Tags: california, caregiver, caregiving, eldercare, Home Care
Posted in caregiving, Elder Care, Home Care, Long Term Care | 1 Comment »
Thursday, October 14th, 2010
Informal caregivers can be friends, neighbors, or relatives who provide assistance and, quite often, long term care to an individual who is either physically and/or mentally incapacitated and needs help with the tasks of daily living. Such caregivers are termed informal because they are not paid for their services. Yet, who are the typical informal caregivers in the state of New York, and what are their concerns? (more…)
Tags: caregiver, caregiving, long term care, New York, nursing home
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