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Tag: caregiver database
CarePlanners New Model for Helping Mom and Dad
As you made your way back home from an elder relative’s home during the holidays, you may have noticed some things that suggested that he/she could need some extra care. I had the pleasure of meeting the founder of CarePlanners, Alan Blaustein, in the fall of last year and learn...
Coming Out of the Closet with Caregiving
The AARP Public Policy Institute issued a paper entitled: A Call to Action: What Experts Say Needs to Be Done to Meet the Challenges of Family Caregiving. They invited 10 authors who have written about the challenges of family caregiving to participate in an AARP Solutions Forum on the issue....
Male Caregivers Have More Than Doubled
Men Increasingly Being Called on to be Caregivers In the last 15 years, the number of men caring for loved ones with AlzheimerÛªs or dementia has more than doubled, from 19 to 40 percent, according to the AlzheimerÛªs Association.åÊ The trend mirrors the higher number of women with the disease...
Possible New Blog – Your Thoughts
I am considering starting a sister blog to this one tentatively entitled Caregiver Confessions. Here is the idea. I push a lot of one way information to my audience around what I call educated aging – physical, emotional and financial. And I know that caregiving is an important issue that...
Recognizing the Important Role of Family Caregivers
Guest post by Stien Vandierendonck, Manager of Programs and Communications at the National Alliance for Caregiving. åÊ Most American caregivers are female and on average 48 years old. They typically take care of a relative, most often a parent, for an average period of 4.6 years.1 The estimated economic value...
$3 Trillion in Lost Benefits Suffered by Caregivers
A new Met Life study shows that almost 10 million adults over the age of 50 are becoming caregivers for their own parents, resulting in a loss of $3 trillion in wages, pension and Social Security benefits for time taken off from work. The MetLife Mature Market Institute, the National...
National Caregiver Survey – Caregivers Need Help!
The results of the 2010 National Caregiver Survey are now available. Some of the statistics were what I expected. Caregivers are typically female boomers caring for an elder in their 80-90’s etc. You can see the statistics here. What struck me is that the majority of caregivers admitted that they...
Caregiver Datbase Flawed According to LA Times
Two decades ago Congress set out to stop dangerous or incompetent caregivers from crossing state lines and landing in trouble by ordering that a national database be established allowing hospitals to check for disciplinary actions taken anywhere in the country against health professionals. The long-awaited repository is missing serious disciplinary...