Tag: caregiver resources

Virtual Caregiver Summit Announces Full Agenda

Award-winning Virtual Video Caregiver Summit – Caregiver Smile Summit 2 – Announces Full Agenda Virtual, On Demand Caregiver Summit – The second annual Caregiver Smile Summit recently announced their speaker lineup and agenda at www.caregiversummit.org. The Virtual, On Demand Summit, which you can access on your schedule, will feature video...

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Tips for Reducing Caregiver Stress

Tips for Reducing Caregiver Stress Caregiver stress – a topic often left unspoken, particularly with the emotions involved. Most especially for family caregivers, with guilt and confusion settling in when the line of duty and personal time seems to blur. Here are some tips from Senior Advice to help cope...

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Impact of Family Caregiving on Work

The AARP’s updated report on family caregivers and work shows increasing numbers of caregivers in the workplace. The ‰ÛÏaverage‰Û U.S. caregiver is a 49-year-old woman who works outside the home and spends nearly 20 hours per week‰ÛÓthe equivalent of another parttime job‰ÛÓproviding unpaid care to her mother for nearly five...

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Assessing Family Caregiver Needs Important

The AARP Public Policy Institute (PPI) has released a new fact sheet, Assessing Family Caregiver Needs: Policy and Practice Considerations. The fact sheet explains why it is important to assess and respond to family caregiver needs, highlights the fundamental principles of caregiver assessment, and describes why assessments have an important...

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MS Caregiver Burdens Greater than the General Family Caregiver

Multiple Sclerosis Caregivers 2012 is a report based on a survey conducted by the National Alliance for Caregiving with support from the National MS Society that reveals that the physical, mental and financial burdens on family caregivers of people with MS are significantly greater than the general family caregiving population....

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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....

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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 Alzheimer‰Ûªs or dementia has more than doubled, from 19 to 40 percent, according to the Alzheimer‰Ûªs Association.åÊ The trend mirrors the higher number of women with the disease...

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