A Guide to Caregiver Support Groups in Washington State
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Page : 53 pages
File Size : 13,37 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Caregivers
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 13,37 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Caregivers
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Author : Washington (State). Aging and Adult Services Administration
Publisher :
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 23,19 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Caregivers
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Author : Kate Washington
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 36,58 MB
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0807011754
The story of one woman’s struggle to care for her seriously ill husband—and a revealing look at the role unpaid family caregivers play in a society that fails to provide them with structural support. Already Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be, how difficult it is to find support, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing emotional labor also keep them in unpaid caregiving roles. When Kate Washington and her husband, Brad, learned that he had cancer, they were a young couple: professionals with ascending careers, parents to two small children. Brad’s diagnosis stripped those identities away: he became a patient and she his caregiver. Brad’s cancer quickly turned aggressive, necessitating a stem-cell transplant that triggered a massive infection, robbing him of his eyesight and nearly of his life. Kate acted as his full-time aide to keep him alive, coordinating his treatments, making doctors’ appointments, calling insurance companies, filling dozens of prescriptions, cleaning commodes, administering IV drugs. She became so burned out that, when she took an online quiz on caregiver self-care, her result cheerily declared: “You’re already toast!” Through it all, she felt profoundly alone, but, as she later learned, she was in fact one of millions: an invisible army of family caregivers working every day in America, their unpaid labor keeping our troubled healthcare system afloat. Because our culture both romanticizes and erases the realities of care work, few caregivers have shared their stories publicly. As the baby-boom generation ages, the number of family caregivers will continue to grow. Readable, relatable, timely, and often raw, Already Toast—with its clear call for paying and supporting family caregivers—is a crucial intervention in that conversation, bringing together personal experience with deep research to give voice to those tasked with the overlooked, vital work of caring for the seriously ill.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 23,81 MB
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309448093
Family caregiving affects millions of Americans every day, in all walks of life. At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are caregivers of an older adult with a health or functional limitation. The nation's family caregivers provide the lion's share of long-term care for our older adult population. They are also central to older adults' access to and receipt of health care and community-based social services. Yet the need to recognize and support caregivers is among the least appreciated challenges facing the aging U.S. population. Families Caring for an Aging America examines the prevalence and nature of family caregiving of older adults and the available evidence on the effectiveness of programs, supports, and other interventions designed to support family caregivers. This report also assesses and recommends policies to address the needs of family caregivers and to minimize the barriers that they encounter in trying to meet the needs of older adults.
Author : Ronda Hughes
Publisher : Department of Health and Human Services
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN :
"Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/
Author : National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
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Page : pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 2021-11-23
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ISBN : 9780309154291
Author : David Shenk
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 34,20 MB
Release : 2003-05-20
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1400075580
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A powerfully engaging, scrupulously researched, and deeply empathetic narrative of the history of Alzheimer’s disease, how it affects us, and the search for a cure. Afflicting nearly half of all people over the age of 85, Alzheimer’s disease kills nearly 100,000 Americans a year as it insidiously robs them of their memory and wreaks havoc on the lives of their loved ones. It was once minimized and misunderstood as forgetfulness in the elderly, but Alzheimer’s is now at the forefront of many medical and scientific agendas, for as the world’s population ages, the disease will touch the lives of virtually everyone. David Shenk movingly captures the disease’s impact on its victims and their families, and he looks back through history, explaining how Alzheimer’s most likely afflicted such figures as Jonathan Swift, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Willem de Kooning. The result is a searing and graceful account of Alzheimer’s disease, offering a sobering, compassionate, and ultimately encouraging portrait.
Author : Washington (State). Department of Social and Health Services
Publisher :
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 18,35 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Caregivers
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Author : Hugh Delehanty
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 26,52 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Adult children
ISBN : 140275857X
"Practical advice you can trust from the experts at AARP"--Cover.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Human Services
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 15,71 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Aged
ISBN :