{This Week in Caregiving} from the National Alliance for Caregiving
Here are the highlights from this week's news in family caregiving:
The Washington Post
Thursday, June 2, 2016
"'It's remarkably common for children to make big adjustments to take care of an aging parent,' said Philip Sloane, co-director of the program on aging, disability and long-term care at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sharing a continuing care community, he said via email, represents 'a new but logical aging services model.' Where costs are reasonable, 'it may well catch on,' he added."
Next Avenue for Friday, June 10, 2016
"Her mother, Elinor Seikel, 98, is blind from macular degeneration and has a host of other medical problems. She needs assistance with everything from bathing and dressing to medication management and walking. In short, she resembles many people who end up in nursing homes. But Elinor Seikel is able to stay at home thanks both to her daughter's commitment and to a program offered through Massachusetts Medicaid program called Caregiver Homes, which compensates families for their caregiving."
NY Times for Thursday, June 9, 2016
"During his public funeral in Louisville on Friday, the spotlight will shift, however briefly, to Lonnie, 59, one of several speakers who will deliver eulogies. Few people can offera better, or broader, perspective of the sweep of Ali's life than the former Yolanda Williams, known as Lonnie, who met him as a pigtailed first grader in Louisville, their hometown, and grew up to become Ali's caregiver and keeper of his legacy."
NPR
Sunday, June 5, 2016
"Families who have a child with an illness that's likely genetically based, but never before described in the scientific literature, are lost in an information desert. They can be isolated by research protocols that keep scientific findings quiet until they are published, and by health privacy laws that prevent, for example, a genetics lab from connecting two families who have the same mutation. Recently, however, new and cheaper techniques in genetic testing and efforts to connect families to each other and to researchers offer promise of a future less desolate."
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PR Newswire for Thursday, June 9, 2016
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