This Week in Caregiving: July 30 - August 5 Inbox x Promotions x National Alliance for Caregiving via www-caregiving.ccsend.com Aug 5 (3 days ago) to me This Week in Caregiving from the National Alliance for Caregiving Here are the highlights from this week's news in family caregiving: An Alzheimer's doctor reveals his most powerful technology Forbes | August 5, 2016 The coming Alzheimer's technologies will arguably change my profession as technologies have changed fields like oncology and cardiology. Alzheimer's doctors will pass less time talking with the patient and family about the patient and how they're living with and making sense of the disease, and more time talking about the technologies. Teaching in-home caregivers seems to pay off California Healthline | August 2, 2016 "Low-income Californians who are elderly and disabled were less likely to go to the emergency room or be hospitalized after their in-home caregivers participated in an intensive training program, according to a report." New study: Caring for elderly stroke survivors costs an estimated $40 billion per year University of Michigan Health | August 1, 2016 "A group of University of Michigan researchers found the need for care translates to about $11,000 per stroke survivor per week, for an annual estimate of around $40 billion in costs to care for elderly stroke survivors." The "younger old" spend more on end-of-life care than the oldest PBS Next Avenue | July 29, 2016 "Americans in their 80s and 90s are not the ones amassing the largest medical bills to hold off death, according to a new analysis that challenges a widely held belief about the costs of end-of-life care. People in their 60s and 70s - those with potentially longer life expectancies - spend the most on end-of-life care." The problem with family caregiving Asian Journal | July 30, 2016 It is a wonderful thing that we and try to keep our parents, grandparents, and other family members at home as long as possible. When my grandfather had a massive stroke, we cared for him at home until he passed (which was relatively quickly). However, there are compelling reasons to seek assistance taking care of our sick seniors. Cool Link of the Week Gerada Saunders has progressive dementia. This is her first evaluation in three years. Slate We're Thinking About: Caregivers & Technology "Experts say part of the problem is that the young, mostly-male tech programmers making these devices don't have a good enough understanding of the lives of unpaid caregivers, who tend to be older women. The result is that some products aren't designed as thoughtfully as they should be for their potential users." CNET News - "Tech Can Help the Elderly if They Use It" Do you have family caregiving news to share? Send to Parys at parys@caregiving.org. National Alliance for Caregiving | www.caregiving.org STAY CONNECTED: Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter View our profile on LinkedIn National Alliance for Caregiving, 4720 Montgomery Lane , Suite 205, Bethesda, MD 20814

"This Week in Caregiving: July 30 - August 5" National Alliance for Caregiving in Bethesda, Maryland, United States for Friday, 5 August 2016


This Week in Caregiving from the National Alliance for Caregiving
Here are the highlights from this week's news in family caregiving:
An Alzheimer's doctor reveals his most powerful technology
Forbes | August 5, 2016
The coming Alzheimer's technologies will arguably change my profession as technologies have changed fields like oncology and cardiology. Alzheimer's doctors will pass less time talking with the patient and family about the patient and how they're living with and making sense of the disease, and more time talking about the technologies.
Teaching in-home caregivers seems to pay off
California Healthline | August 2, 2016
"Low-income Californians who are elderly and disabled were less likely to go to the emergency room or be hospitalized after their in-home caregivers participated in an intensive training program, according to a report."
New study: Caring for elderly stroke survivors costs an estimated $40 billion per year
University of Michigan Health | August 1, 2016
"A group of University of Michigan researchers found the need for care translates to about $11,000 per stroke survivor per week, for an annual estimate of around $40 billion in costs to care for elderly stroke survivors."
The "younger old" spend more on end-of-life care than the oldest
PBS Next Avenue | July 29, 2016
"Americans in their 80s and 90s are not the ones amassing the largest medical bills to hold off death, according to a new analysis that challenges a widely held belief about the costs of end-of-life care. People in their 60s and 70s - those with potentially longer life expectancies - spend the most on end-of-life care."
The problem with family caregiving
Asian Journal | July 30, 2016
It is a wonderful thing that we and try to keep our parents, grandparents, and other family members at home as long as possible. When my grandfather had a massive stroke, we cared for him at home until he passed (which was relatively quickly). However, there are compelling reasons to seek assistance taking care of our sick seniors.
Cool Link of the Week
Gerada Saunders has progressive dementia.
This is her first evaluation in three years.
Slate
We're Thinking About: Caregivers & Technology
"Experts say part of the problem is that the young, mostly-male tech programmers making these devices don't have a good enough understanding of the lives of unpaid caregivers, who tend to be older women. The result is that some products aren't designed as thoughtfully as they should be for their potential users."
CNET News - "Tech Can Help the Elderly if They Use It"
Do you have family caregiving news to share? Send to Parys at parys@caregiving.org.
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