Three helpful videos can be found on the AARP website. Balancing Caregiving and Work focuses on family caregivers in the workplace and features individuals who are caregivers or are working to make life easier for employed caregivers. Family-Friendly Workplaces discusses flexibility, public policies and provides statistics on working caregivers. Employers and Caregivers focuses on the […]
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This website is the centerpiece of the “Family Caregiving: It’s not all up to you” outreach campaign from The National Family Caregivers Association (NFCA) and the National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC). They created this site in 2004 to recognize, support and advise the more than 50 million family caregivers in this country provide care for […]
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These four minute YouTube clips from a PBS video series define, describe, explain and provide suggestions for managing caregiver burnout. Part one: While family caregivers give of themselves out of love, there are real physical, emotional and financial costs associated with caregiving. As we live longer and caregiving becomes a bigger issue in the U.S., […]
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Demographic trends indicate that a greater number of employees of all ages will assume the role of family caregiver for an increasingly older population. This means that more employees will be dealing with eldercare issues. This report, The MetLife Study of Working Caregivers and Employer Health Care Costs, from the Mature Market Institute (MMI), Metropolitan Life […]
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A printable publication of the Family Caregiving Alliance, this fact sheet provides some background on how providing family care causes stress, as well as some useful tips for managing the stress and preventing burn out.
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This 18 minute video produced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services provides short vignettes that provide insight into what it means to care for the elderly. The video covers information on the Medicaid waiver program, the importance of respite care and the use of Senior Centers. The video provides advice on where to […]
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This WebMD article explores the symptoms and causes of caregiver burnout as well as some suggestions for preventing it from occurring.
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A new social networking community for people living with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers, ALZConnected, has been launched by the Alzheimer’s Association. After joining the online community at no cost, members can connect with others to discuss their challenges, pose and answer questions about dementia-related issues, create groups about specific topics and contribute to message boards.
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Life (Part 2) begins with a clip from The Forgetting, the Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary on Alzheimer’s disease. Then PBS host, Robert Lipsyte, an Emmy winner and former New York Times columnist, turns to his panelists for a discussion among panelists that have either cared for a loved one, or conducted research on the experiences […]
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Hosted by the National Alliance for Caregiving at Family Caregiver Alliance, this PowerPoint and webinar from December, 2010, provide useful information regarding what it means to be a caregiver, what daily activities look like and how caregiving affects the health of the caregiver. It uses data from the 2009 Caregiving in the US survey. Please […]
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