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The MetLife Mature Market Institute has issued caregiving publications available free to the public in preparation for November's Caregiver Awareness Month. These Helpful Hints are six two-page informational bulletins taken from studies done by the MetLife Mature Market Institute and National Alliance for Caregiving. They contain tips and advice for older Americans and for those caring for aging friends and relatives.
*Helpful Hints: Choosing An Assisted Living Facility
*Helpful Hints: If Care is Needed at Home
*Helpful Hints: Caregiving from a Distance
*Helpful Hints: Advocating for a Family Member
*Helpful Hints: Choosing an Adult Day Services
*Helpful Hints: Caregiving and Alzheimer's Disease
Service Link - Merrimack County Caregivers Newsletter - Spring 2009
Across the country, children are providing care for sick parents or grandparents — lifting frail bodies off beds or toilets, managing medication, washing, feeding, dressing, talking with doctors. Schools, social service agencies and health providers are often unaware of those responsibilities because families members may be too embarrassed, or stoic.
Experts say many child caregivers are from single-parent, low-income families, including some from foreign cultures accustomed to such roles. Others are from middle-income families whose insurance does not cover home care. To view this entire article by Pam Belluck of the NY Times, please visit: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/health/23care.html?emc=eta1