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By Family Caregiver Alliance Earlier this week, President Obama became the first president of the United States to endorse gay marriage. While the immediate effects of his endorsement aren’t clear, there is a possibility that this endorsement may carry over to changing policies that affect LGBT caregivers in long-term care programs like Medicaid. This post highlights unique [...] What if Family Caregivers Went on Strike? November 15, 2011 By Sean Coffey, Policy Specialist at Family Caregiver Alliance During the past 15 years, researchers have analyzed a number of topics around the impact of being a family caregiver. There are plenty of data about the effect of caregiving on the caregiver’s health, including increased risks of depression, [...] November 9, 2011 By Enid Kassner, Director of Independent Living/Long-Term Services and Supports at the AARP Public Policy Institute. When I was growing up, my grandmother liked to say: “God helps those who help themselves.” This was a woman who knew something about hard work – coming to this country at the age of 17 from Romania; [...] November 6, 2011 By Sean Coffey A study earlier this year focused on the issues of caregiving from a distance for adult children whose parents were diagnosed with cancer. In an interview with one of the authors (scroll down to May 2011), Polly Mazane, PhD, ACNP, AOCN, she explained that there is a joke about adult [...] Staff from our organization, Family Caregiver Alliance, speak with family caregivers every day through our national information and referral hotline. These caregivers are often facing enormous financial difficulties. For example, adult children who are caring for parents with Alzheimer’s, especially in its advanced stages, find that keeping a job and being a caregiver is nearly [...] How good was 2010 to family caregivers? Well if you factored out the protracted budget crisis in the states, it was a pretty good year. Two landmark pieces of legislation set the pace: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act. We have also gathered other [...] |
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