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November 12, 2011 By Scott French, SAGECAP Program Manager (Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Elders) CAP (Caring and Preparing) Caregiving takes many forms. While we might think of caregivers as paid aides, in reality, the majority of caregiving in the U.S. is provided by informal caregivers, usually a spouse or child. In the [...] November 11, 2011 By Deborah Amdur, LCSW, ACSW, Chief Consultant, Care Management and Social Work, Department of Veterans Affairs In 2011, after nearly 150 years of honoring Veterans through benefits, health care and honorable burials, VA paid direct compensation to the Family Caregiver of a Veteran through the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Program of Comprehensive Assistance [...] 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 8, 2011 By Leah Eskenazi, MSW, Director of Operations and Planning at Family Caregiver Alliance Are you looking forward to getting together with your parents and siblings for Thanksgiving? Maybe not. Sibling relationships and parent–child communication can be complicated. Should one or both of your parents also suffer from a progressive chronic illness, then the [...] November 2, 2011 By Sean Coffey, Policy Specialist, Family Caregiver Alliance As advocates and people that work with family caregivers and their loved ones, we are often focused on the negative aspects of caregiving. There are logical reasons for this, for example, the family caregivers we work with often contact us when they reach a breaking point, [...] Editor’s note: This posting first appeared on the Health Affairs blog on October 3rd 2011. A posting on the Health Affairs blog earlier this year by Carol Levine asked the pointed question “Year of Caregiver- In what country?” In it, she compared the “Year of the Family Caregiver” in the U.S. to the recent [...] Editor’s Note: According to the Star Tribune, (thank you PHI National for posting this) a county judge has ruled that the 20% cuts for family caregivers can be enacted. “Lindman found that the Legislature offered the necessary “rational basis” for the pay cut when it decided that family members have “moral obligations … toward helping family members [...] Editor’s note: This letter was submitted to Senator Mark Leno today by Family Caregiver Alliance. He is the Chair of the Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee. Family Caregiver Alliance (FCA) is writing to express our concerns about the planned dismantling of the Adult Day Health Care (ADHC) system. As you noted at a recent Senate [...] Note: This blog posting was first posted on the California Work and Family Coalition Blog, Family Caregiver Alliance is a member of this coalition. Family caregivers know that long-term care can be expensive, and recent research has confirmed this. Expenses may include prescriptions, co-pays, medical equipment like walkers, and home modifications. There are also [...] On May 9, the VA will open the application process for eligible post-9/11 Veterans and Service Members to designate their Family Caregivers who will be eligible to receive a host of benefits. Benefits for the family caregiver may include a stipend, mental health services, access to health care insurance (if not already covered under a [...] |
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