Refine your search:
Alzheimer's Caregivers Exercise for Seniors ✔X Home Care Services ✔X List of All Topics ✔X Nutrition for Seniors ✔X
- 6
-
Editor's Note: MAY IS AMERICAN STROKE MONTH.
American Heart — Caring for stroke survivors sometimes stressful, but also rewarding DALLAS, April 30, 2009 - While caring for stroke survivors can be highly stressful for some families, many families feel little or no strain from caregiving, and even report that ...More…
-
Caregiver Information
Medicare — Find Caregiver Support Resources here. Medicare is creating THE definitive resource for caregivers. Get financial help, read caregiver stories, and more FamilyDoctor.org is a Web site operated by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), ...More…
-
Chapter 2 - Daily Care of Your Loved One With ALS
No guide can anticipate all the issues that may come up in day-to-day ALS care, but this chapter offers advice and resources for handling some of the more, and less, common problems that may arise. Home modifications make it easier on everyone. ...More…
-
Caregiver Health
American Medical Association — Caregiving can be stressful and may contribute to serious illness and depression. A caregiver is anyone who provides assistance to someone who is in need of care. This could involve caring for a spouse who has suffered a stroke, a child with ...More…
-
National Family Caregiver Support Program
Administration on Aging — The National Family Caregiver Support Program (NFCSP), established in 2000, provides grants to States and Territories, based on their share of the population aged 70 and over, to fund a range of supports that assist family and informal caregivers ...More…
-
Respite Care
Eldercare — Millions of Americans provide unpaid assistance each year to elderly family, friends, and neighbors to help them remain in their own homes and communities for as long as possible. Sometimes these caregivers need time off to relax or take care of ...More…
-
Families with Special Needs: Caregiving Tips
Centers for Disease Control — Whether your family member with special needs is a child or an adult, integrating personal and caregiving needs into everyday life can be challenging. Below are general caregiving tips and links to information on specific health topics to help ...More…
-
Welcome to Caregiving Across the States
Family Caregiver Alliance — Caregiving Across the States: Publically Funded Programs (2004) Here you'll find information on publicly-funded caregiver support programs in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. This information is adapted from a 50-state study ...More…
-
Family cardiac caregivers may have higher heart disease risk
American Heart — Family cardiac caregivers may have higher heart disease risk COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., March 12 - Caring for a family member with a serious heart ailment may increase your risk of cardiac disease, according to a report presented at the Researchers ...More…
-
Search of: caregivers OR caregiving
Clinical Trials — An Innovative Psychosocial Intervention for Adult-Child Caregivers of Parents With Alzheimer's Disease Behavioral: Phenomenological Interviews; Behavioral: Quantitative Interviews Behavioral: Meditation; Behavioral: Education; Behavioral: Respite ...More…
-
Common Bonds of Caregiving
What is the common thread that ties together those of us who care for spouses, children, parents, siblings, partners or friends who are chronically ill, frail, or disabled? It certainly is not the tasks of caregiving since they vary so much, from ...More…
-
Rehab Tip Sheets
Spinal Cord Injury — These tip sheets offer rehabilitation care providers and consumer caregivers step-by-step instructions and photo illustration on performing common activities. Wheelchair Positioning (PDF) Assisted Pressure Relief (PDF) Lift Transfers of Patients ...More…