October 14, 2008, 9:30 am
By Jane Gross
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“In policy and in practice, the U.S. long-term care system fails to recognize, respect, assess and address the needs of family caregivers,” wrote Lynn Friss Feinberg, deputy director of the National Caregiver Alliance in San Francisco, one of the symposium participants. “Practitioners must consider not only how the caregiver can help the care recipient, but also how the service provider must help the family. Are family members seen as ‘resources’ to the care recipient, or are they viewed as individuals with needs and rights of their own?”
Ms. Feinberg’s comments are included in a supplement to the September issue of the American Journal of Nursing, which has published the results of that symposium, including 17 essays by conference participants as well as accompanying research. The essays are designed so that professionals can use them to earn continuing education credits, but they are also accessible to the non-professional and a source of information, inspiration and hope for family caregivers who stand to benefit the most from this ambitious project.
The complete supplement is available, chapter by chapter, at this section of the journal’s Web site. http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/static.asp?pageid=809507
Browse the table of contents; cherry-pick what interests you, or read it all. It will be time well spent.
http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/who-cares-for-the-caregivers/
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