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Family caregivers are overwhelmed by the relentless demands of caregiving, making it difficult for them to learn complex concepts or remember new information.
Most home health workers have no formal education beyond hight school, and many don't speak English as their first language.
Nearly all will die in the next 5 years.
Most will die in the next 2 years.
Many are 100 pounds overweight, some need supplemental oxygen just to breath, and most are in varying stages of heart, pancreas, liver, lung and kidney failure.
“The true measure of any society
can be found in how it treats its most
vulnerable members.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi
hours every day helping patients, doing the most grueling work you could imagine.
“Mr. Johnson is homebound. Working 60 hours a week, I guess you could say
I’m homebound too.”
“I remember when it was safe to leave Bill alone in the house. Those days are gone now.
For better or worse, all we have now is each other.”
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For many patients, family caregivers and home health aides are their only source of love.
Important Responsibilities:
For patients with advance medical conditions, day-to-day disease management is an essential defense against:
• Medical instability
• Hospitalizations
• Even death
Only Caregivers are with Patients every day.
In today's environment, daily treatment and observation isn't done by doctors or nurses... the job aof day-to-day disease management belongs to the home health workers and family members who are with patients every single day.
Making sure medications are taken when they’re supposed to—every day
Recognizing disease-specific warning signs fast-- and reported them to the doctor immediately
Performing procedures, like wound care and tube feeding, not just every day-- but correctly and with infection-free technique
Vloggers
Funny commercials
Animation
Soapy melodramas
Celebrating Care Givers
