Handbook for Long-Distance Caregivers
 

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Whether you live an hour away or across the country, this booklet offers a roadmap for those new to the challenges of caring from afar for ill or elderly loved ones. Included: how to assess your care situation; develop a care team; hold a family meeting; access community organizations and private agencies; and balance work and caregiving.


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Caregiving Fact: Informal caregivers (unpaid family or friends of seriously ill loved ones) provide more care in the home than the federal government provides in all settings combined. See FCA's Policy Brief, Caregiving and Retirement Planning for more information.
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    Contrataci?n de empleados para el hogar (Hiring In-Home Help)
    El cuidado de los adultos con trastornos cognitivos y de la memoria (Caring for Adults with Cognitive and Memory Impairments)
    Guía del cuidador para entender la conducta de los pacientes con demencia (Caregiver's Guide to Understanding Dementia Behaviors)
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    Enfermedad de Parkinson (Parkinson's disease)
    ??Es una demencia? ?Qué significa ese diagnóstico?
    Demencia con cuerpos de Lewy (Dementia with Lewy Bodies)
    La apoplej?a o derrame cerebral (Stroke)
    La etapa inicial de la enfermedad Alzheimer (Early Stage Alzheimer's disease)
    Lesión cerebral traumática (Traumatic Brain Injury)
    Problemas conductuales posteriores a traumatismo craneal (Coping With Behavior Problems After Head Injury)
    Los cuidadores y la depressión (Caregiving and Depression)
    Opciones de la comunidad para el cuidado del paciente (Community Care Options)
    Opciones para el final de la vida: los tubos de alimentación y los respiradores (Feeding Tubes and Ventilators)
    Opciones para el final de la vida: RCP y ONR (CPR & DNR)
    Enfermedad de Alzheimer's (Alzheimer's Disease)
    Planificación legal en casos de incapacidad (Legal Planning for Incapacity)
    Tecnología digital para los cuidadores familiares
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    Demencia (Dementia)
    Wernicke-Korsakoff (SWK)
    Sea prudente... ¡Vacúnese! (Be Wise...Immunize!)
    El cuidado de sus padres junto con sus hermanos (Caregiving with Your Siblings)
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