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A caregiver can be a relative, friend or professional health worker who provides care to someone who cannot care for himself or herself due to a disability or functional limitation. The care can include: non-medical care such as help with bathing, eating, or household chores, or medical care such as changing dressings.

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  1. Tips for Modifying the Home
    This list offers suggestions on how to go about modifying the home to better prevent accidents.
  2. Last Wishes for Procedures at Time of Death
    Provide peace of mind to loved ones by using this checklist to communicate your final wishes.
  3. Hypothermia: A Cold Weather Hazard
    National Institute on Aging
    Cold weather is very risky for older people. The winter chill can lower the temperature inside your body
  4. Dietary Supplements: More is Not Always Better
    National Institute on Aging
    Today's dietary supplements can contain vitamins, minerals, fiber, amino acids, herbs, or hormones in them.
  5. How To Know If Help is Needed
    National Institute on Aging
    In some cases, the sudden start of a severe illness will make it clear that help is needed. In other cases, your relative may...
  6. Power Wheelchairs and User Safety
    AbleData
    The National Institute for Rehabilitation Engineering (NIRE) is a non-profit organization which operated clinics to design...
  7. Motorized Scooters and User Safety (Electric Scooters for Disabled People)
    AbleData
    Motorized scooters are seen by some people as offering advantages over power wheelchairs, but there are some safety issues to consider.
  8. Vision Aids for People Sighted in One Eye
    AbleData
    Read about successful clinical methods developed and used over a 20-year period for assisting individuals having vision in one eye.
  9. Home Diagnostic Kits: The Ultimate House Call? by USFDA
    US Dept of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service
    Home diagnostics kits can save you time, but their use in the diagnosis of serious diseases is raising red flags among health professionals.
  10. The First Step: Discussing the Need for Long-Term Care
    By Attorney Joseph L. Matthews, Nolo
    An open discussion can secure the right kind of long term care at the right time.
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