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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. Communicating Effectively with Insurance Company Personnel
    National Family Caregivers Association
    The following excerpt provides you with practical information for interacting with insurance company personnel, one of the categories of healthcare professionals we all encounter as family caregivers...
  2. A Family Caregivers Support Group Guide
    By Nancy Carson, National Family Caregivers Association
    Support groups are a fact of modern life-whether for people dealing with divorce or life-threatening disease-and more and more for family caregivers. According to an article in the textbook Psychiatric Nursing, over …
  3. What is Long-distance Caregiving?
    National Institute on Aging
    Long-distance caregiving takes many forms—from helping manage the money to arranging for in-home care; from providing...
  4. Where Do You Hold Your Tension
    Stress is synonymous with family caregiving, although we all deal with it differently and our bodies react to it in different ways. Research has shown that family caregivers age prematurely, are more likely to experi…
  5. Caregiver Guide: Tips for Caregivers of People with Alzheimer's Disease
    National Institute on Aging
    Here are some strategies to help the caregiver manage daily living activities with an Alzheimer's patient, and cope with larger issues.
  6. Caregiver's Guide to Understanding Dementia Behaviors
    Family Caregiver Alliance
    Caring for a loved one with dementia poses many challenges for families and caregivers. People with...
  7. Caregiving is About Relationships
    By Suzanne Mintz, National Family Caregivers Association
    Some things are obvious, and yet that doesn't mean we know how to deal with them. For instance, we all know that relationships, by definition, are about the interactions between people. Caregiving is a special t…
  8. Intimacy: A Casualty of Caregiving
    By Pat Kaufman and Nancy Carson, National Family Caregivers Association
    There is a hidden cost to caregiving. It's not a financial expense, although you may be paying a pretty steep price. It's measured in emotional currency and there are no insurance policies to guarantee you …
  9. RESPITE: Time Out for Caregivers Part 2
    By Nancy Carson, National Family Caregivers Association
    Family, friends, and professional counselors talk a great deal about respite-allowing a family caregiver to turn over full responsibility for their loved one to someone else so they can get some rest, restore their o…
  10. Making Decisions During a Crisis
    When faced with a decision that's not significant (where to go for dinner, what movie to rent), allowing someone else to take control is often the easiest thing to do. But what happens when you are faced with a cruci…
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