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Welcome to the National Dialogue on Family Support. We look forward to your ideas, comments, and hearing what topics are most important to you!
The level of long-term chronic stress may be causing auto-immune conditions, particularly in older mothers. As far as I know, this has not been studied, but anecdotally, practically every older mother I know who is an active advocate, also has an auto-immune disorder. Until it is identified as a problem, no one will address it with any ideas for remedies.
We all know caregiving is difficult and requires a team. There are many resources available to caregivers but caregivers have challenges reaching out and asking for help.
Building a care team and developing a care plan can avoid some caregiver heath challenges, how do we make it okay to ask for help?
Research is needed to demonstrate how respite for family caregivers may be cost-effective in terms of preventing institutionalization of the care recipient, enabling caregivers to maintain their own good health as well as that of the care recipient, etc.
Is there any research available on the creation and maintenance of neighborhood co-operatives for caregiving for vulnerable adults?
Many adult day programs are reasonably priced but struggle will minimal attendance. The good programs provide a wide of activities to meet the needs of participants. How do they attract more participants? If it's fear on the part of potential participants and their families, how to the programs overcome it?
Caregiving results in an overall cost to business of $33.6 billion per year due to absenteeism, supervisory time, unpaid leave, and reduced hours. Family caregiving is also estimated to add another $13.4 billion or an 8% differential to healthcare business costs. How do we convince companies to provide resources to help their employees manage their jobs and their caregiving responsibilities?
If a caregiver is providing care, allow them to have a tax credit, for the sheer savings to the tax paying public of not having medicaid bear the costs of giving care. In the past 5 years, as a caregiver, I have saved taxpayers thousands and thousands of dollars by providing care to an elderly family member, versus relying on the government to care for the individual. Give credit where credit is due.