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- Step 1: Acknowledge the challenges associated with long term care in Connecticut
- Step 2: Explore the various long-term care options and funding sources available to Connecticut residents
- Step 3: Evaluate the pros and cons of the various long term care options in Connecticut
- Step 4: Take action providing for possible long term care needs
- Step 5: Review your family circumstances and changes in long term care each year
- AARP Online Groups on Caregiving and Aging - Resources for concerned children and spouses
- Alzheimer’s Association - Information and resources for families coping with Alzheimer’s and dimentia
- Caring For Your Parents Handbook - Handbook published by the Public Broadcasting System
- Conn. Partnership for Long Term Care - News and resources from joint state government and private industry program.
- Family Caregiver Alliance - Information, Advice and Support for Caregiving
- National Alliance for Caregiving - Provides support for family caregivers
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Jun
6
Caregiving is Going High-Tech
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Here is the problem: Dad or Mom is hundreds of miles away, will not move and needs someone to look after his/her daily activities and no one is close enough to check in each day. What can be done? How about motion sensors and remote monitoring as a solution. These computer related devices are allowing children to [...]
Jun
4
Kyphon, a medical device firm, settled a fraud case by paying the federal government $75 million. The case involved the use of a device that repaired the spine and could be used in an outpatient procedure that would take about an hour. The costs of this procedure were inflated when Kyphon representatives persuaded hospitals to keep people overnight which meant [...]
Jun
2
Transition Training for Caregivers
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The opening lines of an article by Kim Painter that appeared in USA Today on May 19 begins like this:
“Do you know how to give an injection? Clean a feeding tube site? Change a bandage over a surgical wound? Transfer a frail adult from a bed to a chair? Give a pill to someone who won’t or [...]