Helping You Work Well with Family Caregivers

The Caregiving Years: Educational Materials Posters and A How-To Manual, Important Tools to Position You and Your Organization as THE RESOURCE for Family Caregivers in Your Area Based on The Caregiving Years, developed and written by Denise M. Brown, Publisher and Editor, Caregiving.com These educational materials help health care professionals anticipate and understand what services and support family caregivers will need and when they need them. Having this information is critical to a successful relationship between a health care professional and a family caregiver. A family caregiver, often overwrought with worry and guilt, will find it difficult to communicate the true needs of the family. And, without the input of the family caregiver, a health care professional may often misunderstand the true needs of the family. The concept and its related educational materials resulted from Denise's eleven years of working with family caregivers. "When I worked with family caregivers in home care and nursing home settings," Denise says, "I often wondered: Am I providing the services that these families need? And, am I making a positive impact in their family caregiver experiences? "The manual and the posters are just the information I wish I had." Order at our Online Store! Tell a friend about this article:

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