One quarter of all family caregivers of Alzheimer's disease patients succumb to the stress of providing care to a loved one and become hospital patients themselves, according to a new study in the ...
Many caregivers must balance working a full- or part-time job with caring for their loved ones. According to a new RAND Report, there are an estimated 105.6 million family caregivers in the United ...
The health-care industry is directing its focus to home health care, thereby creating what the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts will be a 70 percent surge in positions for in-home caregivers, ...
Caregivers in the U.S. Thirty percent of U.S. adults say they help a loved one with personal needs or household chores, managing finances, arranging for outside services, or visiting regularly to see ...
Today is the tenth anniversary of National Caregivers Day. Observed on the third Friday of February, it was originally intended to serve as a reminder of those who selflessly provide direct care to ...
A new California bill that will grant workers protection for “family caregiver status” has left the senate floor and is awaiting Governor Gavin Newsom’s signature. If it is approved by the October 14 ...
Editor's Note: For more on informal caregivers and related issues, see Bridging Troubled Waters: Family Caregivers, Transitions, And Long-Term Care and other articles in the January issue of Health ...
INDIANAPOLIS – One quarter of all family caregivers of Alzheimer's disease patients succumb to the stress of providing care to a loved one and become hospital patients themselves, according to an ...