Alzheimer's Reading Room: Alzheimer's Caregivers Go it Alone: Alzheimer's Reading Room
Here are two things I learned while reading that report.
* Most Caregivers go it alone.
* Only half (50 percent) rely on an outside service like a home health aide.
* Only 45 percent rely on family or friends for help in providing care to the patient.
As far as I am concerned, both numbers are too low. Although, it does have me wondering what came first the chicken or the egg?
Are Caregivers going it alone because they are failing to ask for help? Too overwhelmed to seek outside help? Are they failing to ask their family for help?
Or, are family members and friends all to happy to stand on the sideline for the reasons I mentioned in my article?
via Alzheimer’s Reading Room: Alzheimer’s Cargiver’s Go it Alone.
Posted on May 1, 2009 | No Comments | Category: Alzheimer's, Caregiving |
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