Family Caregiving: News
United Hospital Fund and Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders Publish Family Caregiver Guide That Addresses LGBT Issues
The United Hospital Fund and SAGE have partnered to create a guide to help members of the LGBT community better navigate the health care system.
Jim Tallon: New Directions
In his 2011 annual report vision statement, Fund president Jim Tallon focuses on the “innovation imperative”—and highlights recent Fund achievements that exemplify just that.
Carol Levine: Next Step in Care: A Web-based Caregiver Manual for Navigating Transitions
In recognition of Family Caregiving month, Carol Levine wrote this blog for the Family Caregiver Alliance, which published a blog a day on family caregiving through November 2011.
Carol Levine: Meeting Tomorrow’s Demand for Home Health Aides
A survey of home health aides provides clues to making the job more appealing to address the anticipated increase in demand in the coming years.
Carol Levine: A Real-World Test of a Next Step in Care Guide
Carol Levine, director of the Families and Health Care Project, discusses her recent trip to the Emergency Department and how developing materials for Next Step in Care prepared her for it.
With a New State Law Requiring Palliative Care Counseling, United Hospital Fund Focuses Attention on Practical Guide
The Palliative Care Information Act, now law, focuses attention on the Next Step in Care resource A Family Caregiver's Guide to Hospice and Palliative Care.
Carol Levine: Health Care Typecasting—"Nobody Knows My Name!"
Carol Levine, director of the Families and Health Care Project, discusses the frequent tendency of health care providers to typecast family caregivers, and she offers tools and advice on how family caregivers can overcome this obstacle.
Carol Levine: "I Can't Hear You—There's a Rattle in the Room"
Carol Levine, director of the Families and Health Care Project, discusses medicine's special language or "rattle"—filled with terms, abbreviations, and acronyms—that has special meaning to practitioners but is often meaningless, confusing, or easily misinterpreted by patients and family caregivers.
United Hospital Fund Launches Quality Improvement Initiative to Improve Patient Transitions
The Fund has launched a new initiative, Transitions in Care–Quality Improvement Collaborative, or TC–QuIC—involving 25 heath care providers working in teams to make safer and more effective transitions of seriously, chronically ill patients between health care settings.
Carol Levine: The Family Health Care Decisions Act
The Family Health Care Decisions Act , signed into law on March 16, 2010, has a simple purpose—to allow family members to make end-of-life health care decisions when the patient has not signed a health care proxy or advance directive. But its specific provisions, which go into effect on June 1, are complex.
Guides for Family Caregivers and Health Care Providers to Improve Patient Care Are Now Available in Chinese
The guides and checklists for family caregivers that are the core of the Next Step in Care website (www.nextstepincare.org) are now available in Chinese.
Carol Levine Honored as 2009 Purpose Prize Fellow
Carol Levine, director of the Families and Health Care Project at United Hospital Fund, has been named a 2009 Purpose Prize fellow.
Carol Levine: Health Care ‘Reform’ Could Overwhelm Family Caregivers
Carol Levine, director of the Families and Health Care Project, observes that long-term care and the essential role of family caregivers are striking omissions from current discussions of health reform. She writes, “As long as family caregiving is described and measured as ‘informal’ domestic chores, the traditional dismissive view of women’s work, it will not be appropriately valued.”
Carol Levine: The Missing Link in Chronic Care Coordination
This essay argues that patients and family caregivers should expect to be involved in the post-hospital plan and to have all the information, education, and support they need to make it work.
Carol Levine: All in the Family: Children as Home Health Aides
This essay addresses issues that should be addressed to help America's chilc caregivers.
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