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Caregiving

A conversation about caregiver wellness and brain health with journalist Richard Lui and Dr. Kate Zhong
AARP, lawmakers and others are looking at neighborhood networks as a way to help provide services to older residents — possibly helping them stay in their homes longer.
It Takes More than Love to Care for a Loved One.Every day over 800,000 Washingtonians perform a great labor of love: caring for older parents, spouses, and other loved ones so they can remain at home—where they want to be.
Washington's "Caring for Caregivers" video podcast series features discussions with local experts, community leaders, and caregivers just like you on a range of topics to help you along your caregiving journey.
Advocates are pressing state lawmakers to ensure Washingtonians living in long-term care facilities receive the same rights — including protection from wrongful discharges or evictions — whether they live in a nursing home, assisted living facility, adult family home or other type of institution.
By George Dicks, Geriatric Mental Health Practitioner with Harborview Mental Health and Addiction Service
For the first time since AARP began publishing the Scorecard in 2011, more than half of Medicaid long-term care dollars nationwide for older adults and people with physical disabilities went to home- and community-based services instead of nursing homes and other institutions.
Washington's "Caring for Caregivers" video podcast series features discussions with local experts, community leaders, and caregivers just like you on a range of topics to help you along your caregiving journey.
November is National Family Caregivers Month, which seeks to shine a bright light on the more than 48 million American heroes, including 820,000 here in Washington state, helping care for their loved ones independently at home – where they want to be.
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