The Unprepared Caregiver

Years of studying health care financing and delivery does not prepare you for the actuality of dealing with a serious health event. The practical challenges of our extremely fragmented and complex health care system make it difficult to navigate this world-even when someone is there to help the pati...

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Published inThe Gerontologist Vol. 57; no. 1; p. 26
Main Author Moon, Marilyn
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.02.2017
Subjects
Caregivers
Delivery of Health Care - organization & administration
Delivery of Health Care, Integrated
Female
Humans
Male
Stroke Rehabilitation
United States
Postacute care
Stroke
Medicare
Co-ordination of care
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Summary:Years of studying health care financing and delivery does not prepare you for the actuality of dealing with a serious health event. The practical challenges of our extremely fragmented and complex health care system make it difficult to navigate this world-even when someone is there to help the patient. And, being a caregiver is a far cry from being a health care analyst. There are many lessons to be learned for improving our system: the need for skilled co-ordination support, the need for simplifying and re-orienting the various silos of postacute care, the importance of generating ways to support caregivers, and not least, promoting simple lessons in civility for providers of services.
ISSN:1758-5341
DOI:10.1093/geront/gnw080