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Caregivers: MedlinePlus

 

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Caregivers

URL of this page: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/caregivers.html

 

 

Caregivers are people who take care of other adults, often parents or spouses, or children with special medical needs. Some caregivers are family members; others are paid. They help with:

• Food shopping and cooking
  
• House cleaning
  
• Paying bills
  
• Giving medicine
  
• Going to the toilet, bathing and dressing
  
• Eating
  
• Providing company and emotional support

Caregiving is hard, and caregivers of chronically ill people often feel stress. They are "on call" 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If you're caring for someone with mental problems like Alzheimer's disease it can be especially difficult. Support groups can help.

 

 

MEDICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA  

• Bathing a patient in bed
  
• Moving a patient from bed to a wheelchair
  
• Pulling a patient up in bed
  
• Turning patients over in bed

Related Topics

• Alzheimer's Caregivers
  
• Child Care
  
• Home Care Services
  
• Health System
  
• Social/Family Issues

National Institutes of Health

• The primary NIH organization for research on Caregivers is the National Institute on Aging

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