For the month of November, we are recognizing National Family Caregivers Month.
This month is a chance to celebrate family caregivers as well as provide awareness and support of caregiving experiences and issues.
Throughout this month, we have been highlighting papers from over the years that illuminate this role through a health policy lens.
Take a moment to look back at a number of featured articles.
In the January 2022 issue, Norma Coe and Rachel Werner find that informal caregivers provide considerable front-line support in residential care facilities and nursing homes.
In the 2022 Disability and Health theme issue, Courtney Van Houtven observes that integrating family caregivers into the health care team is particularly important and valuable for patients with intellectual disabilities.
In September 2021, HwaJung Choi and coauthors explore family care availability and what implications that could have for informal and formal care utilized by adults with dementia in the US. She also spoke on our podcast A Health Podyssey discussing the article.
In the 2019 Community Care For High-Need Patients theme issue, Katherine Ornstein and coauthors consider the effects of caregiving in the last years of life on surviving spouses and how this can result in increased depression as well as negative health outcomes.
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