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Caregiving & Caregivers Questions and CORRECT Answers medicine management - ✔caregivers play an essential role in ________ for their care recipients caregiver - ✔a person who provides direct care to children, older adults (elderly), the chronically ill (disabled) shop for and/or prepare food cleaning pay bills give medicine help w/bathing, toileting, dressing, and eating provide company and emotional support - ✔list caregiver tasks formal caregiving - ✔are paid individuals who provide hands-on assistance to dependent adults. can work either full-time or part-time, and can be hired privately or through an agency. in-home services - ✔formal caregivers provide _______ such as: visiting nurse services, homemaker services, respite care, and home health aide services. housekeepers or chore workers homemakers home health aids, certified nurse assistants (CNA), or nurses aides registered nurses (RN), licensed practical nurses (lPN) and therapists - ✔list formal caregivers housekeepers or chore workers - ✔perform basic household tasks and light cleaning. Chore workers often do heavier types of cleaning such as washing windows and other heavy cleaning. homemakers - ✔provide meal preparation, household management, personal care, and medication reminders.
home health aids, CNAs, or nurses aides - ✔often referred to as Home Health Care Workers. provide personal care, help with bathing, transfers, walking, exercise, household services that are essential to health care, and assistance with medications. Some aides have received special training and are qualified to provide more complex services under the supervision of a nursing professional. Registered Nurses (RN), Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN) and Therapists - ✔often referred to as Skilled Nursing Care, perform duties that could not be performed safely by nonprofessional personnel. Assist with varied medical care, such as giving IV injections, tube feeding, dressing wounds, and physical, occupational or speech therapy. informal caregiving - ✔Activities and experiences involved in providing help or assistance to relatives or friends who are unable to provide for themselves. 65.7 million 375 billion - ✔Believed that there are more than 50 million informal caregivers in the U.S. (current estimate - _________) Annual value of informal caregiving to adults and children is approximately _________*. informal caregivers - ✔Individuals who provide: extraordinary, uncompensated care, predominantly in the home setting, involving significant amounts of time and energy for months or years, requiring the performance of tasks that may be physically, emotionally, socially, or financially demanding. adult child (36%) spouse (19%) other relative (11%) - ✔List informal caregivers (percentage) top 3. Family women.
18 and 49. - ✔______or friends The majority of caregivers are ______
May also have to provide financial support for the care recipient May have to quit their job or reduce hours - ✔list financial problems caregivers face objective burden - ✔The time and effort required of one person to attend to the needs of another person. subjective burden - ✔Emotional impact of caregiving demands experienced by caregivers. Burden Care Recipient Mental Functioning Care Recipient Physical Functioning Care Recipient Global Functioning Medication Complexity Age of Caregiver Age of Care Recipient Length of Time Caregiving Stress Family Caregiver Medication Administration Hassles - ✔List burdens and stress associate with caregiving partner (71%) parent (60%) spouse (56%) sibling (54%) child (50%) - ✔List top 5 caregivers reporting burden partner (38%) spouse (26%) sibling (25%) other/child (24%) friend (22%) - ✔List top 5 caregivers reporting sometimes or frequently too much to handle
depression respite care - ✔Just over one in five (22%) have been told by a health professional that they have _________ Overall 39% of caregivers reported needing _________; only half of that number say they received it. "aging" (15.5%) mobility problems (10.4%) dementia (9.7%) 43.2% with various chronic diseases including heart disease, cancer, stroke, arthritis, diabetes, and pulmonary disease (COPD). - ✔The main illness or problems experienced by care recipients in the study were identified, by groupings, as: shopping (77%) driving (72%) housework and cooking (68%) dressing (45%) walking (38%) - ✔List top 5 caregiving ADLs/IADLs Aside from ADLs/IADLs, medicine-related activities are integral to care-giving In the case of children, parents often have additional roles relative to medication use outside the home, (e.g., schools, friends' homes, camp) Caring situations differ widely Need to be proactive in helping caregiver and care-recipient - ✔List caregiver roles in medication management collecting care recipient (CR) prescription medication from pharmacy taking CR prescriptions to pharmacy buying non-prescription meds or other remedies for CR - ✔List top 3 caregiving activities related to medication
Currently support for caregivers from health care providers, including pharmacists, is limited. Try to involve the informal caregiver in consultations. Inform other health care providers if a caregiving/care-recipient relationship is suspected to exist. Pharmacists must balance confidentiality against the care-recipient receiving proper care. - ✔List ways to reduce communication problems of caregiving children and youth - ✔__________Are major group of care-recipients Children take increasing responsibility as age Chronically ill children have more medicine responsibilities, some shared with adults Good care - ✔_______is dependent upon pharmacist's understanding of caregiver medication-related roles and challenges. Recognize both expertise of caregiver and limitations of caregiver. Communication (pharmacist, caregiver, care-recipient) specialist and non-specialist services - ✔Pharmacist can help integrate _____ and
This is a recognized challenge for pharmacists. Greater communication between hospital based and community based pharmacists (post hospital consultations with caregiver and recipient) proactive in addressing potential problems - ✔Pharmacist should be ___________. changes in prescriptions, assistance in maintaining supplies and scheduling refill
