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Increasing Provider Awareness Around Siblings Of Individuals With Intellectual And/Or Developmental Disability (Idd), Louisa Moore
Increasing Provider Awareness Around Siblings Of Individuals With Intellectual And/Or Developmental Disability (Idd), Louisa Moore
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Siblings of individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD) are not often thought of as a group that needs support in the primary care setting. However, the literature on siblings demonstrates that they have a variety of needs, including support with future planning, caregiving, and their mental and physical health. This project aims to increase awareness of the unique experiences of siblings as well as suggest changes that can be implemented in primary care to provide better support.
Caring For Caregivers, Lily Deng
Caring For Caregivers, Lily Deng
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Aging populations and chronic conditions have shifted care from hospital settings to community and family settings, caregiver burden is increasing. This project was focused on understanding the factors that impact the wellbeing of caregivers of patients with chronic conditions/cancer. Focus is also on identifying barriers to accessing support and increasing awareness of available community support resources.
Caring For An Aging Loved One, Meredith Ann Lackie
Caring For An Aging Loved One, Meredith Ann Lackie
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Caregivers serve as a critical extension of US health care system. Approximately 80% of adults requiring long-term care currently live at home in the community, and unpaid family caregivers provide 90% of their care. Among caregivers, 81 % feel inadequately trained for the skills they perform and those who report the highest burden are more likely to be less educated, to live with the care recipient, and to perceive they had no choice in assuming the caregiver role. The goal of this project was to identify local resources available for caregivers and to understand the barriers to accessing these supports. …
Caregiver Burden: Finding Resources, Offering Support, Sarah Johnson
Caregiver Burden: Finding Resources, Offering Support, Sarah Johnson
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
- Definition: Informal caregivers are unpaid individuals (often a spouse, partner, family member, friend or neighbor) involved in supporting others in activities of daily living.
- Caregiver burden is an emerging public health issue largely attributed to longer life expectancy that not only increases the number of elderly individuals, but also the level of dependency in these individuals.
- Despite many formal support services, informal support continues to be the primary source of care for the elderly, dependent and disabled.
- Unpaid family caregivers will likely continue to be the primary source of long-term care in the United States as …