Caregiving

It’s hard to know exactly what long-term care services you’ll need, for how long you’ll need them, or whether you’ll have family or friends that will be able to provide all or part of the care for you. If you do have family or friends that provide care for you, you should be aware of how it will change their lives, finances, careers and families.

Additionally, researchers have found that caregiving can profoundly affect caregivers. They have found that caregivers are less healthy compared to non-caregivers and tend to exhibit more of the following:

• Decreased ability to fight illness 
• Slower healing rates 
• Higher hospitalization rates
• Higher death rates 
• Higher incidence of headaches, gastro-intestinal problems and insomnia
• Increased risk of heart disease 
• Increased rates of poor general health

The National Alliance for Caregiving is dedicated to providing support to family caregivers and the professionals who help them and to increasing public awareness of issues facing family caregivers.

Think about people you know who have needed long-term care and consider that unfortunately, it could happen to you at anytime.

This web site may contain concepts that have legal, accounting and tax implications. It is not intended to provide legal, accounting or tax advice. You may wish to consult a competent attorney, tax advisor, or accountant. PLEASE NOTE: If there are links on this page they are provided strictly as a courtesy and the pages referenced are maintained by external sources. There is not guaranteed as to the accuracy of the information contained in the web sites you are linking to.

Copyright © 2009