For the first time, it would authorize Medicare payments to health care professionals to train informal caregivers who manage medications, assist loved ones and oversee the use of medical equipment…
By Judith Graham, KFF Health News
“It’s already extremely challenging to be a caregiver for someone living with dementia. The lack of training in how to care for my mother just made an impossible job even more impossible,” said LaFleur, who lives in Auburn, Washington, a Seattle suburb. Her mother passed away in March 2022. “The lack of training in how to care for my mother just made an impossible job even more impossible.”
Advocates said they favor a broad definition of caregiver. Since often several people perform these tasks, training should be available to more than one person, Resendez suggested. And since people are sometimes reimbursed by family members for their assistance, being unpaid shouldn’t be a requirement, suggested Anne Tumlinson, founder and chief executive officer of ATI Advisory, a consulting firm in aging and disability policy.
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