HeyJaredCaregiving Reflections
Every Sunday, Denise M. Brown writes reflections on the personal caregiving experience and how we can better support those who care for a family member.
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The Demanding Work of Caregiving (opens the original)
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Why Is Caregiving So Hard? (opens the original)
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Can We Count You In? Deadline to Tell Medicare You Deserve Support Is September 14 (opens the original)
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Our Systems Experience, Doodled (opens the original)
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After my mom died, I struggled to work through my experience navigating the systems during her end of life. I’m a writer, but to make sense of this experience, I took out a Sharpie and a piece of paper to create this:<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="48
What’s the Value of 500 Family Caregivers? (opens the original)
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In May, I decided to build a calculator to better understand your value. I had released other calculators as part of a care economy series to demonstrate the cost of not supporting family caregivers. The missing calculator, I decided, was the one that takes into account the scope of your work and then crunches the numbers to deliver your value. Since launching, more than 500 family caregivers have calculated their value. The data proves your worth:The Numbers$1,070,131,744 in total lifetime valu
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