NPR's 'Morning Edition' Examines Family Caregivers Over Age 75

Main Category: Caregivers / Homecare
Also Included In: Seniors / Aging
Article Date: 20 Mar 2006 - 17:00 PDT

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People ages 75 and older provide more hours of caregiving than people in any other age group, according to a recent study by the Urban Institute, NPR's "Morning Edition" reports. The NPR segment profiles Clarice Morant -- a Washington, D.C., resident who is 101 and provides care for her elderly brother and sister -- and examines the physical toll of the "lifting, pulling and all-through-the-night work of caregiving." According to George Tayler, the family's physician, it is not uncommon for family members to provide much of the medical care for relatives. "When the need is there, they step up and find the ability to do" things they might not have imagined themselves doing -- such as managing ventilators, feeding tubes and wound care -- Tayler said (Shapiro, "Morning Edition," 3/16). A transcript of the segment is available online.

The complete segment is available online in RealPlayer.

An abstract of an Urban Institute study on the elderly, long-term care and family caregivers is available online. The complete study is available online. Note: You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the study.

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