What is it about?
This articles advocates for an expansion of services that health-care professionals (particularly speech therapists) provide to care partners of individuals with impairments such as aphasia and dementia.
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Why is it important?
Care partners of patients can have multiple unmet or complex needs. By considering them as “primary clients,” health care professionals can provide (directly or through interdisciplinary referrals) services to substantially address these needs.
Perspectives
Care partners are also primary clients of health care professionals.
Dr. Adithya Chandregowda
Nova Southeastern University
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This page is a summary of: Front and Center: Elevating Care Partners to Primary Clients, Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, April 2025, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2025_persp-24-00211.
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