What is it about?
This article explores the causes of financial hardships of caregiving, reviews Medicaid home and community-based interventions, and related government financial supports that have been used to alleviate them and concludes with recommendations for social work practice and social policy.
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Why is it important?
Without understanding the unmet needs of informal caregivers and the insufficient funding support and integrative HCBS programs, it is difficult for U.S. society to achieve the goal of “aging in place” and to attain an ideal system that is “person centered, professionally rewarding, integrated, afford- able, accountable, community based, and consumer directed”
Perspectives
Many caregivers of individuals who are frail and elderly face financial hard- ships that have negative consequences that compound over time. I hope this article can remind the government to concern the economic burdens informal caregivers face when caring for the frail elderly as well as the programs that exist to alleviate their economic hardships.
Ming Sheng Wang
National Taipei University
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This page is a summary of: Assisting Caregivers with Frail Elderly in Alleviating Financial Hardships, Social Work in Public Health, August 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/19371918.2018.1504705.
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