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DID YOU KNOW that you have LEGAL RIGHTS as a caregiver? Caregivers often experience numerous unscheduled days off work and sometimes separation from employment due to their caregiving responsibilities. In the U.S. there are laws in place to protect you and your career. The Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) regulations protect Alzheimer’s caregivers against job or benefit loss and allow caregivers to take time off work to provide care. For more information, contact the Department of Labor’s FMLA office at…..
AS THE HOLLYWOOD LIGHTS DIM – Hollywood can be a great platform to provide mass exposure to many of the issues and challenges that plague society. For example, the film Still Alice (http://sonyclassics.com/stillalice/) portrays some of the challenges families endure when one family member suffers from the Alzheimer’s disease. Currently there is a peak interest while the movie, cable television, and DVR are popular. However, when the lights of the theatre dissipate and the box office numbers dwindle, the real-life…..
Watch / Read the fascinating story of B. Smith and her husband (caregiver) as they battle the Alzheimer’s disease. http://www.today.com/…/i-am-fighting-right-now-b-smith-livi… ‘I am fighting right now’: B. Smith on her battle against Alzheimer’s In the beginning it was just an issue of forgetfulness, a subtle symptom, as it turned out, of a very serious illness, Barbara Smith… TODAY.COM|BY LINDA CARROLL
Did you know . . . Gender differences are a distinct demographic in reference to the employment challenges faced by working full-time caregivers of a relative with Alzheimer’s disease. Primary caregivers near the end of the twentieth century were most often women in their fifties. Later research indicated that among both male and female caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients, the ratios were 26% men to 65% women. Women remain approximately two-thirds of the unpaid caregivers in the twenty-first century.
The film Still Alice (http://sonyclassics.com/stillalice/) portrays some of the challenges families endure when one family member suffers from the Alzheimer’s disease. Many of these challenges are noted by real people in the book Caregiving Fulltime and Working Fulltime. It’s like the cliché, “art imitates life.”
Welcome. My name is Keith Washington, author of Caregiving Full-Time and Working Full-Time. I’m so happy to have you as a visitor to my blog about my new book. This project is very special to me, and I hope to share some of that excitement with you here. I’ll be using this blog to interact with you about Caregiving Full-Time and Working Full-Time, expanding on some of the topics in it and blogging on some of the ideas related to…..
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