Resource Center

This web page from the Caregiver Resource Center provides an overview of Medicare benefits, including eligibility,enrollment, and what is covered under Parts A, B, C, and D. It discusses Medicare coverage of in-home, residential, and skilled nursing and rehabilitation care. It also discusses how advance care planning fits into Medicare.

Source: Caring.com, 2022.
https://www.caring.com/

This web page from the Caregiver Resource Center answers various questions regarding long-term care insurance such as who should get it, who qualifies for it, and how much does it cost. It also discusses what long-term care insurance covers and the tax benefits for having this type of insurance.

Source: Caring.com, 2021.
https://www.caring.com/caregivers/

This web page provides nutritional tips for making eating easier for people with dementia. The tips include making mealtimes easier, encouraging independence, and minimizing eating and nutrition problems.

Source: Alzheimer's Association, 2023.
alz.org/help-support/caregiving/daily-care

This web page provides links to peer-reviewed fast facts related to end-of-life and palliative care. Fast facts cover topics such as medication use, common complications such as constipation and delirium, care of specific diseases, family meetings and delivering bad news. There is a search bar for searching topics. Each fact page can be downloaded as a PDF.

Source: Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin, 2023.
https://www.mypcnow.org/

These info cards provide a standardized summary of commonly used measurement tools for delirium in adults. The info cards include screening tools and assessments for delirium identification and severity. The info cards are available as PDFs.

Source: Network for Investigation of Delirium: Unifying Scientists, 2018.
https://deliriumnetwork.org/measurement/delirium-info-cards/

This web page from the Caregiver Resource Center discusses financial questions to ask your aging loved ones, and includes a step by step process to manage a parent's finances. It also describes government benefits for elder caregivers and caregiver taxes.

Source: Caring.com.
https://www.caring.com/caregivers/

This web page from the Caregiver Resource Center discusses caregiver support groups and seven ways they can help. It also provides ten organizations caregivers should know about as well as the best caregiver books, blogs, podcasts, and apps.

Source: Caring.com, 2021.
https://www.caring.com/caregivers/

This web page from the Caregiver Resource Center helps caregivers create a dementia care plan while helping them understand how to deal with common dementia-related hygiene problems and sundowning syndrome. It also discusses hallucinations and delusions in dementia patients and creative techniques for talking to a loved one with dementia. Finally, it provides activities for adults with dementia and various ways to keep someone with dementia active.

Source: Caring.com.
https://www.caring.com/caregivers/

This web page from the Caregiver Resource Center describes the different kinds of elder abuse (physical, sexual, verbal, financial, and emotional) and elder identity theft, and why older adults are suceptible to malicious abuse. It discusses caregiver situations that may prompt unintentional abuse, includes risk factors, and signs of abuse. It also discusses how a family member can protect elder loved ones from abuse.

Source: Caring.com.
https://www.caring.com/caregivers/

This web page from the Caregiver Resource Center discusses how families can plan for end-of-life care. It describes how to have a "good death" as well as the process of saying goodbye and grieving. Finally, it provides the stages of grief along with things a caregiver may feel during those stages or what one may notice.

Source: Caring.com, 2023.
https://www.caring.com/caregivers/