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Optum Care Network – Utah and Landmark Health bring care to you at home.
Optum Care Network – Utah has teamed up with Landmark to deliver in-home medical care to members with multiple chronic conditions.
There’s no real training program for family caregivers, but there are things you can do to make it easier when the time comes that you need to step in to help your parents.
There’s no real training program for family caregivers, but there are things you can do to make it easier when the time comes that you need to step in to help your parents.
November, which is National Family Caregiver Month, is a good time to go through what they are.
The simplest, but perhaps most useful thing is to get a looseleaf notebook. Into that book you will enter all sorts of information you will eventually need to know. In so doing, you will have conversations with your mom and dad on vital topics that typically never get raised until it is too late.
(MORE: Help Parents Avoid Unwanted Medical Treatment)
So what should go in the book? Start with the basics:
Now that you have done such a good job getting ready to take on your parents’ affairs, is it time you did the same thing for yourself?
Optum Care Network – Utah has teamed up with Landmark to deliver in-home medical care to members with multiple chronic conditions.
By: Chris Morris, MSPAS, PA-C, Behavioral Health Consultant
Home-based medical care may be the winning prescription for our growing senior population.