Americans spend $200 billion each year on dementia care, and the figure is rising as the baby boomers age. New programs and tools can help caregivers shoulder the burden.
Robot pets, counseling for caregivers and other tools can help patients avoid costly nursing-home placementA colleague called the other day, asking for help finding care for her brother, who was recently diagnosed with dementia.
That’s a common enough request, but this colleague is a doctor, and she had already taken her brother to an elite academic medical center that did lots of tests and offered to enroll him in research studies. That wasn’t the help her brother was looking for, however, or at least not all of it. He wanted to know how long he could keep working, how he should organize his finances, and how long he could live at home as his illness progressed.
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