{"id":14679,"date":"2019-12-05T11:06:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T16:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14679"},"modified":"2019-12-05T11:07:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T16:07:07","slug":"as-his-wifes-caregiver-a-doctor-discovers-whats-missing-at-health-cares-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14679","title":{"rendered":"As His Wife\u2019s Caregiver, A Doctor Discovers What\u2019s Missing At Health Care\u2019s Core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Caring for someone with a serious illness stretches people spiritually and emotionally, often beyond what they might have thought possible.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Arthur Kleinman, a professor of psychiatry and anthropology at Harvard University, calls this \u201cenduring the unendurable\u201d in his recently published book, \u201cThe Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The book describes Kleinman\u2019s awakening to the realities of caregiving when his beloved wife, Joan, was diagnosed with a rare form of early Alzheimer\u2019s disease that causes blindness as well as cognitive deterioration.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/as-his-wifes-caregiver-a-doctor-discovers-whats-missing-at-health-cares-core\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News) Caring for someone with a serious illness stretches people spiritually and emotionally, often<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-alzheimersdementia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14681,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14679\/revisions\/14681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}