{"id":18169,"date":"2021-05-18T07:44:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T11:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18169"},"modified":"2021-05-18T07:44:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T11:44:21","slug":"aiding-her-dying-husband-a-geriatrician-learns-the-emotional-and-physical-toll-of-caregiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18169","title":{"rendered":"Aiding Her Dying Husband, a Geriatrician Learns the Emotional and Physical Toll of Caregiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Judith Graham for <em>Kaiser Health News<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>The loss of a husband. The death of a sister. Taking in an elderly mother with dementia.<\/p>\n<p>This has been a year like none other for Dr. Rebecca Elon, who has dedicated her professional life to helping older adults.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s taught her what families go through when caring for someone with serious illness as nothing has before. \u201cReading about caregiving of this kind was one thing. Experiencing it was entirely different,\u201d she told me.\u00a0 Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/aiding-dying-husband-geriatrician-learns-emotional-physical-toll-of-caregiving\/\">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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News) The loss of a husband. The death of a sister. Taking in an<\/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-18169","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\/18169","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=18169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18170,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18169\/revisions\/18170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}