Modern Healthcare: Calls for family caregiver support escalate as home care grows

Modern Healthcare | August 13, 2024

In addition to publishing a new white paper on caregiver burden and health equity in hospital-at-home care, we recently spoke with Modern Healthcare about the importance of standards in caregiver screening and education.

Contessa, a unit of Amedisys, has hospital partners that carefully screen family caregivers, said Caroline Rogers, vice president of quality and safety — but she said other providers might not.

“There should be some assessment on the front end to set patients up for the safest care in the home,” Rogers said. “Sometimes [patients] get home and the [family] thinks it is too much or they think they can do it and after a couple of days, they can’t.”

The company also called for standardized education for unpaid caregivers.

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