How TheCareGivingLife works

1. The CareGiving Life

The Basics

• The Baby Boomers: The final chapter of an epidemic of chronic diseases.
• A perfect storm for a chronic disease epidemic.
• Treating the 21 million baby boomers who suffer from advanced chronic disease.
• Easing Suffering
• Reducing Wasted Medical Spending

2. Focus on Family CareGivers & Home Health Workers

Heroes

• Building Clinical Skills
• Reducing Social Isolation

3. Disease-Specific Disease Management

4. Controlling Cost

• Advanced chronic disease patients comprise just 5% of the population, but spend 50% of our health care dollars.
• How hospitalization runs up costs.
• Focusing
• Avoidable spending
• Controlling costs

5. A Status Quo for Care that Doesn't Work

Patients who can't take care of themselves

• Why we can't rely on patients to manage their own their diseases
• Cognitive deficits
• Physical limitations
• Decades of self neglect

How medicine has convinced itself that these patients don't need help

• The three fallacies
• Scare tactics work
• Patients should manage their own chronic diseases
• Teach it once and they will learn

6. What Will Work

• Advanced disease
• Medication adherence
• Warning sign recognition
• Sensible, humane choices during the last year of life

7. A Community of CareGivers

• Daily Content
• Education and entertainment that speaks specifically to cultures
• Making friends and rediscovering life for caregivers