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Family Care
Program Overview
Director:
Funding Goals: $10,000,000
Develop and Implement Services and Products
That Provide Solutions For The Family Caregiver and Aging Citizens
The vast majority of America's growing elder population continue to live outside of the institutional environments long-term care industry. In fact, nearly fourteen million senior citizens require the services of daily assistance with basic living needs. Over time, as the continuum of needs increases with growing complexities, the friends and relatives entrusted to the care of elders are presented with ever-new challenges. Resources to meet the burdensome and unique circumstances of need become overwhelming often to the point of straining the threshold of the family caregiver's level of tolerances. Aging citizens suffer the consequences in resultant family caregiver frustrations impacted by the steady decline in coping skills, financial resources and patience. Compounding these problems are the changing social circumstances driven by the youth focus and high energy necessary to the needs of a two wage earning population.
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