What makes nursing support of caregivers so important for health care in the United States?
a. Family members providing care in the home are the best caregivers.
b. Eighty percent of caregiving takes place in the home of the older adult.
c. The health care system reimburses families for caregiving from Medicare.
d. Informal caregiving saves the health care system enormous sums of money.
D
The value of caregiving is estimated at $257 billion; therefore informal caregiving is a huge sav-ings for the health care system that it might potentially be unable to provide in the event that it was called to do so.
Although family members can be the most convenient and are the least expensive, they do not necessarily make the best caregivers. Family members provide 80% of the caregiving for older adults. Caregiving is not an expense for which Medicare reimburses the family.
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