A group of patients with early Alzheimer's disease and their spouses approach you regarding help with the establishment of a local Alzheimer's Society for the support and education of affected individuals and their families
As a manager in an ambulatory care clinic, what suggestion or advice would you offer this group? a. Self-help groups are, by nature, directed, funded, and led by those requiring help, and therefore, the patients and families should need no help from your clinic.
b. Your healthcare organization would be pleased to help as long as your organiza-tion financially takes over responsibility for direction, leadership, and management.
c. Through partnership, you will provide supports, if possible, that the patients and spouses themselves identify as necessary in the establishment of the group.
d. The services that the patients and spouses are proposing are likely being offered somewhere else already.
C
Self-help groups often are made up of, and are directed by, peers who have healthcare needs. A growing trend is the development of community-based geriatric organizations in partnership with healthcare organizations. The request of the patients and their spouses indicates that this service is needed in the community and that they are looking for assistance in setting up the Alzheimer's Society rather than having your agency take over the management of the group.
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