Caregiving Programs and Resources
Individuals and families now face major challenges caring for elder family members, balancing work, personal issues, and other life obligations. WILL has engaged in a major effort to explore the issues facing caregivers, in partnership with service providers and community organizations. We received a Governor’s Award for Excellence from the Illinois Department on Aging for this work. We present here programs and resources to make a difference.
WILL-AM 580 aired Heart to Heart: Caring for the Dying
1 pm Saturday, November 28, 2002
The program raises questions about dying and explores some of the answers.
Program 1: Beyond Pain focuses on making death less painful, as a large percentage of Americans die today in severe and unnecessary pain.
Program II: Children Sometimes Die examines the kind of support that families need during this unbelievably difficult experience.
Program III: Respecting Diversity looks at how the assumptions behind "good end-of-life care" do not necessarily meet the needs of people who are not white and middle class.
WILL programming on caregiving is a collaborative effort between WILL and the Alzheimer’s Association, Greater Illinois Chapter; East Central Illinois Area Agency on Aging; Family Service Senior Resource Center; Family Service Self Help Center; Senior Services, a program of the Champaign County Regional Planning Commission; Provena Case Management Unit; PATH Senior Services; gerontologist Linda Lopez; and University of Illinois Extension.
Related links:
- Beyond Burden: Caregiving as a Basic Human Need, a WILL-TV production that examined the joy and creativity involved in caring for someone you love (Jan 30, 2003)
- Focus 580 archive: Resources for Caregivers (Oct 22, 2002)
- Focus 580 archive: Respite and In-home Services (Nov 26, 2002)
- Focus 580 archive: Depression in the Elderly and Among Caregivers (Dec 23, 2002)
- Focus 580 archive: Caregiving & the Workforce (Jan 28, 2003)
- Afternoon Magazine archive: Overview and Caregiving Stories (Oct 14, 2002)
- Afternoon Magazine archive: Memory Impairment/Dementia (Nov 11, 2002)
- Afternoon Magazine archive: Caring for the Caregiver (Dec 9, 2002)
- Afternoon Magazine archive: Housing Options (Jan 13, 2003)
