{"id":2450973,"date":"2019-11-11T22:08:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T05:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/making-care-giving-easier\/"},"modified":"2019-11-12T08:04:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T15:04:47","slug":"making-care-giving-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/making-care-giving-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"Making care giving easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Today, 73,000 Coloradans are living with Alzheimer\u2019s or another type of dementia. Last year, 252,000 of their family members and friends provided 287 million hours of unpaid care to support their journey living with the disease. I witnessed what being one of those caregivers did to my parents for 10 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">November is National Family Caregivers Month. Congress should honor dementia caregivers by making their efforts easier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Care planning allows people with dementia and their families to plan for the future and learn about clinical trials and support services in their community. Individuals receiving dementia-specific care planning have fewer hospitalizations and emergency room visits and are better able to manage their medications. This not only helps the person with dementia, it also lowers health care costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Thankfully, Medicare covers care planning services. The problem is that most people don\u2019t know that. The Improving HOPE for Alzheimer\u2019s Act (House Resolution 1873\/S 880) would help educate health care providers about this coverage so that they can help connect more people to these services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Thank you, Sen. Michael Bennet and Rep. Scott Tipton, for standing up for Colorado\u2019s dementia caregivers by actively supporting this legislation in Congress. I hope Sen. Cory Gardner joins you soon. Care giving is hard. Thanks for trying to make it a little easier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Meaghan Ziegler<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Alzheimer\u2019s ambassador<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Carbondale<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/making-care-giving-easier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, 73,000 Coloradans are living with Alzheimer\u2019s or another type of dementia. Last year, 252,000 of their family members and friends provided 287 million hours of unpaid care to support their journey living with the disease. I witnessed what being one of those caregivers did to my parents for 10 years. 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