The Iowa Alzheimer’s Association chapter is making new resources available to caregivers during November, a month set aside to educate and help people with the disease and those who care for them.
Nearly 100-thousand Iowans are family caregivers, helping more than 62-thousand people living with this form of dementia. Erica Eikern with the Alzheimer’s Association Iowa chapter says the group is making a huge effort this month in particular to get resources to those caregivers, letting them know they are not alone…
Nationally, nearly half of all caregivers who provide help to older adults are doing so for someone with Alzheimer’s disease, according to data on the association’s facts and figures website. Eikern says the association is working at the state level to give those caregivers some respite options…
Those resources are also available on the association’s website. More than 11-million people in the U-S are providing unpaid care to a person living with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia. Last year alone, that care was valued at more than 346-billion-dollars.
(credit to Iowa News Service)
