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Respite Care Program
Funding To Continue
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In-home respite care provides a stimulating change of pace for the
patient, as well as the caregiver.
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this time she can go to the doc-
tor, the bank or the store, and
know her mother is in good
hands.
One family benefiting from
the Fisher Fund grant (case
material has been disguised) in-
cludes three children, one ter-
minally ill parent and the other
parent left to support the family
and care for the ill spouse. With
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Friday, July 11, 1986
Citing the importance of fam-
ily involvement in caring for the
disabled elderly, the Max M.
Fisher Jewish. Community
Foundation of United Jewish
Charities- has approved contin-
ued funding for an in-home re-
spite care program through
Jewish Family Service.
United Jewish Charities is the
Jewish Welfare Federation
agency that manages communal
assets.
Nowadays, about 75 percent of
all disabled, frail, chronically or
terminally ill people are cared
for in their own homes. Their
caregivers are often in pressing
need of respite, even if only for
a few hours a day or a week.
Coordinated through Jewish
Family Service, respite care
helps prevent premature place-
ment of the patient in a nursing
home -by relieving the stress
that constant caregiving brings.
Almost 100 families have re-
ceived more than 8,000 hours of
respite care since the program
began in December 1984. The
program currently serves 30
clients, with almost 30 percent
of this care provided to families
of the terminally ill.
A typical situation involves a
widowed woman in her 70s who
takes care of her 95-year-old
mother. The caregiver has
health programs of her own, in-
cluding a weak heart and hyper-
tension, but doesn't want to put
her mother in a nursing home.
Through in-home respite care,
the daughter is able to get one
afternoon a week to herself. In
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
respite care twice a week, the
well parent can get a much
needed break and spend some
time alone with the children.
Supported in part by a grant
from the Area Agency on Aging
1-B, United Community Serv-
ices' regional planning organiza-
tion for older Americans, the
program was rated high priority
by the Task Force on
CoMmunity-Based Services to
the Non-Institutionalized El-
derly.
Dr. Conrad Giles, chairman of
the task force, said "We need- to
look for non-traditional ways of
serving the elderly in their
homes. The respite care program
is only one example of the grow-
Respite care helps
prevent premature
placement in
nursing homes.
ing number of outreach pro-
grams Federation and its agen-
cies have embarked upon, with
Allied Jewish Campaign, gov-
ernment and United Foundation
funds. There is still more that
can be done."
The maximum time allowed
by the Area Agency on Aging
for respite care for the caregiver
is 168 hours per year, per case,
on a non-sectarian baSks. To
supplement this care, JFS also
offers family counseling,
homemaker services and Meals
On Wheels, in conjunction with
the National Council of Jewish
Women.
The program is not limited to
those on marginal incomes, but
is intended to serve people at all
income levels, with fees for
those who can pay on a sliding
scale.
For information on this pro-
gram, call Arlene Sukenic, re-
spite care coordinator, 559-2500.