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More family members are caring for elderly, disabled or chronically ill
by L ydia L issman
People like Janet can get to feel
ing pretty lonely. In her 60s, Janet
is the sole caregiver for her 76-year-
old husband, who has Alzheimer’s
disease.
As the caregiver, Janet is re
sponsible for helping her husband
with meals, medications and other
needs o f daily life, including re
membering things that he often
forgets.
Janet’s husband, besides need
ing a great deal o f assistance, is
also far less helpful around the
house than he used to be. Nor, in
the interests of his safety, can Janet
leave her husband alone at home.
Janet may feel lonely, but she is
hardly alone.
In the next year, as many as
200,000 Oregonians will provide
some level of care at home for a
family member who is elderly, dis
abled or chronically ill. At least 80
percent o f all at-home care in O r
egon is provided by a fam ily
caregiver.
Most Oregonians are aware that
our state is a leader in providing
long-term care options for seniors
and people with disabilities. But
fewer know that help is also avail
able for family members providing
care and other support to loved
ones at home.
These are among available sup
ports:
Online help is available at the
Oregon Cares Web site, a state-
sponsored Web site that delivers a
wealth of medical, financial, legal
and other information for family
caregivers.
Caregivers who need a break
may contact the Lifespan Respite
program. Lifespan Respite can re
fer you to caregivers who will help
you get a break from caregiving to
take care of yourself (shopping,
appointments or recreation, per
haps). To locate your local office,
you may either call toll free at 866-
219-7218 or log on to.the DHS Web
site.
The Family Caregiver Support
Program provides counseling, re
spite, education, support groups
and other services for family mem
bers who are caring for individuals
age 60 and older and for grandpar
ents and other relatives age 60 and
older who are raising children and
teens underage 18. More informa
tion is available from your nearest
office of the Oregon Department of
Human Services or Area Agency
on Aging. To locate an office near
you, call toll free 800-232-3020 or
log on to the DHS Web site.
Or perhaps you live in Oregon
but want to locate resources for an
elderly family member living in an
other state. You may use the feder
ally sponsored Eldercare Locator
by calling 800-677-1116 or by log
ging on to The Eldercare Locator
Web site for local agency names,
addresses, phone numbers and e-
mail and W eb addresses.
Even with all these resources,
family caregivers need the contin
ued support of friends, neighbors
and relatives.
Each of us can lend a hand by
cooking a meal, providing a break,
doing a chore or sharing informa
tion about these resources to fam
ily caregivers.
With so much help so close, and
with good neighbors like you, fam
ily caregivers like Janet needn’t be
lonely as they perform this impor
tant work.
Lydia Lissman is Oregon D e
partment o f Human Services assis
tant di rector fo r sen iors and people
with disabilities. N ovem ber is
N a tio n a l F a m ily C a re g iv e rs
Month.
JU ST TEUU TH E TR U TH
(AP) — Scholars are objecting
to a N ational Park Service text
that does not mention that the
house in Philadelphia used by
P resident G eorge W ashington
had a slav es’ quarters attached
to it.
Instead, the Independence N a
tional H istorical P ark ’s W eb site
refers to a “ large serv an ts’ hall”
that W ashington had attached to
th e b a c k o f th e h o u s e .
No more lying, ju st tell the truth,”
said Charles L. Blockson, curator
o f the Charles L. Blockson Afro-
A m erican C ollection at Tem ple
University.
Some historians and blacks be
gan protesting last spring when
it was revealed that the park
serv ice’s new pavilion for the
Liberty Bell, scheduled to open
in 2003, w ould be located near
w h e re W a s h in g to n ’s s la v e s
lived.
The park service prom ised to
include exhibits on slavery at the
new Liberty Bell Center. A U.S.
House com m ittee also required
the park service to com m em orate
the n atio n ’s first p resid en tial
m ansion, including an acknow l
edgm ent that slaves lived and
worked there.
The house, torn down in the
1830s, was home to W ashington
and John A dam s b e fo re the
n a tio n ’s cap ita l m oved from
Philadelphia.
Park service spokesm an Phil
Sheridan said the W eb site does
not refer to a slaves’ quarters
because nobody knows w hether
the slaves had separate quarters,
or shared space with white inden
tured servants and free w hite
servants.
"Can we say it was for the ex
clusive housing and feeding of
slaves? We have no historical
evidence to say that it w as,”
Sheridan said.
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