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Awareness Rising: The Future of Caregiving
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Experts stress caregiving awareness; hospice care users share how it deepened their bond
As America’s aging population begins to outnumber children, Melanie Highland emphasizes that raising awareness about caregiving resources may be essential to helping Missouri prepare for the future, while Sharon Wingert shares how finding hospice care not only supported her late husband’s final days but also strengthened their bond through compassion, clarity, and love.
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Awareness Rising: The Future of Caregiving
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As America’s aging population begins to outnumber children, Melanie Highland emphasizes that raising awareness about caregiving resources may be essential to helping Missouri prepare for the future, while Sharon Wingert shares how finding hospice care not only supported her late husband’s final days but also strengthened their bond through compassion, clarity, and love.
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[MUSIC PLAYING] MELANIE HIGHLAND: We know that the number of seniors over the next less than 10 years is going to outnumber the number of children.
As a system, I think we need to be thinking of, are we ready for that?
The top need that we know from people who identify as caregivers is the need to navigate those services.
Where do you go when you need help?
If you're only aware of maybe 30% of the services, then that's where you're going to direct that individual.
Not understanding the wider availability and how to even navigate that.
I didn't know what I was going to do because it was getting harder for me to take care of him.
Sometimes you just think that there's no one or anything out there, but there is, and there's options.
One day my girlfriend and I were talking, and she says, "Why don't you consider hospice?"
And I go, "Well, he's not dying."
And she goes, "No, it's not just for that anymore.
It's for comfort care."
I didn't know that.
I called hospice, and they came out.
They explained their program to me.
The next day, they had the bed in.
They had the supplies in.
Everything that was needed.
And the day after that, I started had a regimen of people coming into the house.
And I will admit, it was scary, but honestly, it was the best thing we did.
I never met such compassionate people in my life.
They really cared about John and me.
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