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Welcome to AwareGiver, your caregiver's oasis on the airwaves, where host David Happe brings you the pulse of home caregiving. Tune in for the latest trends, breaking news, and indispensable...
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Welcome to AwareGiver, your caregiver's oasis on the airwaves, where host David Happe brings you the pulse of home caregiving. Tune in for the latest trends, breaking news, and indispensable insights tailored to caregivers. From technological innovations to heartwarming stories, join us as we navigate the ever-changing world of caregiving with empathy and expertise. Whether you're a seasoned caregiver or just starting your journey, AwareGiver is your go-to destination for staying informed, empowered, and inspired. Take a break, and listen to the AwareGiver podcast with David Happe.
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AwareGiver with David Happe
AwareGiver with David Happe
28 AUG 2024 · Host David Happe provides legal information on rights for caregivers including the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, California's Family Rights Act and more.
21 AUG 2024 · Dave Happe from Form America and the host of Awaregiver the Caregiver Oasis Radio Show talks about why everyone needs to have a will in place, and how to get one done cheaply.
16 AUG 2024 · Dave talks about getting a low cost, guaranteed issue burial insurance policy in place for the people you care for. If you are in the state of Florida, Dave's company can actually help you secure a guaranteed issue final expense burial policy. Contact help@formamerica.com for additional information (Florida residents only)
9 AUG 2024 · Dave Happe talks you through what a Financial Power of Attorney is, and why you need one as a caregiver. You can DIY the form yourself, use a document prep company like www.formamerica.com, or hire an attorney to do this for you.
2 AUG 2024 · Every caregiver should insist on having an Advance Medical Directive / Living will and Medical Power of Attorney in place for the person you care for. Dave Happe breaks down what a Living Will is, why you need it, how to draft it, how to use it and State specific information on how to put an Advance Medical Directive in place.
23 MAY 2024 · About 40% of caregivers are men. Of those men, 30% are black and face special challenges not addressed by existing supports for caregivers. A professor who studies this issue is a caregiver himself.
Audio provided by NPR.
21 MAY 2024 · SAN FRANCISCO, May 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, at Uber’s annual product event, GO-GET, Uber Health announced Uber Caregiver, a new solution designed specifically for caregivers and their loved ones. For the first time, beginning this summer, care-receivers will have the ability to add a caregiver to their Uber profile, empowering them to request and monitor rides and deliveries, as well as apply the care-receiver's eligible health benefits to pay. The solution is designed to help patients maximize their ancillary healthcare benefits and to improve the care experience for caregivers and care-receivers alike.
More than one in five Americans—53 million people—are caregivers. A growing subset of these caregivers are adults who care for their aging parents while raising their own children, holding a job, and balancing other household and family duties. Caregiving is demanding work, with responsibilities ranging from medication management, to assistance with daily activities, to administrative tasks like scheduling appointments, grocery shopping, and meal planning. About half of caregivers say the role has increased their emotional stress, and 39% say that they’re rarely or never relaxed. The logistical responsibilities of calling a health plan to determine benefit eligibility, deciding how to pay for an appointment or delivery, and submitting expenses for reimbursement add another layer of stress and complexity to the role. This can also contribute to financial strain; the average caregiver spends about $7,000 annually out of pocket.
Uber Caregiver is designed to relieve this logistical burden and provide peace of mind. It aims to transform the historically fragmented, complicated, and time-consuming process of navigating ancillary benefits with a one-stop shop for caregivers to understand and act on benefit information on behalf of their loved one. Soon, care-receivers can invite caregivers directly in the Uber app. Where eligible, caregivers will be able to view a loved one’s ancillary healthcare benefits, coordinate services like transportation to a medical appointment or grocery delivery, and help the care-receiver pay in-app using their health benefit cards. By leveraging Uber’s mobility and merchant networks, Uber Health can help meet caregivers and patients where they are. Benefits include:
Care at the tap of a button: Beginning this summer, caregivers will be able to quickly and easily coordinate benefits like rides and grocery delivery on behalf of family members in an app they already know and love, receiving real-time updates along the way.
Enhanced visibility into ancillary healthcare benefits: As plans come on board to Uber Caregiver, caregivers will have information about their loved one’s benefit eligibility—for example, how many more rides will be covered or how much of a monthly grocery benefit remains—available in the Uber and Uber Eats apps. This will empower caregivers to coordinate services and deliveries without worrying about what will or won’t be covered.
Reduced financial burden: Almost 80% of caregivers pay for some care-receiver expenses out of pocket. The new offering will allow care-receivers to give caregivers permission to pay for services with their loved one's eligible health benefits to reduce financial strain.
“Caregivers are the invisible backbone of our healthcare system. They provide essential care for millions of people, often at great personal cost—but they shouldn’t have to do it alone,” said Caitlin Donovan, Global Head of Uber Health. “Our new solution helps lighten the load. Caregivers will no longer be solely responsible for grocery shopping for loved ones, bringing mom to the doctor, or decoding grandpa’s benefits to see if they’ll cover a bottle of aspirin. We know it takes a team, and we’re proud to play an important role in keeping people healthy.”
This is the beginning of Uber Health’s efforts to address caregivers’ pain points. In the coming months, the organization will begin working with Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and commercial plans to provide enhanced support to caregivers in the United States.
Caregivers will have the ability to coordinate transportation on behalf of a loved one on the Uber app beginning this summer. Additional capabilities will roll out later this year. To learn more about Uber Caregiver, click here or visit uberhealth.com/caregiver.
Uber Health Media Contact
press@uber.com
16 APR 2024 · Florida lawmakers have debated for a decade whether to expand Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act. Advocates are trying to circumvent legislature and take the issue directly to voters.
27 MAR 2024 · PODCAST TAKEOVER EDITION
This is a SPECIAL EDITION of the AwareGiver podcast featuring a rebroadcast of the "COLD CALL" podcast from Harvard Business School. i thought the content was important enough to bring it to you unedited.
In 2017, Tommy Hilfiger launched its adaptive fashion line to provide fashion apparel that aims to make dressing easier. By 2020, it was still a relatively unknown line in the U.S. and the Tommy Hilfiger team was continuing to learn more about how to serve these new customers. Should the team make adaptive clothing available beyond the U.S., or is a global expansion premature? Assistant Professor Elizabeth Keenan discusses the opportunities and challenges that accompanied the introduction of a new product line that effectively serves an entirely new customer while simultaneously starting a movement to provide fashion for all in the case, “Tommy Hilfiger Adaptive: Fashion for All.”
For most people, the hardest thing about getting dressed in the morning is deciding what to wear. Putting on the clothes is pretty much an afterthought, but anyone who's broken an arm or even a finger can tell you that getting dressed becomes a much bigger challenge when you try to button a shirt or buckle a belt. Just imagine how difficult it would be from the seat of a wheelchair or without fine motor control. Yet, that is a challenge faced by millions of people with physical disabilities each and every day.What we wear affects our psychological state as well as our performance. The journal ScienceDirect introduced the term enclothed cognition to describe this phenomenon. And for those with physical disabilities, it's a problem that until very recently was in search of a solution. Today on Cold Call, we've invited Professor Elizabeth Keenan to discuss her case titled, “Tommy Hilfiger Adaptive: Fashion For All.” I'm your host, Brian Kenny, and you're listening to Cold Call on the HBR Podcast Network.
To subscribe to the COLD CALL podcast on the HBR Podcast network, visit https://hbswk.hbs.edu/Pages/browse.aspx?HBSContentType=Cold+Call
25 MAR 2024 · Drugmaker Biogen is pulling the plug on its controversial Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm, following disappointing sales. It had been expected to be a blockbuster product.Biogen says patients currently taking Aduhelm will have access to it until November 1, but patients taking the drug in clinical trials will lose access May 1.
Welcome to AwareGiver, your caregiver's oasis on the airwaves, where host David Happe brings you the pulse of home caregiving. Tune in for the latest trends, breaking news, and indispensable...
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Welcome to AwareGiver, your caregiver's oasis on the airwaves, where host David Happe brings you the pulse of home caregiving. Tune in for the latest trends, breaking news, and indispensable insights tailored to caregivers. From technological innovations to heartwarming stories, join us as we navigate the ever-changing world of caregiving with empathy and expertise. Whether you're a seasoned caregiver or just starting your journey, AwareGiver is your go-to destination for staying informed, empowered, and inspired. Take a break, and listen to the AwareGiver podcast with David Happe.
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