D and L - How do you not like it? GREAT! Just be sure the diseases are
not communicable! Questions/comments I have are 1) liability
insurance/waivers for docs and hospital 2) a stimulating enviroonment for
the patient? 3) what ratio of patients/staff, how anticipate (if someone
"drops by" for eg), the doc can't hold all hands! 4) more later!
Hope you can do this!!!!
Bob Dolezal
At 11:46 PM 2/7/98, Dale Severance wrote:
> . The second part of the mission statement for the Alliance tried to focus in
>on the Parkinson patient and family now. To that end Lupe McCann and I felt
>that there is a need for a day care center for the Parkinson Caregiver.
>
>What we envisioned was a place where a caregiver could take the patient and
>leave that person for the day. An experienced person would staff the center to
>provide care while the main caregiver just got a day of rest or took care of
>special chores with out the burden of looking after the PWPD.
>
>I ran this by some officials in my area and we may be close to setting up a
>day care center along the following lines.
>
>A medical facility would donate space and provide one or more residents to
>staff the center as needed.
>
>Each person entering the center would be examined by the resident briefly and
>any applicable insurance would be charged for an office visit for the days
>stay.
>
>If an applicant lacked insurance or funds to pay then the service would be
>provided free.
>
>The day care facility would be available to all caregivers of any serious
>disease and not limited to just CG of PWPD.
>
>Before we explored further it was suggested that I try and determine if this
>was a tool useful to the caregiver and would they utilize the facility.
>
>My request is for some feed back from the cg on this list.
>
>Perhaps the CG listserv could also consider this issue.
>
>Thanks for Lupe and myself
>
>Dale Severance
