CAREGIVERS NEED HELP WHEN SELECTING PART D PLANS

Are you a caregiver for your parent or family member with Medicare benefits? Caregiving is often the hardest and most heartbreaking task you will ever be faced with. Most people don’t know how to help you or empathize with you, until they experience it themselves. The person you are taking care of is in the middle of trying to save their own life or coming to terms with their life ending as they have always know it, and they cannot worry about you either. Understanding this is key to not taking their outbursts personally.

Not only do caregivers take on the role as nurse, scheduling doctor appointments, maintaining prescriptions and giving medications, bathing, feeding and moving someone who cannot get around alone; they must also deal with the emotional ramifications of role transference and the anger and frustration of the sick individual. Sometimes this could be a spouse, such as was my case, and more recently a mother.

My first advice is to take time to take care of YOUR needs. Do not feel guilty for attending to your life, even though it is difficult to do so. If you don’t take time to care for yourself, you will not be able to care for anyone else. There are many home services that will come and sit with them, or enlist the help of a family member or neighbor. Just DO IT! Go out with your friends or to a movie and get away for awhile. It helps to remember that you have a life to live as well.

With all of these issues on your mind, it is even more overwhelming to understand all the Medicare benefits that must be decided upon.

This time of year we talk to many children whose parents are living with them, or they are in a nursing home. We can reduce the time it would take you to search online for a drug plan. If you send us a list of their medications, we can get a comparison ready for you to select the plan that would cover all their meds at the lowest co-pays and premiums.

If you are in this situation, ask your case worker if there are support groups in your area for caregivers. Just knowing that someone else understands what you are going through can make all the difference.

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Please write to me, Karyn Blake, here at My Part D USA’s blog at kblake@MyPartDusa.org. Or you can email this article to a friend.

Published by mypartdusa on October 29, 2007 in Drug Plan Enrollment.

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