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As a family caregiver, you are charged with several responsibilities. Some you are doing this naturally as a loving son, daughter, parent, relative or neighbour. Unfortunately, you have not received training for the job. You will find navigating your local health care system frustrating and challenging at first.

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Medical Model for Caregiving

The last 60 years has seen the rise, peak, and gradual diminishment of the medical model of health care (doctor-hospital-surgery-drug-based system). The medical model is now finding a place within the larger traditional health context of family care giving. The combination of the medical model with the family care giving model has given Canadians improved health care, but in the process of developing the medical model we have neglected the family model. This neglect has hindered the...
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