Today Survival Coalition of disability organizations, Wisconsin Aging Advocacy Network, and the Wisconsin Family Caregiver Alliance are releasing the fifth of six short videos focused on the daily challenges faced by Wisconsin’s family caregivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We need Survival Coalition members\u2019 help to distribute this video and facts about Wisconsin family caregivers<\/strong> on social media, to grassroots, and to reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This week\u2019s video exposes the volume and kind of care families provide, and the lack of paid help available to hire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Watch this four-minute video on<\/strong> The lack of quality direct care workers has increased pressure on family caregivers to an unsustainable level. Families have been forced to fill in the gaps, even though they already provide 80% of all the care needed. 85% of families do not have enough direct care workers to staff all authorized hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Action steps you can take to help Wisconsin family caregivers be heard!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Suggested post language<\/strong>: \u201cFamily caregivers spend their evenings, nights, and weekends providing care for loved ones. They pick up the pieces and provide care when direct care workers don’t show up, quit, or there’s no one to hire. The amount of care families provide is already unsustainable; the direct care workforce crisis pushes it to the breaking point. “<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Suggested post language:<\/strong> \u201cAll On Our Own: Part Time Help For Full Time Care. Watch this four minute video to meet family caregivers across Wisconsin who spend their days, nights, and weekends caregiving with no break and no help to hire.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Suggested post language:<\/strong> \u201cThe amount of care families provide is already unsustainable; the direct care workforce crisis pushes it to the breaking point. Three things you could do that would help people like me include 1) Broaden Family Medical Leave 2) Make sure all caregivers can get help at ADRCs 3) create a Caregiver Tax Credit. These are a few of many needed policy changes.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Important details legislators include where you live, your age, a little about the person(s) you care for, how many hours per day you spend caregiving, and how being a family caregiver affected your physical and mental health, and overall stress levels.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Today Survival Coalition of disability organizations, Wisconsin Aging Advocacy Network, and the Wisconsin Family Caregiver Alliance are releasing the fifth of six short videos focused on the daily challenges faced by Wisconsin’s family caregivers. We need Survival Coalition members\u2019 help to distribute this video and facts about Wisconsin family caregivers on social media, to grassroots, and to reporters. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2802,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions\/2802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
All On Our Own: Part Time Help for Full Time Care<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nQuick facts: On Our Own, No Help to Hire<\/h1>\n\n\n\n