A Look At Society In The New World
In life, there’s always “before” and ”after”. You look at life one way before your life changes 180 degrees, and another way after the change.
Author Gail Sheehy has written about different stages in her life with her husband as he has travelled through several diagnoses with cancer. See:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20428511/site/newsweek/page/0/
She states that she had clear cut roles about what she would and wouldn’t do for her husband, and always had the resources to maintain her “wifely” status and hire others to do other things.
But what if you don’t have the resources? Medicare pays nothing for caring for elderly parents at home. “It’s called custodial care, which makes it sound like it’s a clean-up job,” states Sheehy.
Will policymakers ever give today’s most overlooked medical staff - the caregivers - more options? With people like Sheehy on board, there may be hope.
