Next Step in Care: Family Caregivers & Health Care Professionals Working Together

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• Next Step in Care is a United Hospital Fund program that provides guides to help family caregivers and health care providers plan and implement transitions between care settings, such as hospital to home, hospital to a rehab facility, or the start or end of home care agency services.
• The site's Guides & Checklists section lists separate guide sets for family caregivers and for health care providers, plus guides for family caregivers translated into Spanish, Chinese, and Russian.
• Guide topics for family caregivers include hospital discharge planning, short-term rehabilitation services, and a guide to electronic organizers, monitors, sensors, and apps as caregiving tools.
• United Hospital Fund produced a guide to New York State's CARE Act for patients and caregivers explaining what they can expect to be asked by hospital staff and what discharge instructions they are entitled to receive.
• New York and more than 30 other states have passed versions of the CARE (Caregiver Advise, Record, and Enable) Act, which requires hospitals to include family caregivers in discharge planning and give them post-discharge training.
• The program can be reached by email at [email protected]; the page does not list a caregiver phone line.