Build a trusting relationship between the patient, family caregivers, and the health care team.

Help the patient, family caregivers, and health care team share information with each other.

Patients and family caregivers can get ready for medical appointments.

Patients and family caregivers should talk before the appointment to help get ready for possible bad news or information that is different than expected.

In addition, she backed a law to give necessary support to family caregivers of veterans.

The health of family caregivers needs to be assessed and monitored.

Just as patients need to be evaluated for depression throughout their treatment, so do family caregivers.

Let's take a quick look at the ways in which health reform will help family caregivers and their loved ones.

Four of five family caregivers had to be available round-the-clock to deal with medical problems and treatment.

A recent study says that 26.5% of all American adults today are family caregivers.