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November 2007, Vol 97, No. 11 | American Journal of Public Health 1931
© 2007 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.119339

LETTER

CAREGIVING: A FAR-REACHING PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERN

Brason Lee, MSW, MS

The author is with the California Department of Public Health, Sacramento.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Brason Lee, 3108 Guadalajara Way, Sacramento, CA 95833 (e-mail: brasonlee@aol.com).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

Talley and Crews provide needed attention to family caregiving as a public health issue.1 Their description of caregiving in terms of the relationship between the elder care recipient and care provider is welcoming to this clinician and researcher. The urgency of caregiving is made more pressing by the passage of the Older Americans Act Amendments of 2000, which established the National Family Caregiver Support Program.2 Broadening the focus of caregiving—to include grandparents caring for children living with them and anyone caring for older persons—has magnified the implications of caregiving to encompass a range of traditional public health concerns, from child . . . [Full Text]






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