Mitigation Against Burnout/Stress

Expanding the support system for the caregiver
Finding help in various sources for caregiver tasks
Educating caregivers
Paying caregivers salaries competitive with those paid to professional healthcare providers doing similar tasks, thus allowing them to retire from salaried jobs for companies where management is willfully ignorant of or unsympathetic to their workers’ family caregiving burdens
Encouraging the growth of telecommuting jobs that enable caregivers to work at home while caring for their patients
Providing full medical benefits for caregivers and their patients
Providing nursing and medical advice when needed, including home visits
Providing respite services on demand
Providing psychological counseling or psychiatric intervention for stress management
Collecting data documenting savings for the national healthcare system made possible by home caregivers