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Caregiver Support Across the Multidisciplinary Care Continuum
Activity Snapshot
Activity Type:
On-Demand Webinar
Release Date:
Friday, March 5, 2021
Sponsor Information:
This program is supported in part by an independent medical education grant from Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma America, Inc.
Faculty
Ambereen K. Mehta, MD MPH
Assistant Professor
Palliative Care Program, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Michelle McWhirter, MSW, LCSW-C
Social Worker
Palliative Care Program, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Activity Overview:
Ambereen Mehta and Michelle McWhirter from Johns Hopkins Medicine provide an overview of important considerations to optimize support for caregivers of adult patients with neuromuscular disease (NMD). The webinar reviews sources of caregiver stress, evolving caregiver needs over the course of disease, the impacts of caregiver strain, strategies to assess caregiver strain, and interventions to manage caregiver strain.
