{"id":4498,"date":"2026-09-10T17:11:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T17:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lanceaslatton.com\/?p=4498"},"modified":"2026-09-10T17:11:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T17:11:54","slug":"family-caregivers-are-holding-up-americas-healthcare-system-are-we-supporting-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lanceaslatton.com\/articles\/family-caregivers-are-holding-up-americas-healthcare-system-are-we-supporting-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Caregivers Are Holding Up America\u2019s Healthcare System. Are We Supporting Them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Americans perform work that is essential to the healthcare system without necessarily realizing they have become an essential part of the nation\u2019s care infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>A parent falls. A spouse receives a difficult diagnosis. An older relative returns home from the hospital. Before long, a family member is organizing medications, scheduling appointments, providing transportation, helping with personal care, watching for changes in symptoms and making decisions that can have serious consequences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcarebusinesstoday.com\/family-caregivers-healthcare-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"opener noopener\"><button>Read More<\/button><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Americans perform work that is essential to the healthcare system without necessarily realizing they have become an essential part of the nation\u2019s care infrastructure. A parent falls. A spouse receives a difficult diagnosis. An older relative returns home from the hospital. Before long, a family member is organizing medications, scheduling appointments, providing transportation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lanceaslatton.com\/api-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lanceaslatton.com\/api-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lanceaslatton.com\/api-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lanceaslatton.com\/api-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lanceaslatton.com\/api-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lanceaslatton.com\/api-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4499,"href":"https:\/\/lanceaslatton.com\/api-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions\/4499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lanceaslatton.com\/api-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lanceaslatton.com\/api-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lanceaslatton.com\/api-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}