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Published on: September 1, 2023
Standing Up For My Sister
1Courtney H. Van Houtven (Courtney.Vanhoutven@duke.edu) is a professor in the Department of Population Health Science at the Duke University School of Medicine and Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy and a research career scientist at the Durham Veterans Affairs Health Care System, all in Durham, North Carolina. The views expressed are her own and not representative of the federal government. The author thanks Andrea Axel and George Van Houtven for helping her emerge with this essay and a full heart. The author also thanks Nicki Hastings and Leah Christensen for informing her writing, based on their collaborations and their efforts to meaningfully include caregivers in the care of veterans. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon this work, for commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Abstract:
Integrating family caregivers into the health care team is particularly important for patients with intellectual disabilities.
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