(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Karen Curtiss, founder and director of The Care Partner Project, found there were so many questions to be asked and ways to advocate for a friend or relative who is dealing with a health situation.
She learned first-hand showing up bedside for her father, after he received a lung transplant. Now, her aim is to “demystify care” for people who find themselves in that position of support.
“I created a checklist for people who are those family members who are showing up, who have no training for the job whatsoever,” she tells WBBM Newsradio’s Bernie Tafoya. “Like I say, there are no Brownie badges in being that care partner to your loved one.”
TheCarePartnerProject.org has checklists dealing with everything from hospital and emergency room care to diagnosis questions. Curtiss says all information is vetted by subject experts, doctors and nurses.
“I picked up a lot of the content from places like the Dartmouth Institute, the CDC, nursing textbooks -- all grounded in best practices,” she says.
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