Ramesh Srinivasan and Robert Ridge are, respectively, Senior Vice President of the US MedicAlert Foundation and President and CEO of the Canadian MedicAlert Foundation. In MedicAlert and Family Caregiving, they explain the services that MedicAlert provides and how these help family caregivers as well as the persons who receive care from family caregivers. They discuss the types of medical and personal emergencies that MedicAlert focuses on, the way these occur, and the challenges these bring to family caregivers. Of these challenges, they talk about those that arise in connection with medical
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