Dr John Sloan specializes in home visiting with the elderly. Noralyn Smiley is a senior who is family caregiver for her mother, a patient of Dr John’s. He calls his patients Sunshiners. They discuss collaborative caregiving and the importance of the family caregiver as a member of the collaborative team. They explain the circumstances that brought Dr John into Noralyn’s Sunshiner caregiving, and generally what family caregivers need from a family physician. They talk about the ways in which the family physician, the collaborative team and the family caregiver work together in meeting the numer
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