Family Caregivers

Family caregivers provide care and support for loved ones with serious acute, chronic or disabling conditions. Patients have the right to identify their family caregiver when hospitalized. It is important to let your nurse and doctor know who plays a key role in your care and well-being both here and beyond the hospital stay. Identifying your family caregiver ensures that we provide them with the information and education they need to best support you at home.

Family caregivers may be primary or secondary caregivers, and live with or live separately from their loved one needing care and support. The tasks of caregiving can range and change depending on the needs of the care recipient.

Often a caregiver may handle medical appointments and visits, secure and administer medication, acquire medical equipment, and help an individual with daily living such as eating, bathing, toileting, dressing and household chores, as well as social, spiritual and leisure activities.

A caregiver may also act as a resource of important information as well as advocate
with health care professionals on behalf of a loved one.

Family caregivers need and deserve support too.

PBMC Caregivers Center is located in the front lobby. We’re ready to help you find the support you need and deserve in caring for a loved one. For more information, contact Noelle Roth, LMSW, at (631) 548-6259 or nroth4@northwell.edu.