Schizophrenia Caregiver Tips
Taking care of someone with schizophrenia can be challenging. Dr. Samuels provides several strategies that can be helpful to caregivers.
Taking care of someone with schizophrenia can be challenging. Much of your care will be focused on helping those affected remember things like getting to appointments, taking medications, along with basic activities like eating meals and taking showers. In this video, Dr. Susan Samuels provides some tips for those acting as a caregiver for those with schizophrenia.
Dr. Samuels is an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry and clinical pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and an assistant attending psychiatrist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
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Note: These are all the sources used for every video in this series, not every source listed was used in this specific video.