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The New York Times - July 14, 1983
Laurie Johnston and Susan Heller Anderson
Sometimes, she said, hospitals discharge patients "just to get rid of them."
Home care by friends and family has become increasingly important because many AIDS victims cannot find paid professionals in home health care. The disease, known formally as acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is usually fatal.
The six-session workshops will be given monthly at Red Cross headquarters, 150 Amsterdam Avenue. Seven men and a woman, some in community health organizations, listened as Miss Fugate led a frank discussion on hygiene, safety, psychology and sexual relations.
She advised the group how to wash their hands (cold water and liquid soap, twice), how to bathe a patient, how to wash the patient's dishes. "No paper plates," she advised. "How would you feel?"
Caretakers with a cold or cough should wear masks to "protect the patient, who is immuno-suppressed, against your diseases," she explained.
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