Building the Research Pipeline: Home and Community-Based Services and the Dual-Eligible Population
$2.1 Million to Study Extended Family Caregivers of People with Dementia
The National Institute on Aging awarded a grant to two faculty members, Karen Roberto and Tina Savla, at Virginia Tech’s Center for Gerontology to examine the role of extended family…
Building the Research Pipeline: Home and Community-Based Services and the Dual-Eligible Population
In mid-January, hundreds of researchers convened to discuss how to bolster the quantity and quality of research around dual-eligible individuals and home-and community-based services. With dual-eligible individuals among the hardest…
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Impact: Engaging Communities Underrepresented in Disability Research
ICI’s Research and Training Center on Community Living (RTC-CL), University of Minnesota, Spring 2023 This special issue of Impact highlights critical disability research questions derived from a State of the Science meeting…
The Senior Companion Program Plus (SCP Plus): Examining the Preliminary Effectiveness of a Lay Provider Program to Support African American Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) Caregivers.
Xu, L.; Fields, N.L.; Williams, I.C.; Gaugler, J.E.; Kunz-Lomelin, A.; Cipher, D.J.; Feinhals, G. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20, 5380. A culturally informed, peer-led, lay provider model, the Senior…
Supporting social connection for people living with dementia: lessons from the findings of the TRIO study
Prendergast, L.M., Toms, G., Seddon, D., Jones, C., Anthony, B.F. and Edwards, R.T. (2023). Working with Older People, Vol. No. ahead-of-print. The purpose of this paper is to share the learning…
The United States Should Recognize and Support Caregiving Youth
Emma Armstrong-Carter, Catherine Johnson, Julia Belkowitz, Connie Siskowski, Elizabeth Olson, Social Policy Report, First published: 12 July 2021 Vol.34, Issue 2, p. 1-24 Over 5.4 million U.S. children and adolescents…
A University-Wide Survey of Caregiving Students in the US: Individual Differences and Associations with Emotional and Academic Adjustment
The United States does not track or support students in higher education who are caregivers. This study presents results from one of the first university-wide surveys of caregiving undergraduate and…
Cost-effectiveness of an in-home respite care program to support informal caregivers of persons with dementia: A model-based analysis
A previous comparative analysis of a respite intervention, in which caregivers were given a break from caregiving for at least five days while a trained professional cared for the person…
Research Recommendations included in the RAISE Family Caregiving and the Supporting Grandparents Raising Grandchildren (SGRG) Advisory Councils’ Reports to Congress
The RAISE Act Family Caregiving Advisory Council recently released its recommendations in an initial report to Congress. The report includes family caregiving policy opportunities, diverse family caregiving stories from across the…
Caregiver Respite: An Essential Component of Home-and Community-Based Long-Term Care
During the pandemic, flexibilities in formal respite services and creative informal strategies emerged to ensure meaningful breaks for family caregivers. In this letter, Dr. Utz, who is a member of…
Taking a Break: Daily Respite Effects of Adult Day Services as Objective and Subjective Time Away From Caregiving
This study investigated how objective and subjective breaks from caregiving were associated with caregivers’ daily emotional health. Caregivers reported an average of 7.12 respite hours on Adult Days Services (ADS)…
Daily sleep, well-being, and adult day services use among dementia care dyads
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of Adult Day Services (ADS) use on sleep quality for people with dementia and their caregivers. The authors found that…
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