Receiving Respite Care Safely During the COVID-19 Pandemic (also in Spanish)

Guidelines for Families

The information and guidelines provided in this document are designed to assist you and your family with careful and thoughtful decision making to ensure respite care is received as safely as possible during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

A Community Advisory Board (CAB), comprised of family caregivers and respite care recipients, reviewed the contents of these guidelines to help ensure the relevance of the information to family caregivers.

Authors: Kim E. Whitmore, PhD, RN, CPN, Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing at Marquette University and Lisa Schneider, Respite Care Association of Wisconsin