Caregiver Quality of Life: How to Measure It and Why

September 1, 2021

The authors review the concept of caregiver quality of life (QOL) and offer recommendations for choosing and implementing a screening workflow. They suggest that “further research is needed to guide development…

Reducing the Impact of Dementia in America: A Decadal Survey of the Behavioral and Social Sciences

September 1, 2021

The National Institute on Aging of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services requested that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conduct a consensus study to produce…

A Group Respite Pilot Project for Children with Special Needs

August 13, 2021

Being a caregiver for a family member or loved one with special needs is difficult. This pilot project documents the enthusiasm expressed by parents of children for accessible respite care…

Time for Living and Caring (TLC): A Virtual Coach to Maximize the Benefit of Respite Time Use

June 1, 2021

Prior research demonstrated that caregivers who used respite to do what they had most desired, needed, or had planned to do had the highest satisfaction with their time-use and reported…

Is Dementia-Specific Caregiving Compared With Non-Dementia Caregiving Associated With Physical Difficulty Among Caregivers for Community-Dwelling Adults?

May 1, 2021

The purpose of this study was to identify whether dementia caregiving is associated with physical difficulty among informal caregivers. Authors recommended that “Future studies should identify strategies to mitigate the…

Identifying Research Priorities in Adult Day Centers to Support Evidence-Based Care of Vulnerable Older Adults

April 9, 2021

The National Adult Day Services Association (NADSA) created a multistakeholder work group to identify priority areas for research to enhance the quality of services offered in Adult Day Centers (ADCs)…

Advancing Respite Research – Findings from the Respite Research Summit

April 9, 2021

On September 29 and 30, 2020, ARCH convened the virtual Respite Research Summit with more than 130 national and international participants. The Summit was a capstone event to an initiative by the…

$2.1 Million to Study Extended Family Caregivers of People with Dementia

April 2, 2021

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

April 1, 2021

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…