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…

Short breaks for carers: a scoping review

July 13, 2019

Prepared by Diane Seddon and Louise Prendergast, Wales Centre for Ageing and Dementia Research, School of Health Sciences, Bangor University and funded by Shared Care Scotland Shared Care Scotland, working…

Outcome Evaluation of the National Family Caregiver Support Program

July 13, 2018

The Administration for Community Living (ACL) released the Outcome Evaluation of the National Family Caregiver Support Program (NFCSP) on December 6, 2018. Key Respite FindingsOne key finding regarding respite was that, on…

Does the Senior Companion Respite
Service Matter for the Health and
Well-being of Caregivers?

September 22, 2017

In 2014 the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) launched an evaluation to assess the impact of the Senior Companion Program (SCP) respite services on beneficiaries and participants to…