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CULTIVATING FAMILY CAREGIVER RESILIENCE AND PREVENTING AVOIDABLE HOSPITALIZATIONS IN DEMENTIA
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CULTIVATING FAMILY CAREGIVER RESILIENCE AND PREVENTING AVOIDABLE HOSPITALIZATIONS IN DEMENTIA

T. Sadak, E. Ishado, B. Gaster, L.N. Gitlin, K.C. Buckwalter and S. Borson
Innovation in aging, v 1(Suppl 1), pp 1105-1106
30 Jun 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igx004.4050
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Enhancing and maintaining family caregiver (CG) self-care is a national priority for long-term societal wellbeing. The National Alzheimer’s Plan Act recognizes widespread deficiencies in detecting and addressing the needs of CG of PWD and identified CG assessment and interventions as one of its five key goals. Additionally, CG who are better prepared to manage their care recipient’s health and maintain their own wellness may be more effective in preventing potentially avoidable hospitalizations, thereby meeting a key dementia-related objective of Healthy People 2020. This poster describes efforts towards improving characterization of CG “jobs” for managing PWD’s health at home and designing the tools and interventions to support clinicians and family CGs working together to avoid preventable health crises of both CGs and PWD. We recruited 100 CG of PWD recently hospitalized for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions and triangulated data from CG interviews and assessments, and PWD medical records in order to map the chain of events leading to hospitalization, identify missed opportunities for prevention, and create a repository of CG descriptions of early symptoms of conditions that lead to PWD hospitalization. We create a CG self-care inventory to identify and monitor CG self-care practices and how such practices change during PWD health crises and stratified CG into those with high vs. low risk for experiencing difficulties in responding effectively to a PWD health crisis and maintaining self-care. The ultimate goal of this work is to enable CGs to manage health of their care recipients without sacrificing their own health and wellness.

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