Presenters
Summary
The fastest growing healthcare sector-home- and community-based services-depends to a large degree on the willingness and abilities of patients’ family members to support them in the home environment. Yet most clinicians and health systems do a poor job of engaging, supporting and empowering family caregivers. In this workshop, two national family caregiving experts will share evidence-based clinical and programmatic interventions, as well as emerging health system- and insurer-based innovations, for harnessing the power of families to decrease patients’ hospital readmissions and lower healthcare costs.
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Objectives
- Describe empirical findings on negative and positive effects of caregiving on family caregivers and key components of family caregiver support programs
- Outline a 7-point family caregiver assessment model for interdisciplinary team use
- List necessary large systems changes in communication, documentation and shared decision-making to engage, support and empower family caregivers to reduce patients’ healthcare costs
References
- Qualls, S & Williams, AA (2013). Caregiver family therapy, Washington, DC: APA Books
- Rolland, JS (2018). Helping couples and families navigate illness and disability, New York, NY: Guilford
- AARP Public Policy Institute Brief (2017). Emerging innovation in managed long-term services and supports for family caregivers: http://www.longtermscorecard.org/~/media/Microsite/Files/2017/2017%20Scorecard/AARP1202_EI_EmerInnovationLTSS_Oct31v2.pdf
- Jacobs, BJ (2018). Can families reduce patients’ healthcare costs?, CFHA Blog, December: https://www.cfha.net/blogpost/689173/314205/Can-Families-Reduce-Patients-Healthcare-Costs?hhSearchTerms=%22barry+and+jacobs%22&terms=
- Roth, DL et. al. (2016). Medicare claims indicators of healthcare utilization differences after hospitalization for ischemic stroke: race, gender, and caregiving effects, Int J Stroke, 11(8):928-934.
