Brief: Promoting Caregiving Across the Full Community - The Role for Public Health Strategists
The Alzheimer’s Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have published an action brief on dementia caregiving, "Promoting Caregiving Across the Full Community: The Role for Public Health Strategists."
The brief offers an overview of the challenges of dementia caregiving, including service fragmentation and gaps. Six proposed strategies advance equity in caregivers’ access to and use of effective supports throughout healthcare systems, workplaces, and communities. A case study in Arizona features such an approach, describing the development of effective systems to promote caregiving across the full community and improve health outcomes.
Dementia caregiving is an important component of Age-Friendly Public Health Systems, which JAHF is promoting with Trust for America's Health.
To go to the brief PDF, click here.
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