NASEM Workshop Recording: Strategies and Interventions to Strengthen Support for Family Caregiving and to Alleviate Caregiver Burden
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) is held a 1.5-day workshop June 5–6 on "Strategies and Interventions to Strengthen Support for Family Caregiving and to Alleviate Caregiver Burden."
The workshop discussed evidence-based interventions and strategies that effectively address the physical, mental, and financial burdens of caregiving for cancer and other serious illnesses, with an emphasis on the role of palliative care.
Invited presentations and panel discussions explored the following topics:
- Strategies and interventions to address the range of challenges associated with caregiving: psychological, emotional, physical, and financial/economic burden, including increased risk of suicide among caregivers
- The critical role of palliative care in interventions to ease caregiver burden
- Special needs of different caregiver populations (e.g., children, older adults)
- Ways to scale and spread successful programs and interventions
- Policy opportunities to support family caregivers, including employer/workplace-based policies and programs
Watch the recording and access the meeting materials.
Learn more about NASEM's Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness.
Learn more about JAHF's co-support of NASEM.
