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Dementia Caregiving Resources
Evidence-Based Support for Communities
Identifying, translating, and disseminating research findings and evidence-based public health best practices in dementia caregiving is a main goal of the PHCOE-DC. This page contains a collection of materials, tools, and best-practices that public health agencies can use to support family members, friends, and other unpaid individuals who care for people living with dementia in their communities.
Caregiver Identification: Strategies for Advancing Person-Centered Dementia Care Across Settings
This expert panel will bring together healthcare and community practitioners to discuss promising practices, barriers, and opportunities for identifying, assessing and supporting family caregivers across clinical, community and public health settings.
Elevating Dementia Caregiving As A Public Health Priority
This presentation will highlight recent, John A. Hartford-funded work on the part of the National Alliance for Caregiving that addresses how and why dementia caregiving is indeed a public health concern.
Caregiver Data Factsheet from 2015-2017 from the Alzheimer’s Association
The Alzheimer’s Association’s “Use Data and Evidence for Action”
The Alzheimer’s Association’s “Use Data and Evidence for Action” website provides valuable public health information on how to utilize information collected yearly by the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. The two optional modules (Cognitive Decline Module and Caregiver Module) provide in-depth caregiver statistics that are nation-wide. This link also provides state examples of how collected data informed policy development.