Full Description
Family Caregiving in the New Normal discusses how the drastic economic changes that have occurred over the past few years have precipitated a new conversation on how family care for older adults will evolve in the future.
This text summarizes the challenges and potential solutions scientists, policy makers, and clinical providers must address as they grapple with these changes, with a primary focus given to the elements that may impact how family caregiving is organized and addressed in subsequent decades, including sociodemographic trends like divorce, increased participation of women in the workforce, geographic mobility, fewer children in post-baby boom families, chronic illness trends, economic stressors, and the current policy environment.
A section on the support of caregivers includes technology-based solutions that examine existing models, personal health records, and mobile applications, big data issues, decision-making support, person-centered approaches, crowd-sourced caregiving such as blogs and personal websites that have galvanized caregivers, and new methods to combine paid and unpaid forms of care.
Contents
Foreword
Alan B. Stevens and Rachael Watman
1. Introduction: Family Caregiving in the New Normal
Joseph E. Gaugler and Robert L. Kane
Section I: Personal Perspectives: Caregiving in the New Normal
2. Caregiving Roles Reversed: Becoming My Mother's Mother
Michele H. Kimball
3. Complexity and Opportunities in Caregiving: A Story of Holding On and Letting Go
Christine W. Hartmann
4. Caregiver Woes in the Medicare System: A Tale of Two Patients
Jerald Winakur
5. The Caregiving Crucible: Crisis and Opportunity
Emily Kearns
Section II: Threats to Family Caregiving in the United States
6. Factors Affecting the Future of Family Caregiving in the United States
Robyn I. Stone
7. Chronic Illness Trends and the Challenges to Family Caregivers: Organizational and Health System Barriers
Jennifer L. Wolff and Barry J. Jacobs
8. Informal Care and Economic Stressors
Courtney Harold Van Houtven
Section III: Policy Considerations and Family Caregiving
9. The Policy and Political Environment of Family Caregiving: A Glass Half Full
Debra J. Lipson
10. Help for Family Caregivers Available from Government Programs and Policies
Pamela Doty and Brenda Spillman
Section IV: A New Vision for Supporting Caregivers in the Future
11. Translational Research on Caregiving: Missing Links in the Translation Process
Elaine Wethington and Louis D. Burgio
12. Information Technology to Support Aging: Implications for Caregiving
George Demiris
13. Supporting Caregivers of Older Adults in Making Decisions: Current Tools and Future Directions
Tetyana P. Shippee, Kathleen Rowan and Carrie Henning-Smith
14. Person-Centered Approaches to Caregiving
Karen I. Connor, Hilary C. Siebens and Joshua Chodosh
15. The Impact of the Internet and Social Media on Caregiving
Katherina Nikzad-Terhune, Keith A. Anderson and Lori La Bey
16. The Escalating Complexity of Family Caregiving: Meeting the Challenge
Susan C. Reinhard and Lynn Friss Feinberg
17. Caregivers as Therapeutic Agents in Dementia Care: The Context of Caregiving and the Evidence Base for Interventions
Laura N. Gitlin and Nancy Hodgson
Conclusion
18. A Perfect Storm? The Future of Family Caregiving
Joseph E. Gaugler and Robert L. Kane
