title: The FACES Project: an academic-community partnership to improve end-of-life care for families.
abstract: This article reports on a research partnership between a community-based hospice and a graduate school of social work. The purpose of the collaboration was to design and test a tool for assessing caregiver strain and resources in families caring for older adults receiving hospice home care services. Eighteen hospice home care social workers interviewed 162 caregivers for the study and provided their own assessment of the tool's clinical utility. Both strengths and challenges of the collaboration are evaluated and implications are discussed for social work practice and research, particularly academic-community research partnerships.
authors.affiliation: Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA. Alt7@cwru.edu
authors.forename: Aloen L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Townsend
authors.forename: Karen J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Ishler
authors.forename: Elizabeth H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Vargo
authors.forename: Beth M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Shapiro
authors.forename: Elizabeth Ford
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Pitorak
authors.forename: Carol R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Matthews
mesh_terms: D017028:Caregivers; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004500:Education, Graduate; D006302:Health Services Research; D017051:Hospice Care; D006801:Humans; D009820:Ohio; D016730:Program Development; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012946:Social Welfare; D012947:Social Work / Q000193:education*