title: The impact of TCARE® on service recommendation, use, and caregiver well-being.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Findings are reported from a study that examined the effects of the Tailored Caregiver Assessment and Referral (TCARE®) protocol, a care management process designed to help family caregivers, on care planning and caregiver outcomes.
  
  
  METHODS
  A longitudinal, randomized controlled trial was conducted with 97 caregivers enrolled in a demonstration project in Georgia. Data included on care plans pertaining to service recommendations, compliance, and use were reviewed. Caregiver identity discrepancy, objective burden, relationship burden, stress burden, and depressive symptoms were assessed up to 4 times during a 9-month observation period. Chi-square tests, independent samples t tests, random effects regression growth curve analysis, and random intercept regression analysis were conducted.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A greater variety of services were recommended to and used by caregivers in the intervention group than in the control group. Caregivers in the intervention group had lower caregiver identity discrepancy, stress burden, and depressive symptoms over time than caregivers in the control group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Study findings provide initial support for the merits of the TCARE® protocol as a process that can be used to effectively target services to individual caregivers' needs.
authors: Department of Social Work, Helen Bader School of Social Welfare, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA. kwak@uwm.edu
authors: Jung
authors: J
authors: Kwak
authors: Rhonda J V
authors: RJ
authors: Montgomery
authors: Karl
authors: K
authors: Kosloski
authors: Josh
authors: J
authors: Lang
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