title: Partnering with caregivers.
abstract: Family caregiving is nonroutine help that is provided to a relative in need. On average, family caregivers have provided assistance for close to 5 years, and close to half help their relatives with 1 or more activities of daily living in the United States. Family caregivers' unmet needs and the negative health outcomes they may experience demand effective, sustained clinical engagement. Clinical interventions that are intensive, individualized, and delivered over time to parallel chronic disease trajectories seem most effective. Principles of clinical assessment, tenets of a partnership-based health care framework, and newly emerging resources are presented to help guide clinicians' efforts to partner with family caregivers.
authors.affiliation: Center on Aging, School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, 6-153 Weaver-Densford Hall, 1331, 308 Harvard Street Southeast, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. Electronic address: gaug0015@umn.edu.
authors.forename: Joseph E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Gaugler
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
authors.forename: Teddie
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Potter
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
authors.forename: Lisiane
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pruinelli
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017028:Caregivers; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000379:methods*; D011788:Quality of Life; D012944:Social Support
keywords: Burden; Caregiver intervention; Chronic disease; Informal long-term care; Long-term care; Partnership-based care; Stress