Practical Tools for Caregivers and Professionals

In order to prepare current and future professionals in these fields, the AARP Foundation, in collaboration with the American Journal of Nursing, the Council on Social Work Education, Family Caregiver Alliance (FCA), and Rutgers Institute for Health Policy, received funding from the John A. Hartford Foundation and the Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation for an interdisciplinary project on family caregiving of older adults.

The project brings together experts from the field of aging to advance the support of informal caregiving by identifying and further developing best practices in nursing and social work to help families care for older adults. The project lays the groundwork for producing a cadre of nurses and social workers who embrace a patient- and family-centered care perspective.

There are two charts:

For Caregivers: items that family caregivers can access and use themselves.
For Professionals: items intended to increase professionals' knowledge and skills or are intended for caregivers but require professional facilitation.