Caregiving

Assuring Healthy Caregivers, A Public Health Approach to Translating Research into Practice: The RE-AIM Framework.

It is our pleasure to share with you a copy of Assuring Healthy Caregivers, A Public Health Approach to Translating Research into Practice: The RE-AIM Framework. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and The Kimberly-Clark Corporation released the monograph at the recent 2008 Aging in America Conference, sponsored by the National Council on Aging (NCOA) and the American Society on Aging (ASA).

The issue of caregiving — with the exponential growth in the number of caregivers, the huge cost to society, families, and individuals and the development of effective interventions to address caregiver burden and health — has become a public health priority of national concern. It is imperative that those concerned with caregivers and their family and friends work together to move evidence-based programs and policies into communities.

In the 2004 Caregiving in the U.S. report by the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP, it was estimated that approximately 44 million men and women in the United States who were providing unpaid care to a family member, friend or neighbor. These caregivers represented an estimated 22.9 million households (21% of all U.S. households). The one-year economic value of this unpaid labor force was recently estimated to be $306 billion.

Assuring Healthy Caregivers, A Public Health Approach to Translating Research into Practice: The RE-AIM Framework presents key questions and methods to help program developers, planners and evaluators use the framework in their work on caregiving. We offer case examples in which we apply the RE-AIM framework to a caregiver intervention program and a policy intervention; and suggest additional resources for those interested in pursuing the use of RE-AIM for caregiver support programs and policies.

Assuring Healthy Caregivers, A Public Health Approach to Translating Research into Practice: The RE-AIM Framework

To view a full copy of Assuring Healthy Caregivers, A Public Health Approach to Translating Research into Practice: The RE-AIM Framework, visit
http://www.cdc.gov/aging/caregiving/index.htm.

A limited number of hard copies of Assuring Healthy Caregivers, A Public Health Approach to Translating Research into Practice: The RE-AIM Framework are available. A single hard copy can be requested here.