Caregiving

Call for Caregiver Curricula and Training Programs

Are you training in-home caregivers? Or are you aware of an organization that is? We are conducting a review of caregiver curricula and training programs throughout the United States, and would be grateful for your input to help insure that the review is as complete as possible.

Please Take Our Survey & Ensure Your Voice is Heard!

We ask that you please download and complete our brief survey — it should take about 5 minutes. All participants in the review will receive a copy of the final report.

Purpose

This initiative will highlight the importance of educating and training paid in-home caregivers; and improve understanding of locally responsive best practices, opportunities for replication across regions, and suitable points of entry for direct care paraprofessionals.

Sponsors

The review is being conducted by the International Longevity Center and The Caregiving Project for Older Americans, as part of an exciting initiative sponsored by UniHealth Foundation. The final report will include recommendations of a caregiver training task force comprised of distinguished experts from around the country.

Results

Your input will be included in a major report of findings that will be circulated widely among journalists, policymakers, homecare agencies, caregiver training programs, educational institutions, health care practitioners, and other interest groups. If you know of a caregiver curriculum or training program that you think deserves greater recognition, then we would be happy to include it in our review.

Eligibility

We are seeking programs that train paid caregivers to provide in-home care of older adults. Programs that also train people to work in institutional settings, or to care for younger disabled persons, are eligible for the review as long as training for in-home care of older persons also is provided.
While our review pertains to the training of direct care paraprofessional, we are also interested in the extent to which such programs address the needs of family (and volunteer) caregivers.

Thank you in advance for taking the time to complete our brief survey, and for helping us to make sure that your voice is heard!

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