The Caregiving Project Resources

Advisory Committee

Frank Broyles, former NCAA football player, coach, broadcaster, and athletic director for theUniversity of Arkansas Razorbacks, was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983.

Rosalynn Carter, former First Lady and founder of The Carter Center has worked for more than three decades to improve the quality of life for people around the world

Walter Cronkite has covered virtually every major news event during his more than 65 years in journalism - the last 54 affiliated with CBS News.

Hugh Downs has enjoyed a distinguished 64-year career in radio and television as a reporter, newscaster, interviewer, narrator and host.

Dr. John R. Finnegan, Jr. is Dean of the School of Public Health at theUniversity of Minnesota.

Val J. Halamandaris is the President of the National Association for Home Care, representing the interests of the ill, dying and disabled and those who care for them at home.

Carol Raphael is President and Chief Executive Officer of Visiting Nurse Service ofNew York, the country's largest voluntary home health care organization.

Humphrey Taylor has served as chairman of The Harris Poll, a service of Harris Interactive, since 1994.

Expert Panel

Dr. Marie A. Bernard, Chairman, Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatric Medicine, University of Oklahoma

Dr. Claudia Beverly, Director, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Center on Aging

Dr. Jeremy Boal, Director, Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors Program

Dr. John Crews, Lead Scientist, Disability and Health Team, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Steven L. Dawson, President, Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute

Dr. Linda Emanuel, Director, Buehler Center on Aging, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine

Lynn Friss Feinberg, Deputy Director, National Center on Caregiving, Family Caregiver Alliance

Claudia Fine, Chief Professional Officer, SeniorBridge Family Companies

Mary Jo Gibson, Senior Policy Advisor, AARP Public Policy Institute

Rick Greene, Aging Program Specialist, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Aging, DHHS National Family Caregiver Support Program

Gail Gibson Hunt, President and CEO, National Alliance for Caregiving; Senior Advisor to The Caregiving Project for Older Americans

Dr. Robert Kane, Professor and Minnesota Chair in Long-Term Care and Aging, Health Policy & Management, University of Minnesota School of Public Health

Carole Levine, Director, United Hospital Fund, Families and Health Care Project

Dr. Diane E. Meier, Director, Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, Mount Sinai Medical Center

Dr. Jeanette Takamura, Dean, Columbia University School of Social Work

Dr. Sandra Timmermann, Director, MetLife Mature Market Institute

Publications

Developing National In-Home Caregiver Training Standards is comprised of unedited verbatim transcripts compiled from the discussion sessions that took place during the workshop on Developing National In-Home Caregiver Training Standards: A Consensus Conference, March 29, 2007, and sponsored by the The International Longevity Center-USA, and Schmieding Center for Senior Health and Education.

"Caregiving in America" offers a context for caregiving and an overview of the caregiving field, providing an inventory of work done over the years by various academic, professional, and service organizations.

ILC-USA and UniHealth Foundation Announce Caregiver Training Initiative

Who are the professional, in-home caregivers of older Americans and how are they trained? Those are the questions being answered in a new initiative of The Caregiving Project for Older Americans, funded by a generous grant from the UniHealth Foundation's Advancing Healthy Aging initiative. Major initiatives include a review of the caregiving curricula and training programs through the country, and a consensus conference in Los Angeles on May 8, 2008.
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Community College Caregiving Training Initiative

The Caregiving Project for Older Americans and the MetLife Foundation awarded twelve U.S.community colleges grants to develop home-based caregiver training courses. The Community College Caregiver Training Initiative provides funding to community colleges to either establish new home-based caregiver training programs or enhance programs that already exist for professional and family caregivers.

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Project Partner

The Schmieding Center for Senior Health and Education of Northwest Arkansas (SCSHE), located in Springdale, Arkansas, provides older adults and their families with education, healthcare, information resources and other services for more positive aging. Education services include unique in-home caregiver training programs, public programs on positive aging, and professional programs to improve the geriatric expertise of healthcare professionals and students. Healthcare services include comprehensive clinical care and rehabilitation by an interdisciplinary team of geriatric professionals. The Schmieding Center is a partnership of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, the Area Health Education Center-Northwest, and Northwest Health System. More information on SCSHE is available at