Assessing and Addressing Family Caregivers' Needs and Risks in Primary Care.

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Catherine RiffinKarl A Pillemer

Abstract

To characterize current practices, barriers, and facilitators to assessing and addressing family caregivers' needs and risks in primary care. Cross-sectional, national mail-based survey. American Medical Association Masterfile database. U.S. primary care physicians (N = 106), including general internists (n = 44) and geriatricians (n = 62). Approaches to assessing and addressing family caregivers' needs and risks; barriers and facilitators to conducting caregiver assessments. Few respondents reported conducting a formal caregiver assessment using a standardized instrument in the past year (10.5%). Informal, unstructured discussions about caregivers' needs and risks were common and encompassed a range of issues, most frequently caregivers' management of patients' safety (41.0%), ability to provide assistance (40.0%), and need for support (40.0%). To address caregiver needs, most respondents endorsed referring patients to services (e.g., adult day care, home care) (69.8%), assessing the appropriateness of the patient's living situation (67.9%), and referring caregivers to community agencies (63.2%). Lack of time was the most frequently cited barrier to assessing caregivers' needs (81.1%). The most commonly endorsed facilitators w...Continue Reading

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