Researchers are seeking long-distance caregivers and home care aides to help guide a new study.
The LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston is seeking two long-distance caregivers and two home care aides to join an advisory committee for a new research project.
The research project, funded by the National Institutes of Health, aims to develop an intervention that can address the specific needs of long-distance caregivers who experience caregiving burden. The intervention will be developed with the help of a caregiving expert advisory committee.
The research team is seeking four individuals to complete the project’s advisory committee:
- Two long-distance caregivers: These caregivers must live at least two hours away from the older adult with dementia for whom they provide care. The older adult with dementia must receive non-medical home care.
- Two home care aides: The aides should work for non-medical home care agencies, have at least five years of work experience, and care for a person with dementia who has a long-distance caregiver.
The project’s advisory committee already includes one researcher with expertise in the field of family caregiving and one leader of a caregiver support organization.
Advisory committee members will be asked to attend four meetings over a five-month period, beginning in January 2022. Each advisory committee meeting will be held on Zoom at a date and time convenient for all members. Members of the advisory committee will receive a small stipend for each meeting.
For more information about the NIH study and the advisory committee, please see the information sheets that researchers have developed for long-distance caregivers and home care aides.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
If you know of a long-distance caregiver or home care aide who fits the study requirements and is willing to serve, please contact Project Director Richard Evan Chunga (Richard.chunga001@umb.edu or 718-551-4476). You may also reach out to Dr. Verena Cimarolli, the study’s principal investigator (vcimarolli@leadingage.org or 202-508-9411).
In addition, feel free to distribute information sheets to long-distance caregivers and home care aides, or to groups and networks representing them.