Category: Elderly / Geriatics / Gerontology, Diversity / Social & Cultural Competence, Family Law ... (show more) Category: Elderly / Geriatics / Gerontology, Diversity / Social & Cultural Competence, Family Law, Health (show less) Other: Illinois Other: Illinois (show less)

The stresses of caregiving are well documented, along with a wide variety of interventions, but few take a caregiver-centered approach that optimizes existing resources in the health system and community, and none that we are aware of integrate into the 4Ms of an Age-Friendly Health System. This interactive session will explore these issues and present Caring for Caregivers, an innovative model of care developed with foundational support from the RRF Foundation for Aging, to identify family caregivers of older adults in the electronic health record, then understand and assist family caregivers with their own health and that of their care recipient, and is now being scaled and spread across the country with support from The John A. Hartford Foundation. Attendees will work in groups to identify the caregiver resources and approaches the healthcare providers in their community could offer for family caregivers of older adults, how they could partner with healthcare systems to encourage them to establish a culture of caregiver support, and promote connections between health systems and community-based organizations that can provide needed caregiving resources.