My name is Joe Gaugler, and along with my colleague Robert Kane, edited the book Family Caregiving in the New Normal published in May, 2015.
Our goal in assembling this edited book was to describe the critical, central role families play in providing care to older adults in need in the U.S., and how this role is threatened by a number of sociodemographic, health, and policy trends.
Family Caregiving in the New Normal also provides a number of potential solutions to help support family caregivers in the future. A key aspect of the book was the intertwining of personal experiences of family caregivers at the beginning and throughout the book.
In this spirit, we are asking professionals, families, researchers, policymakers, and others to submit short videos to the Family Caregiving in the New Normal YouTube channel and share their perspectives while answering the following questions:
What are the most significant challenges to family caregiving in the U.S. in the upcoming decades?; and
What are some potential solutions to best support family caregiving in the U.S. in response to these threats?
Simply upload your videos to my site here and I will upload your video on this YouTube channel where you can view my, “The Future of Family Caregiving.” If you have any questions or issues, please feel free to contact me at email at gaug0015@umn.edu.
If you are interested in learning more, you can read my earlier articles:
What is the “new” normal in family caregiving?
Is family caregiving sustainable?
About the Book:
Family Caregiving in the New Normal discusses how the drastic economic changes that have occurred over the past few years have precipitated a new conversation on how family care for older adults will evolve in the future.
This text summarizes the challenges and potential solutions scientists, policy makers, and clinical providers must address as they grapple with these changes, with a primary focus given to the elements that may impact how family caregiving is organized and addressed in subsequent decades, including sociodemographic trends like divorce, increased participation of women in the workforce, geographic mobility, fewer children in post-baby boom families, chronic illness trends, economic stressors, and the current policy environment.
A section on the support of caregivers includes technology-based solutions that examine existing models, personal health records, and mobile applications, big data issues, decision-making support, person-centered approaches, crowd-sourced caregiving such as blogs and personal websites that have galvanized caregivers, and new methods to combine paid and unpaid forms of care.
If you are interested in learning more, Family Caregiving in the New Normal is available on the Elsevier Store. Apply discount code “STC215″ at checkout and save up to 30% off the list price.
About the Authors:
Joseph E. Gaugler, PhD is a Professor in the School of Nursing and Center on Aging at The University of Minnesota. A developmental psychologist with an interdisciplinary research focus, Dr. Gaugler’s interests include Alzheimer’s disease and long-term care, the longitudinal ramifications of family care for disabled adults, and the effectiveness of community-based and psychosocial services for chronically ill adults and their caregiving families. Dr. Gaugler currently serves as Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Applied Gerontology and on the editorial boards of several journals. He is a recipient of numerous awards and is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and the American Psychological Association. Read full bio here.
Robert L. Kane, MD, holds an endowed chair in Long-term Care and Aging at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, where he was formerly the Dean. He directs the University of Minnesota’s Center on Aging, the Minnesota Area Geriatric Education Center, the Clinical Outcomes Research Center, and an AHRQ-funded Evidence-based Practice Center. He has conducted numerous research studies on both the clinical care and the organization of care for older persons, especially those needing long-term care. He is the author or editor of 34 books and more than 500 journal articles and book chapters on geriatrics and health services research. Read full bio here.
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