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

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To characterize current practices, barriers, and facilitators to assessing and addressing family caregivers' needs and risks in primary care.

Design

Cross-sectional, national mail-based survey.

Setting

American Medical Association Masterfile database.

Participants

U.S. primary care physicians (N = 106), including general internists (n = 44) and geriatricians (n = 62).

Measurements

Approaches to assessing and addressing family caregivers' needs and risks; barriers and facilitators to conducting caregiver assessments.

Results

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 encompa

SUBMITTER: Riffin C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8062767 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature