Caregivers As Partners in Care Teams (CAP-CT) is a national training program that provides health care teams with the skills and confidence to include family caregivers in a patient's care journey. Through training and practical resources, health care teams can learn to identify, engage, and support caregivers, leading to better care for patients and their caregivers.
Why Include Family Caregivers in Health Care Teams?Millions of family caregivers provide essential, yet often unrecognized, support. CAP-CT enhances caregivers’ engagement in care by training health care teams to actively include them. With CAP-CT, health care teams can navigate patient care with greater confidence.
Engaging family caregivers provides:
• Valuable context – caregivers can provide insights about a patient's daily life, ultimately streamlining the care process.
• Better experience – sharing patient information with caregivers leads to higher patient and caregiver satisfaction [6].
• Greater satisfaction - when caregivers feel prepared, they are more likely to report less stress and depression and better quality of life for themselves [7].
• Reduced risk - having a caregiver reduces the risk of hospital readmission after an acute illness [8].
This program is funded by the Administration for Community Living (ACL) to fulfill Goal 2 of the 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers. CAP-CT is developed and implemented by the University of California, San Francisco, in partnership with leading health care researchers and caregiving support organizations across the country.
CAP-CT trainings are a really amazing opportunity to address the barriers around skills that we don't receive in our training for how to incorporate caregivers.
UCSF
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