Caregivers As Partners in Care Teams
 

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Caregivers As Partners in Care Teams

Caregivers As Partners in Care Teams (CAP-CT) is a training program that provides health care teams with the skills and confidence to include family caregivers in a patient's care journey.

CAP-CT gives health care teams the skills to identify, engage, and support caregivers. Trainings are offered as self-paced, online courses with the option to claim free continuing education credits.

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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].

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ACL Grantee

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.

Dr. Wagahta Semere, Primary Care Physician

UCSF