NASEM Workshop: Strategies and Interventions to Strengthen Support for Family Caregiving and to Alleviate Caregiver Burden

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) is holding a 1.5-day workshop June 5–6 on "Strategies and Interventions to Strengthen Support for Family Caregiving and to Alleviate Caregiver Burden."

The workshop will discuss evidence-based interventions and strategies that effectively address the physical, mental, and financial burdens of caregiving for cancer and other serious illnesses, with an emphasis on the role of palliative care. The event will take in Washington, DC, and registrants may attend all sessions in-person or virtually.

Invited presentations and panel discussions will explore the following topics:

• Strategies and interventions to address the range of challenges associated with caregiving: psychological, emotional, physical, and financial/economic burden, including increased risk of suicide among caregivers

• The critical role of palliative care in interventions to ease caregiver burden

• Special needs of different caregiver populations (e.g., children, older adults)

• Ways to scale and spread successful programs and interventions

• Policy opportunities to support family caregivers, including employer/workplace-based policies and programs

Register to attend the workshop in Washington, DC, or virtually.
Learn more and access the agenda.
Learn more about NASEM's Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness.
Learn more about JAHF's co-support of NASEM.