Integrating Family Care Partners in Aged Caregiving in the United States

1.The Toughest Job  2.Who are the Carers?  3.Policy and Process Involving Care Partners  4.Crisis Within Crisis: Our Aging Care Partners  5.How Do We Support Care Partners?  6.Ethics of Care Partner Inclusion  7.Shifting to "Care Partner"  8.Unique Care Populations  9.Care Partner: Nexus of Health Care and Social Care

Biography

Nathan A. Boucher is Associate Research Professor in Public Policy as well as Nursing, and Associate Professor in Geriatrics & Palliative Care as well as Population Health Sciences at Duke University (USA). He is also a federally funded health systems research scientist in the largest comprehensive health care system in the United States, the Veterans Health Administration.

“In this timely and compelling book, Dr. Boucher shines a much-needed light on the invisible workforce of family care partners who sustain older adults and people with disabilities every day. Drawing attention to the profound contributions, challenges, and inequities faced by caregivers, he offers a persuasive call to recognize, support, and meaningfully integrate care partners into long-term care systems. This book is an important contribution for researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and anyone committed to creating more compassionate and equitable systems of care.”

Lillian Hung, RN, PhD, Canada Research Chair in Senior Care, Associate Professor, UBC Nursing, University of British Columbia, Canada

 

“Family caregivers are critical to long-term care in the U.S., and are often pivotal in maintaining older adults' quality of life and ability to age in place. Despite this central role, family caregivers are often overlooked and not meaningfully incorporated into the various forms of healthcare older adults receive. This helpful, much-needed book by Nathan Boucher aims to address the scope of this issue and, more importantly, identify solutions to meaningfully involve care partners in the broader healthcare process for older adults. Families, friends, and other unpaid individuals are indeed the "heart" of long-term care, and Dr. Boucher offers a plan to keep that heart healthy.”

Joseph E. Gaugler PhD, Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Robert L. Kane Endowed Chair in Long-Term Care and Aging, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota

“A timely and accessible resource, Integrating Family Care Partners in Aged Caregiving underscores the urgent need to better integrate family care partners into formal care systems, drawing on comprehensive analysis, vivid case studies, and the author’s experiences as a physician assistant, a researcher, a teacher, and a care partner. An essential read for health professionals, students, policymakers, aging adults, and caregiving families.”

Julie Robison, Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences, UConn Center on Aging