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Improving Care and Support for Unpaid Caregivers in Ontario: Findings from a Citizen Panel

  • 04 Nov 2015
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Online

This webinar will present findings from a citizen panel convened by the McMaster Health Forum in November 2014, which provided participants an opportunity to share their ideas and experiences related to improving care and support for unpaid caregivers. Panel participants were provided with a citizen brief that summarized in lay language what is known about the underlying problem, three options to address the problem and implementation considerations, and the panel consisted of facilitated deliberations about each of these areas.

During the deliberations, four challenges were consistently raised:

  1. caregivers’ heavy burden can cause anxiety about its impact on their own and other’s health;
  2. financial and employment impacts of caregiving are substantial;
  3. many caregivers don’t know about available services or how to access them; and
  4. caregivers’ roles are not fully recognized or supported.

Two values-related themes emerged with some consistency related to options for addressing the challenges: 1) competence (e.g., educating and training unpaid caregivers to provide optimal care) and 2) empowerment (e.g., supporting unpaid caregivers to become strong advocates for their loved ones and for themselves).

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