When we move away from specifying the care recipient's disease to focus on the caregiver, we find that different ways of talking about care experiences are very useful and descriptive.  The Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers together with Duke University created a system to describe various caregiver experiences called Caregiver Profiles:  Are you learning about a new diagnosis for your family member?  or maybe managing a static illness?  or managing a system or setting change with your loved one? This way, we can talk about our experiences and needs as caregivers without sharing the medical details of our loved ones, and find commonality with people who don't even have direct care experience.  For example: everyone has been through some kind of big change where they had to learn a lot at once.  

Dr. Jennifer Olsen joins us.  Dr Olsen is an experienced epidemiologist.  She serves as Chief Executive Officer of the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers (RCI), which promotes the health, strength, and resilience of the 53 million family caregivers throughout the United States. 

More information about the Caregiver Profiles is here.



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