New Directions to Advance Family Caregiving Research

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Kenneth Hepburn, Emory University; Elena O. Siegel, University of California Davis
• Language: English
• Date: 2020-03-01
• Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.
• License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnz182
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: GERONTOLOGIST
• Volume: 60
• Issue: Suppl 1
• Start Page: S1
• End Page: S4
• Grant/Funding Information: Dr. Siegel is funded by the Family Caregiving Institute through a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (#5968).; This paper was published as part of a supplement sponsored and funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
• Keywords: Gerontology; Science & Technology; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Geriatrics & Gerontology
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, Health Care Management; Gerontology

Abstract

This supplement describes the content, processes, and outcomes of the Research Priorities in Caregiving Summit convened by the Family Caregiving Institute (FCI) at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis in March 2018. As described in the editorial introduction and the supplement's four papers, the summit sought to integrate and cross-pollenate the already compendious work on family caregiving to describe ways forward in the field. Thought-provoking commissioned synthesizing papers on issues of heterogeneity and trajectories of caregiving and its cultural embeddedness and on the potential of technology to shape and enhance caregiving interventions set the stage for a highly disciplined, multistaged process that resulted in the drafting of a set of research themes and priorities that were later finalized by faculty at the FCI.