scholarly journals Family Physician’s and Primary Care Team’s Perspectives on Supporting Family Caregivers in Primary Care Networks

Author(s):  
Jasneet Parmar ◽  
Sharon Anderson ◽  
Marjan Abbasi ◽  
Saeed Ahmadinejad ◽  
Karenn Chan ◽  
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Background. Research, practice, and policy have focused on educating family caregivers to sustain care but failed to equip healthcare providers to effectively support family caregivers. Family physicians are well-positioned to care for family caregivers. Methods. We adopted an interpretive description design to explore family physicians and primary care team members’ perceptions of their current and recommended practices for supporting family caregivers. We conducted focus groups with family physicians and their primary care team members. Results. Ten physicians and 42 team members participated. We identified three major themes. “Family physicians and primary care teams can be a valuable source of support for family caregivers” highlighted these primary care team members’ broad recognition of the need to support family caregiver’s health. “What stands in the way” spoke to the barriers in current practices that precluded supporting family caregivers. Primary care teams recommended, “A structured approach may be a way forward.” Conclusion. A plethora of research and policy documents recommend proactive, consistent support for family caregivers, yet comprehensive caregiver support policy remains elusive. The continuity of care makes primary care an ideal setting to support family caregivers. Now policy-makers must develop consistent protocols to assess, and care for family caregivers in primary care.

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S755-S756
Author(s):  
Samantha Solimeo ◽  
Melissa J Steffen ◽  
Ellen E Gardner ◽  
Omonyele Adjognon ◽  
Marlena Shin ◽  
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Abstract This study used a qualitative observational design to identify the team-, clinic-, and system-level resources necessary for effective geriatric medical home (i.e., GeriPACT) implementation and to differentiate the needs of GeriPACT compared to traditional PACT. Analysis of 80 interviews conducted with team members from 8 geographically dispersed GeriPACTs identified needs that may be unrecognized by primary care leadership, including: clinical space to accommodate caregivers and patients with impaired visual, mobility, cognitive, or hearing acuity; greater utilization of caregiver support programs and social workers to facilitate aging-in-place; age-sensitive clinical reminders; team member continuity and direct phone lines to reduce patient anxiety; and longer standard appointment lengths to reflect clinical complexity. In contrast to traditional primary care teams, GeriPACTs are not simply “PACTs for older adults”: GeriPACT members articulate population-specific resources that require support from facility leadership to accommodate the complex, age- clinical and social resources needed to support aging-in-place.


2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (7) ◽  
pp. 760-766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian D. Helfrich ◽  
Joseph A. Simonetti ◽  
Walter L. Clinton ◽  
Gordon B. Wood ◽  
Leslie Taylor ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 320-327
Author(s):  
Anna Zogas ◽  
Chris Gillespie ◽  
Felicia Kleinberg ◽  
Joel I. Reisman ◽  
Ndindam Ndiwane ◽  
...  

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Mohr ◽  
Gary J. Young ◽  
Mark Meterko ◽  
Kelly L. Stolzmann ◽  
Bert White

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-275
Author(s):  
Jessica L. Watterson ◽  
Hector P. Rodriguez ◽  
Adrian Aguilera ◽  
Stephen M. Shortell

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 215013272110238
Author(s):  
Deborah L. Pestka ◽  
Nicole L. Paterson ◽  
Katarzyna A. Benedict ◽  
Donovan D. Williams ◽  
Beth A. Shellenbarger ◽  
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As part of a population health-focused primary care transformation, in 2019 a health system in Minnesota developed a primary care team to exclusively care for high-cost high-need patients. Through its development and implementation, the team has discovered several key lessons in delivering care to complex patients. These lessons include the benefits of more integrative team-based care, the need and advantages of designated complex care team members, the importance of teamwork both within and outside of the complex care team, the need for frequent communication, and the importance of identifying mental health needs. In addition, there are several areas that require ongoing research and exploration, such as determining when a patient is able to graduate out of the program, how to enhance access to the complex care team, determining appropriate visit characteristics, and model feasibility. While addressing the needs of high cost high need patients is essential to improving quality of care and decreasing health care costs, there are several unique challenges and opportunities that come with caring for this patient population. Although this highly integrated model of care continues to evolve, the initial lessons learned may inform other health systems and care teams undertaking the care of complex patients.


1991 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 469-471
Author(s):  
Maria Rosen

It seems that increasingly patients are being referred to primary care teams and GPs in health centres rather than to psychiatrists in a hospital setting. With the growth in the number of patients being maintained in the community, it is becoming more important to pay attention to this sphere and to aid primary care teams to be clinically effective. It was from this perspective that I became involved as facilitator to a primary care team on a one year project.


2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 286-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hector P. Rodriguez ◽  
Xiao Chen ◽  
Ana E. Martinez ◽  
Mark W. Friedberg

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