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Education, Training, and Support for Rural Caregivers

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Enabling individuals to live in the community despite health-care needs is an important and growing public policy concern. Providing services (preventive, support, remedial) for family caregivers is critical to the maintenance of care recipients’ health and well-being. Caregivers need a variety of knowledge and skills in order to be effective and, given the relative lack of services in rural areas, rural caregivers may have an even greater need for skills. Unfortunately, most of the interventions with caregivers have been tested on primarily urban samples. This chapter is an overview of the various education, training, and support needs that should be addressed in rural caregiver interventions and support programs as well as a consideration of the practice, research, training, and advocacy needs of rural caregivers.

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    Kathleen Chwalisz Ph.D., Stephanie M. Clancy Dollinger Ph.D., Erin O’Neill Zerth Ph.D. & Vivian L. Tamkin Ph.D.

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Chwalisz, K., Dollinger, S.M.C., Zerth, E.O., Tamkin, V.L. (2011). Education, Training, and Support for Rural Caregivers. In: Talley, R., Chwalisz, K., Buckwalter, K. (eds) Rural Caregiving in the United States. Caregiving: Research, Practice, Policy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0302-9_10

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