Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: Family Caregiving in the New Normal -- I. Personal Perspectives: Caregiving in the New Normal -- 2. Caregiving Roles Reversed: Becoming My Mother’s Mother -- 3. Complexity and Opportunities in Caregiving: A Story of Holding On and Letting Go -- 4. Caregiver Woes in the Medicare System: A Tale of Two Patients -- 5. The Caregiving Crucible: Crisis and Opportunity -- II. Threats to Family Caregiving in the United States -- 6. Factors Affecting the Future of Family Caregiving in the United States -- 7. Chronic Illness Trends and the Challenges to Family Caregivers: Organizational and Health System Barriers -- 8. Informal Care and Economic Stressors -- III. Policy Considerations and Family Caregiving -- 9. The Policy and Political Environment of Family Caregiving: A Glass Half Full -- 10. Help for Family Caregivers Available from Government Programs and Policies -- IV. A New Vision for Supporting Caregivers in the Future -- 11. Translational Research on Caregiving: Missing Links in the Translation Process -- 12. Information Technology to Support Aging: Implications for Caregiving -- 13. Supporting Caregivers of Older Adults in Making Decisions: Current Tools and Future Directions -- 14. Person-Centered Approaches to Caregiving -- 15. The Impact of the Internet and Social Media on Caregiving -- 16. The Escalating Complexity of Family Caregiving: Meeting the Challenge -- 17. Caregivers as Therapeutic Agents in Dementia Care: The Context of Caregiving and the Evidence Base for Intervention -- Conclusion -- Index.

Family Caregiving in the New Normal discusses how the drastic economic changes that have occurred over the past few years have precipitated a new conversation on how family care for older adults will evolve in the future. This text summarizes the challenges and potential solutions scientists, policy makers, and clinical providers must address as they grapple with these changes, with a primary focus given to the elements that may impact how family caregiving is organized and addressed in subsequent decades, including sociodemographic trends like divorce, increased participation of women in the workforce, geographic mobility, fewer children in post-baby boom families, chronic illness trends, economic stressors, and the current policy environment. A section on the support of caregivers includes technology-based solutions that examine existing models, personal health records, and mobile applications, big data issues, decision-making support, person-centered approaches, crowd-sourced caregiving such as blogs and personal websites that have galvanized caregivers, and new methods to combine paid and unpaid forms of care. Provides a concise "roadmap" of the demographic, economic, health trends, and policy challenges facing family caregivers Presents potential solutions to caregiving so that scientists, policymakers, and clinical providers can best meet the needs of families and communities in the upcoming decades Includes in-depth, diverse stories of caregivers of persons with different diseases who share perspectives Covers person-centered care approaches to family caregiving that summarize effective community-based services of psychosocial intervention models Examines how existing efficacious models can more effectively reach and serve individual families.

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