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Improving Information Sharing Between Family Caregivers and Home Care Aides

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Start Date

4/14/2026

Completion Date

8/31/2027

Summary

This study will assess the feasibility and acceptability of delivering a home care role and preference guide to up to 50 family caregivers and home care aides of persons living with disability for the purpose of identifying roles between family caregivers and home care aides.

Detailed Description

This study will assess the feasibility and acceptability of delivering a home care role and preference guide to family caregivers and home care aides of persons living with disability for the purpose of identifying roles between family caregivers and home care aides, as well as preliminary effects on older adult social engagement, caregiver distress, continuity, and feelings of being overwhelmed, family caregiver/direct care worker preparedness, relational coordination, and service satisfaction. The intervention will involve delivering the home care role and preference guide to up to 50 family caregiver-home care care aide dyads to demonstrate the feasibility of collecting primary endpoints relating to older adults' outcomes to be examined in a future ePCT as well as intervention acceptability. Information about family caregivers and home care aide perspectives will be collected at enrollment, 2- and 4-weeks of the intervention.

Eligibility Criteria

Age Range: 18 years to No maximum

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Home care agency aide: * English speaking, * home care aides, personal care aides, or personal care aides, providing services to older adults with ADRD. 2. Family or unpaid caregiver eligible for the study if: * 18 years and older * English speaking * hear well enough to communicate by telephone * identify themselves as the primary family member or unpaid (friend/companion) caregiver Exclusion Criteria: 1. Home care aides are ineligible if: * non-English speaking * certified nursing assistants, nursing assistant, home health aides, or medication technicians. 2. Family/unpaid caregivers ineligible if: * less than 18 years old * non-English speaking * do not hear well enough to communicate by telephone * two or more incorrect answers or not being able to respond to a validated 6-item telephone screening instrument * are not identified as the person's primary caregiver, or are paid for services.

Interventions

OTHER

GRACE

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Conditions

Shared Care

Locations

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland 21205

United States