Implementing a dementia caregiver support strategy among Latinos in primary care

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Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: PROJECT 3 (PERALES-PUCHALT) Latino caregivers of individuals with dementia (IWDs) experience disproportionate levels of stress, depression, and poor access to caregiver community resources. Caregiver support interventions can reduce caregiver stress by providing knowledge and skills regarding dementia, caregiving, available community resources, and coping with stress. Unfortunately, most primary care clinics offer little in terms of caregiver support for their patients with dementia. Community health workers (CHWs) are being used in many primary care clinics to provide culturally tailored health education and connections with community resources, but to our knowledge have not been specifically engaged in providing support for caregivers of IWDs. There is a unique opportunity to engage CHWs in efforts to implement caregiver support interventions among Latinos in primary care. The overall objective of this project is to inform the development of an implementation strategy in which CHWs deliver ¡Unidos Podemos! among Latinos in primary care. ¡Unidos Podemos! is a culturally tailored evidence- based caregiver support intervention for Latinos. We propose an implementation strategy that leverages CHWs already working in primary care and provides them with the training, resources and ongoing support needed to implement ¡Unidos Podemos!. On Aim 1 we will identify barriers and facilitators to the implementation of ¡Unidos Podemos! by CHWs among Latinos in primary care. On Aim 2 we will test the feasibility of a CHW- support strategy for implementing ¡Unidos Podemos! among Latino caregivers in two primary care clinics.

Key facts

NIH application ID
10927194
Project number
5P20GM139733-02
Recipient
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER
Principal Investigator
Jaime Perales Puchalt
Activity code
P20
Funding institute
NIH
Fiscal year
2024
Award amount
$185,654
Award type
5
Project period
2023-09-11 → 2028-08-31