PRIMARY CARE WEEK – Grand Rounds – Caring for the Caregiver

Event Date & Time

October 5, 2022 at 12:30pm - 1:30pm

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Event Details:

Overview:

In 2020, 53 million family caregivers (FCGs) provided ~34 billion hours of uncompensated care services to loved ones worth over $470 billion.2 Informal FCGs provide self-care and emotional and social support for loved ones living with debilitating diseases like Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia (AD/RD). Current trends in family caregiving include the greater complexity of care needs in the home, the rising out-of-pocket costs of care and a growing care gap between FCG demand and supply.2 This situation will intensify as the demand for informal caregiving services exceeds the availability of caregivers due to an aging population, steep increases in rates of ADRD and smaller average family size. Changing demographics also show more diversity among FCGs and disparities in available FCG resources.

In this lecture series, Dr. Mitchell will share results from Project Achieve, a national study of family caregivers and care recipients experiencing a care transition from hospital to home. Results will be contextualized within the broad extant literature on expanding roles for family caregivers and emerging disparities in family caregiver resources and supports.

Objectives:

-Increase awareness of critical gaps in family caregiver availability and support for adults living with chronic and serious illnesses

-Increase knowledge of disparities in family caregiver resources across race, ethnicity and socioeconomic groups

-Present health policy changes impacting family caregiver roles and support services

Financial Disclosures:

Suzanne Mitchell, MD has disclosed she is an employee/a researcher/has ownership interest in See Yourself Health Inc; and on speakers bureau for Merck and Co.

The Family & Community Medicine Professional Development and Grand Rounds Committee members (Mark Nadeau, MD, Marcy Wiemers, MD, Maria Del Pilar Montañez Villacampa, MD, Christine Song, DO, Nehman Andry, MD, Gabriela Gibson-Lopez, PsyD, Margaret Finley, MD, Yun Shi, MD, Stacy Ogbeide, PsyD, Lauren Fuller, MD, and Nichole Rubio) have no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

The Family & Community Medicine Professional Development and Grand Rounds Committee member Carlos Roberto Jaén, MD has disclosed he receives royalties from General Practice and Family Medicine for being UpToDate Editor-in-Chief.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.00 hours)

Target Audience:

Specialties – Primary Care; Family Medicine  
Faculty, residents, other health care providers and staff from our department; physicians and health care providers from San Antonio and South Texas; and medical students in our third-year clerkship and fourth year rotations. 

Accreditation:

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation:

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses and other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Attendance. For information on applicability and acceptance, please consult your professional licensing board.

 

For activity related questions, please contact:

Name: Nichole Rubio- FCM Grand Rounds Coordinator
Email: rubion@uthscsa.edu

 

For CME general questions, please contact:

Ph: (210) 567-4445
Email: cme@uthscsa.edu

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About the Speaker(s)

Featuring the Bellue-Holly Distinguished Visiting Professor

Suzanne Mitchell, MD, MSc

Suzanne Mitchell, MD, MSc
Associate Professor and Director of Research
Department of Family Medicine
University of Massachusetts School of Medicine