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Identifying and Addressing Family Caregiver Anxiety

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JOURNAL OF HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE NURSING
Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages 14-20

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LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/NJH.0000000000000489

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anxiety; assessment; family caregiver; intervention

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  1. National Institutes of Nursing Research in Symptom Management and Palliative Care Research in Adults With Advanced Disease [T32 NR014213]
  2. Nurse Faculty Loan Program

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Family caregivers are an increasingly diverse group of individuals who provide significant amounts of direct and indirect care for loved ones with long-term chronic illnesses. Caregiver needs are vast, particularly as these relate to the caregiver's quality of life. However, caregivers are often unlikely to address their personal and health-related concerns. Unmet needs combined with the caregiving role often lead to high levels of caregiver anxiety. Unaddressed, this anxiety is likely to result in poor health and low quality of life. Nurses, along with the health care team, are well positioned to assess, monitor, intervene, and reassess anxiety levels in caregivers using standardized screening tools across care settings. This article focuses on the family caregiver anxiety symptom in community-based settings, where health care providers have unique opportunities to detect this symptom in a familiar environment and begin immediate intervention leading to promotion of quality of life for the caregiver and subsequently the care recipient. Additional research efforts should be focused on health care provider goals of care, dyadic assessments, and monitoring of caregiver needs while caring for their loved ones aging in place.

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