Researchers at the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston are looking for volunteers to help them test an intervention to support long-distance caregivers of older adults with dementia who receive home care.

The researchers, Verena Cimarolli and Kathrin Boerner, have developed a new non-drug intervention to support long-distance caregivers, defined as living two or more hours away from the care recipient. Now they are asking those caregivers to help them test the feasibility of the intervention. It will include tailored dementia education and resources, delivered remotely via a tablet—which participants can keep—provided by the study.

The seven-week LDCare intervention was developed during the first phase of a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. During the study’s second phase, a sample group of 40 long-distance caregivers and their care recipients will take part in the LDCare intervention, delivered by experienced licensed social workers.

Do you know of a long-distance caregiver who would be interested in participating in the LDCare study? Please share this flyer with them or contact the research team directly.

Read more about LDCare at the LTSS Center website.