Systematic identification of family caregivers in health systems: Proposed solutions from a caregiver‐focused research study

Patient portal messages to support an age‐friendly health system for persons with dementia

“…For example, documenting care partner identity is the best practice principle and common gap in dementia care 18 . Recently enacted policies emphasize the need for health systems to systematically identify and support care partners as a vital step in linking PLWD to resources 21,31 . Shared access allows both identification of the care partner, and direct communication with the care partner.…”

“…18 Recently enacted policies emphasize the need for health systems to systematically identify and support care partners as a vital step in linking PLWD to resources. 21,31 Shared access allows both identification of the care partner, and direct communication with the care partner. Using NLP to identify care partners in patient portal messages is a potentially scalable approach for facilitating care partner identification.…”

Family Caregiving for People with Cancer and Other Serious Illnesses

“…Policy changes are needed to ensure reimbursement for health care team visits with caregivers (Riffin et al, 2022), performance rewards for teams that include caregivers (Van Houtven et al, 2019a), pay for caregivers (Werner and Van Houtven, 2020), expansion of caregiver supports along the lines of the RAISE Act, and incorporation of caregiving and inclusive care into health professionals' educational curricula (Leykum et al, 2022). Finally, in terms of health systems, Van Houtven emphasized the need for health-system-level changes to formally recognize and identify caregivers and document this information in health records in a standardized way (Ma et al, 2022;Van Houtven et al, 2022). In closing, she pointed out the importance of expanding support to groups that face racial, ethnic and economic inequities and groups that face greater care responsibilities, cost and poorer outcomes (Choi et al, 2021).…”