Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences

Family Assessment Collaboration to Enhance End-of-Life Support

Families are an essential source of support for most adults facing death and, along with the terminally-ill individual, the focus of hospice and palliative care services. The family, especially family caregivers, can have a major impact on the patient's quality of life and interactions with service providers. The goal of Aloen Townsend's project is to improve end-of-life care for patients by improving the assessment of family caregivers' needs. The project is designed to address a critical gap: the lack of clinically relevant and scientifically sound measures for assessing family caregiver strain near the end of life.

Cleveland, OH  |  $65,000