News
February 16, 2024
February 16 is National Caregiving Day
Today, on National Caregiving Day, we at the University of Pittsburgh's National Center on Family Support would like to recognize and honor the tireless dedication of family caregivers.
No matter your connection to the family caregiving community, we would like to acknowledge and thank you for what you do. It does not go unnoticed, today and every day.
October 9, 2023
Caring for the Carers: A Webinar on NAC's Findings and Recommendations for Advancing the Mental Well-Being of Family Caregivers
There are over 53 million family caregivers in the US, many of them experiencing mental health challenges. Despite this, their mental health needs are not often recognized or given attention. In order to provide these caregivers better support and advance their mental well-being, the National Alliance for Caregiving did some research and held a convening with mental health experts in order to bring you a Spotlight Series Brief summarizing these findings and their recommendations.
October 4, 2023
New Caregiver Brief: Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren
Millions of Americans provide care to others each day, supporting aging parents, young and adult children and grandchildren, spouses and partners, siblings, and other friends and relatives. NCFS has leveraged large, national datasets to construct a detailed profile of different types of caregivers, highlighting both current knowledge and key gaps.
June 26, 2023
Caring for the Dementia Caregiver Conference
Allegheny Health Network's Aging Brain Care Program presents Caring for the Dementia Caregiver Conference on Wednesday, July 12, 2023, from 8:30 AM - 1 PM.
November 10, 2022
November is National Family Caregivers Month!
This November, we're joining with the Administration for Community Living (ACL), Caregiver Action Network (CAN), and many other organizations to celebrate National Family Caregivers Month.
July 18, 2022
Inaugural Pitt report finds spousal caregivers with disabilities face poverty, health issues – identifies gaps for policy support
An inaugural white paper from our Center found that spousal caregivers with disabilities face a litany of complications while trying to tend to aging or ailing spouses and partners: health problems, mental health difficulties, work issues, even financial and healthcare strains.
April 4, 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Beth Fields!
Congratulations to Dr. Beth Fields, who received the American Occupational Therapy Foundation Early-Career Research Excellence Award. This award recognizes and supports investigators who are contributing and have promise to advance knowledge in the field of occupational therapy. We're so proud to have her and her work as part of our center!
December 8, 2021
New Health Affairs Blog Post
A recent Health Affairs blog post from Everette James and Meredith Hughes discusses the need to make spousal impoverishment protections for Medicaid permanent. Spousal impoverishment protections help keep a spouse from having to spend down and impoverish themselves in order for the other spouse to qualify for long-term services and supports.
December 6, 2021
Dr. Richard Schulz Named as Caregiving World Expert by Expertscape
Congratulations to NCFS researcher Dr. Richard Schulz, who was recently named a World Expert in caregivers by Expertscape. According to their PubMed based algorithm, Dr. Schulz was placed in the top 0.1% of scholars writing about caregivers in the last 10 years. We're honored to have him on our team!
October 27, 2021
Recording Available for Webinar on Social Isolation and Loneliness Among Caregivers During the COVID-19 Pandemic
NCFS co-directors Dr. Scott Beach and Dr. Heidi Donovan recently presented a webinar on social isolation and loneliness among caregivers during the pandemic in conjunction with the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research. You can view a recording of the webinar, and view the full, four part series on social isolation and loneliness that the webinar was part of.
October 27, 2021
Study featured in Special Issue of Annals of Behavioral Medicine
This study, in the October 2021 Special Issue of Annals of Behavioral Medicine, examines supporters' own diabetes distress and how that is associated with self-management and outcomes for the person with diabetes. The study finds that while people with disabilities with high levels of distress report receiving assistance from their supporters with specifically medical tasks, they did not report receiving assistance with healthy lifestyle behaviors.
October 25, 2021
"Crisis of Care" News Series
NCFS researchers talked with The Keystone to share their thoughts on the current status and future of caregiving.
August 23, 2021
New Article Published by NCFS Researchers
Center researchers recently published in Health and Social Care in the Community with their findings around the considerations of involving care partners in the CAPABLE program.
June 24, 2021
Issue No. 1 - Family Caregiving
We are proud to announce the release of the first edition of the Official Policy Newsletter for the National Center on Family Support (NCFS).
June 8, 2021