Publications
Whether you are a family caregiver, a discharge planner, a geriatric care specialist, or just looking for some information to plan for your own long-term care, the National Alliance for Caregiving offers a variety of materials with the information you need, downloadable as PDFs.
- Caregiver Health Self-Assessment Questionnaire- The Caregiver Health Self-Assessment Questionnaire will help you analyzingyour own behavior and health risks and, with your physician’s help, you can make decisions that will benefit you and yourcare recipient. You can take this Caregiver Health Self-assessment Questionnaire to your physician and it will enable your physician to identify and provide preventive care and services.
Caregiver Health Self-Assessment Questionnaire – EnglishCaregiver Health Self-Assessment Questionnaire – Spanish
- Care for the Family Caregiver: A Place to Start (PDF)- Caregiving presents considerable challenges-physical, emotional and economic. There is no reason to suffer in silence. If you take away one thing from this booklet, remember – it’s always okay to seek and ask for help. Getting help can enable you to become a better caregiver. This booklet is designed to give you an overview of the basic aspects and issues involved with caregiving by sharing the caregiving journey as told through family caregiver stories. The booklet also covers the the basics of family caregiving and provides caregiving tips, caregiver training, caring for yourself, legal and financial issues to consider, and where to turn for help.
- Surgeon General’s Prescription for Caregivers (PDF) - For Family Caregiver Advocates: there is a new resource for those working with or advocating for family caregivers: The Surgeon General’s Prescription for Caregivers. You can print it out and distribute as many as you like. Johnson & Johnson created the “Prescription,” but it is unbranded, and they are encouraging doctors and other health care professionals, administrators of support groups and other caregiver programs–anyone working with caregivers–to use it.
- CMS Tip Sheet for Providers (PDF)- Medicare will pay for certain types of caregiver education when it’s provided as part of a patient’s medically necessary face-to-face visit. Caregiver education is not separately payable in Medicare Part B; however, it can be billed as part of the counseling and coordination of care services you provide during a patient visit as long as it directly involves the patient and is medically necessary. Medicaid coverage policies for these services vary by state, so check with your Medicaid state agency for guidance. A visit for counseling based on time may be billed according to a specific CPT code level.
- CMS Discharge Planning Tip Sheet (PDF)- During a patient stay in a hospital, nursing home, or other health care setting, the staff will work with you to plan for the patient discharge. The patient and their caregiver are important members of the planning team. This is a checklist of important things you should know to plan for a safe discharge. To view the checklist, click here.
