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  • Your Story Matters: Understanding Gaps in Medical and Nursing Task Training for Cancer Caregivers

    Family caregivers are essential members of the care team, often managing demanding medical and nursing tasks without formal training. This session will highlight the challenges caregivers face and based on insights from NAC research, pinpoint key areas where training and support are urgently needed. Our goal is to outline a path toward a more supportive […]

  • Your Story Matters: Understanding the Financial Challenges of Cancer Caregiving

    NAC research shows that family caregiving can have a severe financial impact, with many caregivers stopping saving, taking on debt, or having difficulty paying for basic expenses. This session will explore the financial hardship faced by cancer caregivers, including the out-of-pocket costs and lost wages. Register

  • Strengthening Complex Care Through Family Caregiver Integration

    Life-saving treatments—such as organ transplant and cancer therapy—represent major clinical milestones, but they also mark the beginning of a demanding and long-term caregiving journey. Across many areas of care, family caregivers quickly become essential partners, managing complex medication regimens, coordinating frequent appointments, monitoring symptoms, and supporting daily recovery needs. These responsibilities continue long after discharge, […]

  • From Insights to Action: Practical Methods for Integrating Caregivers into Care Delivery

    Building on our March webinar, where we explored why family caregivers are essential partners in complex care, this session will focus on how health systems are integrating them into care delivery. Learn how hospitals and health systems are testing, implementing, and expanding caregiver support programs across different caregiving contexts and patient populations. The session will also […]

  • Caregiver Training Services in Practice: Utilization, Impact, and Implementation

    Medicare’s Caregiver Training Services (CTS) reimburse certain providers for delivering structured training and education to family caregivers when those skills are necessary for the patient’s treatment plan. These codes represent a new avenue for caregiver support and are beginning to be implemented across healthcare systems. This session will examine how these efforts are emerging and […]