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Blueprint Site Plan — Examine Caregiving and Caregivers in the Context of Society at Large

• Describe caregivers.
• Quantify the societal cost savings attributed to caregiving.

Blueprint Floor Plan — Examine How Caregiving Affects Caregivers

• Document the effects of caregiving on caregiver outcomes.
• Assess the consequences of caregiving on the children of caregivers.
• Document the effects of caregiving on care recipient outcomes.
• Assess how the needs of care recipients change over time.
• Examine factors associated with caregiver and care recipient harm.

Blueprint Elevation — Examine How External Factors May Influence the Caregiving Experience

• Identify strategies for making effective programs available to more caregivers.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of programs and policies for ensuring caregiver well-being.
• Identify effective programs and policies to support caregivers' ability to provide care.

The United States is home to more than 21 million veterans, many of whom deployed to support combat operations around the globe during their military service and sustained service-related conditions or disabilities. Supporting these wounded, ill, and injured warriors once home are millions of informal caregivers — individuals who provide unpaid support with activities that enable the service member or veteran to live in a noninstitutionalized setting. In this report, researchers describe elements of a research blueprint to inform future efforts to improve support for military and veteran caregivers. To construct this blueprint, researchers inventoried currently available research on caregiving for disabled adults and children and gathered stakeholder input by conducting a survey and facilitating an online panel. The report highlights the need for more studies that examine how military and veteran caregiver needs evolve over time, how programs are working, and how caregiving affects specific subgroups. The resulting blueprint should serve as a guide for the caregiver support community to use in prioritizing and facilitating future research.

• Chapter One

  Introduction

• Chapter Two

  Methods

• Chapter Three

  The Blueprint

• Chapter Four

  Strategies to Consider for Using the Blueprint