Letters of Intent for Pilot Projects Affirm the Heterogeneity of Dementia Family Caregiving

The Emory Roybal Center for Dementia Caregiving Mastery (P30AG064200) supports pilot intervention projects designed to enhance informal caregiving mastery and seeks to further their development, following the NIH Stage Model. The Center’s core assertions are that dementia caregiving is heterogeneous in nature and that caregiving role demands are positioned within a variety of intersections involving dementia stage and type, the nature of care tasks, caregiver‐care recipient relationships, and/or other social determinants including race/ethnicity, culture, class, and geography. Thus, interventions to develop/enhance caregiving mastery must be designed within the context of these intersections. This presentation demonstrates the resonance of the Center’s central theme and illustrates the wide range of caregiving situations/contexts investigators seek to address.