Caregiver Awareness
Are you a family caregiver? A. Yes, B. No, or C. Maybe
A family caregiver is any relative, partner, friend, or neighbor who provides unpaid, significant assistance to an adult with a chronic, disabling, or age-related condition. They manage tasks like medication, transportation, and personal care (bathing/dressing), often serving as key decision-maker.
What percent of caregivers care for a relative or loved one? A: less than 30%, B: less than 60%, or C: approximately 85%
What is approximately 85%?
True or False: Caregivers manage their own health needs very well because of their knowledge of health concerns.
False
Caregivers in Central Indiana feel emotionally and physically burdened by their roles, with 27% reporting emotional burden and 24% feeling physically burdened.
What are the qualifications to enroll in the CICOA CareAware program?
This is a Title III E program through FSSA, funded through the Older Americans Act.
True or False: Dementia is a normal part of aging.
False.
Dementia is not a normal part of aging. While the risk of dementia increases as people get older—particularly after age 65—it is a disease, not a guaranteed outcome of growing old. Many people live their entire lives without developing dementia
True or False: Caregivers play an indispensable role in ensuring the health, dignity, and quality of life for the people they serve.
True
Approximately what percentage of caregivers are women? A:23-50%, B: 53-75%, or C: 100%
What is 53-75%.
What can lower caregiver stress?
What are self-care tasks (doing something you enjoy, relaxation techniques, adequate sleep, eating nutritiously, caring for health), seeking support (support groups, therapy, speaking about role), and respite?
What is Caregiver Way
Caregiver access to an online caregiver support platform that offers self-paced support from videos, journal prompts, and communication with other caregivers. The platform is a product of Joy's House.
What causes dementia? A. Senility, B. Bad diet, C. Damaged brain cells
Damaged brain cells, commonly due to diseases like Alzheimer’s, vascular dementia (from stroke), Lewy body dementia, or frontotemporal dementia
What are the 2 types of caregivers
What is paid/professional caregivers and unpaid family caregivers.
Professional caregivers are trained to provide care as part of their job. Home health aides, nurses, therapists, direct support professionals and hospice workers are professional caregivers.
Family caregivers provide care without formal training or compensation. They may balance caregiving with other responsibilities, such as work or parenting.
How many Americans provide care for loved ones every day?
The 2025 AARP report shows nearly 1 in 4 U.S. adults—approximately 63 million Americans—provide unpaid, daily care for a family member or loved one. These caregivers, with a large percentage being women around age 49, provide an average of 20–27 hours of care per week for individuals with chronic illnesses, disabilities, or age-related needs.
True or False: Care recipients always die before their informal caregivers.
False.
Approximately 30% of caregivers die before their loved one receiving the care.
What is the Aging Brain Care (ABC) Program?
Caregiver access to a Certified ABC Community Care Coach who administers the Healthy Aging Brain Care (HABC) Monitor assessment and delivers the Caregiver Stress Prevention Bundle (CSPB) which includes: a) caregiver education and referral, b) development of crisis plans, c) help scheduling caregiver time off, and d) facilitating support group participation. ABC Community aims to reduce caregiver stress.
Name 3 symptoms of dementia.
Any 3 of these: memory loss, confusion, problems planning, agitation, impaired judgement, delusions, changes in sleep patterns, mood changes, difficulty with language, wandering, difficulty performing familiar tasks, disorientation, wandering, social withdrawal, and etc.
Who wrote this famous quote:
There are only four kinds of people in the world: those who have been caregivers, those who are currently caregivers, those who will be caregivers, and those who will need caregivers.
A. Rosalyn Carter, B. LeVar Burton, or C. Mr. Rogers
Rosalynn Carter, former First Lady of the United States and a passionate advocate for caregiving
This policy guarantees individuals time off work who need time off from work to care for a seriously ill loved one.
What is Family and Medical Leave Act?
These are the risk factors for caregiver stress (name 2 to be correct).
What is being female, age, living with the person being cared for, social isolation, having depression/mental health conditions, financial difficulties, higher # of hours spent caregiving, lack of coping skills/difficulty solving problems, lack of choice in being a caregiver, lack of self-care.
What types of Respite are formally offered through CareAware
What is out of home respite (Adult Day Service) and in-home respite
Adult day service: structured, community-based programs that offer supervised care, social engagement, emotional support, and often health-related services for adults
In-home respite: provided in the home of the caregiver or care recipient and allows the caregiver time away to do other activities; during respite, other activities can occur which may offer additional support to either the caregiver or care recipient, including homemaker or personal care services
Name the Dementia program housed within CICOA, bonus points if you can name our Dementia Diva outreach specialist
Dementia Friends Indiana
Dementia Friends Indiana is a statewide initiative, launched by CICOA Aging & In-Home Solutions in 2018, that aims to increase dementia awareness, reduce stigma, and create supportive communities. It is part of a global movement to train citizens to understand, communicate with, and support people living with dementia, helping them remain connected to their communities
Dementia Friendly Indianapolis
Dementia Friendly Indianapolis (DFI) is a community action team launched in January 2023 that works to make Indianapolis more supportive, respectful, and accessible for people living with dementia and their caregivers. As part of the national Dementia Friendly America network, it focuses on raising awareness, offering education, and providing resources to reduce stigma and foster a welcoming, safe community.
Holly Hess, MSHM, CDP, QMCP
mshm- master of science in healthcare management
cdp- certified dementia practitioner
qmcp- qualified memory care professional
What are 4 ways in which CICOA is positively impacting and advocating for Caregivers
Any of the 4 answers are acceptable: CICOA Caregiver Support: CareAware, Caregiver Blog on CICOA website, CareAware Journey (creating caregiver friendly workplaces), Dementia Friendly Indianapolis (creating caregiver friendly communities), Dementia Diva Holly Hess, Long Term Care Ombudsman funding, Memory Cafe, and Legal Clinic
How much time is spent per week (on average) providing care to a loved one? A: 5-10 hours per week, B: 11-20 hours per week, or C: 24-26 hours per week
What is 24-26 hours per week.
Family caregivers spend an average of 24.4 to 26 hours per week providing care, according to the Family Caregiver Alliance and Guardian Life.
This is the percent of dementia caregivers that are depressed. A: 20%, B: 40%, or C: 60%
Approximately 40% of family caregivers of people with dementia suffer from depression compared to 5-17% of non-caregivers of similar ages. (Figure found from Family Caregiver Alliance)
What is Caregiver Case Management
To assess caregiver needs, offer information and assistance(resources), develop care plans, authorize and coordinate services, and provide follow-up and reassessment, as needed/required
True or False: Dementia only affects older adults.
False.
While dementia is more common in older people, it is not a normal part of aging, and it can affect younger adults (sometimes called young-onset dementia age 40-50) or even children.