Finding Ease in Caregiving


Project Description:

The Finding Ease in Caregiving Project is a free, tailored improvisation skills program for individuals who are caregivers experiencing stress & caring for adults with chronic conditions. Participants learn from the Primal Alexander™ improvisation strategy based in the Alexander Technique- a strategy that assists in developing self-efficacy to alter adverse behaviors and integrate mind-body awareness. Inclusion criteria for participants are: • Serve as a caregiver of an adult individual with a chronic condition for at least 6 months, • Provide 2 hours of caregiving per day, minimum of 10 per week, • Are over age 18, • Lives with or can visit the care recipient in-person at least daily, as needed, & • Have access to a computer with webcam and high-speed internet Participants will meet once a week for 8 weeks via Zoom.

 

Project Status:

  • Actively Recruiting

Lead Researcher:

Robert Kaplan & Aaron Guest, PhD

Project Contact:

Jody Thompson

Project Contact Email:

jthompson@asu.edu

Project Sponsor:

Center for Innovation in Healthy and Resilient Aging