A Policy Framework to Support California s Family Caregivers
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1 A Policy Framework to Support California s Family Caregivers For information: Kathleen Kelly, MPA Executive Director Family Caregiver Alliance 180 Montgomery Street, Suite 1100 San Francisco, CA (415) Family Caregiver Alliance. All rights reserved
2 Family Caregiver Alliance This California Family Caregiver Policy Framework is a set of principles and values that should guide public policy development and implementation. This framework provides a way to gauge the extent to which public policies support California s 3.4 million family caregivers. Definitions Care Receivers are individuals with adult-onset long-term disability or illness, who need ongoing or intermittent assistance with everyday tasks to function and may or may not live with the family caregiver. Persons who receive care may receive all or part of their care from family caregivers, or may receive care from others. In keeping with the federal Olmstead decision, care receivers must be assured appropriate access to services and choice, including the option to remain in the community and avoid unnecessary institutionalization. Family caregivers include unpaid friends, relatives, spouses, partners or neighbors who are involved in caregiving for an adult who needs help with every day tasks to function. This interpersonal relationship may involve multiple caregivers or more than one person receiving care. Caregiving may include accessing, arranging and coordinating hands-on personal care, emotional and financial support, managing medical care and other care, transportation, shopping, cleaning, and decision making about health, financial, personal and legal matters. This care may be full or part time and may be shared between family caregivers. Public Policy includes the laws, regulations, practices, and procedures that shape the ways care and services are interpreted, delivered, paid for, monitored and evaluated. (Levine, Ethical Framework) Policymakers include elected and appointed officials, agency staff who implement policy at the state and local levels, and managers in private organizations that contract with government agencies to administer public programs. (Levine, Ethical Framework) The California Family Caregiver Policy Framework was developed with support by Grant Award 92-97/9 (Real Choice System Change: California Respite for Adults, 2003) from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to California Department of Mental Health (DMH) contracting with Family Caregiver Alliance. 2
3 A Policy Framework to Support California s Family Caregivers California s Family Caregivers and Public Policy Families have long assumed obligations to care for each other in times of illness and frailty and will always play a predominant role in providing care. (Levine, Ethical Framework) Society places great value on supportive family relationships as a foundation upon which to build stable communities. This framework is intended to highlight the essential role played by family caregivers and to advocate for consideration of this role when crafting public policy. Nearly eighty percent (80%) of all care to Californians 18 years of age or older is provided by family caregivers. Thirty-one percent (31%) of caregivers are also still responsible for raising children under the age of 18. Seventy-five percent (75%) of family caregivers are women. Caregivers average 51 years of age, usually at the peak of one s earning potential. Fully one-half of family caregivers are employed outside the home, often needing to make adjustments in the hours they work, find different jobs that will accommodate their caregiver responsibilities, or make other difficult workplace or career compromises. The economic value of informal caregiving in the state is estimated at 45 billion dollars. Public policies that support family caregiving must acknowledge and respect the significant societal and economic value provided by family caregivers, and enable families to continue to provide care. Offering support to family caregivers can enable caregivers to continue to provide care, work as long as possible outside the home to maintain the family s financial security, postpone or avoid unnecessary institutionalization of the care receiver, and prevent caregivers themselves from becoming recipients of care. However, public policy cannot automatically assume that family caregiving can or should be continued in every instance. Care receivers may choose not to receive care from family members or families may not always be available, in a position to or should not provide care. Families who provide care do not have unlimited physical, emotional or financial resources. Most people prefer to receive care in home and community settings and be as independent as is possible. Support for family caregivers will help to ensure that care provided is safe for both the person receiving care and the family caregiver. Family caregiving must be viewed as a workable choice by both family caregivers and care receivers, not as an irrevocable duty. Policymakers must continually examine the extent to which policies support family caregiving and understand the impact of policies on family caregivers. Care must be taken so that policies do not inadvertently treat family caregivers as unconditional and limitless resources, to the potential detriment of family caregiver or care receiver s well-being. 3
4 Family Caregiver Alliance Public Policy Framework to Support California Family Caregivers Basic principles necessary for public policy to support California Family Caregivers are: Principle 1: Principle 2: Principle 3: Principle 4: Public policy must formally acknowledge, value, and respect family caregivers as essential components of the community-based care system. Public policy must recognize that many family caregivers need support. Public policy must provide family caregivers with a voice and a choice in decisions that both affect them and the care receiver. Public policy must ensure that supportive services are adequate, available, affordable, equitable, effective and accountable. 4
5 A Policy Framework to Support California s Family Caregivers Principle 1: Public policy must formally acknowledge, value, and respect family caregivers. Public policy must: a. Include consideration of the impact on family caregivers. Policies must be analyzed or evaluated to avoid shifting responsibility onto family caregivers without commensurate supports or compensation. b. Reflect the value and respect the contributions of family caregiving. Policies should strengthen the relationships between family caregivers and those who receive care and preserve the intimacy, privacy, confidentiality and decisionmaking that takes place in the family setting. c. Recognize that family caregivers have a choice in providing care. Policies must serve to support family caregivers as they balance their desire to provide care with their need to maintain their own physical, mental and social well-being. Principle 2: Public policy must recognize that many family caregivers need support. Public policy must: a. Include a consistent way to assess and measure the needs and choices of family caregivers and care receivers. Care receivers and family caregivers will have different needs, depending on their personal preferences, their cognitive, physical and behavioral capabilities, and their systems of support. Family caregivers have the right to consideration of their own needs and well-being. b. Offer flexible support that complements the changing nature of caregiving. The needs, preferences and abilities of family caregivers and care receivers will change over time. Policies must be able to recognize and accommodate changes in the level, frequency and intensity of care required and provided. c. Include mechanisms to identify and intervene in situations that could be potentially exploitive or abusive for either the family caregiver or person receiving care. d. Reflect the diversity of California s family caregivers. Age, gender, cultural identity, sexual orientation and other individual identifying characteristics may change the types of supports that are appropriate for and acceptable to both the family caregiver and care receiver. 5
6 Family Caregiver Alliance Principle 3: Public policy must provide family caregivers with a voice and a choice in decisions that both affect them and the care receiver. Public policy must: a. Permit family caregivers to act as advocates for care receivers who cannot act on their own behalf. (Levine, Ethical Framework) b. Make readily available information and options to help family caregivers secure the resources, assistive technology, and services necessary to provide care. c. Make it possible for family caregivers to make informed choices about their ability and willingness to provide care of difference kinds. (Levine, Ethical Framework) d. Accommodate conflict resolution between family caregivers, care receivers, providers and professionals about the setting, goals, and approach to the provision of care. (Levine, Ethical Framework) Principle 4: Public policy must ensure that supportive services are adequate, available, affordable, equitable, effective and accountable. Public policy must: a. Be fair, based on defined criteria and balance the needs of urban, suburban and rural family caregivers of all socioeconomic circumstances, and recognize the particular features and needs of each. (Levine, Ethical Framework) b. Result in more affordable, readily available, coordinated and quality supportive services. (National Alliance for Caregiving) c. Result in the ability to identify unmet needs, work to fill gaps, expand capacity, avoid unnecessary duplication of effort, prevent displacement of services, and work to eliminate funding or programmatic fragmentation or isolation. d. Collect data to determine program and service costs and benefits, measure outcomes, identify changes needed, promote evidence-based best practices, and plan for the future. e. Include periodic and effective periodic oversight to ensure that systems of care are held to ethical and operational standards and that they meet the purpose for which they were designed. 6
7 A Policy Framework to Support California s Family Caregivers References and Suggested Reading Canadian Caregiver Coalition, Working Paper for a Canadian Caregiving Strategy, Ottawa, Ontario, 2004, California Hospice and Palliative Care Association, Standards for Quality Hospice Care, Sacramento, CA, 2003, Quality_Hospice_Care)2003.pdf Daniels, Norman PhD, Just Health Care, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Daniels, Norman PhD, Toward Ethical Review of Health System Transformations, American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 96, No. 3, March Family Caregiver Alliance, California Caregivers: A Profile, San Francisco, CA, June 1, 2007, Houser, Ari, and Gibson, Mary Jo, Valuing the Invaluable: A New Look at State Estimates of the Economic Value of Family Caregiving, Data Digest 158, AARP Public Policy Institute, Washington, D.C., June Levine, Carol, M.A., and Thomas H. Murray, PhD. (Foreword by Christine K. Cassell, M.D.), The Cultures of Caregiving: Conflict and Common Ground among Families, Health Professionals, and Policy Makers, (Chapter 7: Explaining the Paradox of Long-Term Care Policy), The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, Levine, Carol, Family Caregivers Odysseys through the Health Care System, United Hospital Fund, New York, Levine, Carol, The Loneliness of the Long-Term Caregiver, New England Journal of Medicine, 340 (1999), Levine, Carol, New York State Policy Agenda for Family Caregivers, United Hospital Fund, New York, NY, November 14, 2006, Caregiver_Policy_final.pdf Levine, Carol, An Ethical Framework for New York State Policy Concerning Family Caregivers, United Hospital Fund, New York, November 14, 2006, uhfnyc.org/usr_doc/ethical_framework_final.pdf National Alliance for Caregiving, Family Caregiver and Public Policy: Principles for Change, Bethesda, MD, December 1, 2003, principles04.pdf 7
8 Family Caregiver Alliance National Guideline Clearinghouse, Caregiver Assessment: Principles, Guidelines and Strategies for Change, aspx?ss=15&doc_id=9670&nbr=5179 Nelson, James PhD, Hippocrates Maze: Ethical Explorations of the Medical Labyrinth, (Chapter 3: Just Expectations: Family Caregivers, Practical Identities and Social Justice in the Provision of Health Care), Lanham, MD, Rowman and Littlefield, Reinhard, Susan C., Caregiver Assessment: Filling the Gap in Policy and Practice, Rutgers Center for State Health Policy, Presented at the Family Caregiver Alliance/American Society on Aging preconference session: Family Caregiving: State of the Art, Future Trends, Chicago, Illinois, March 6, Thompson, L., Long-term care: Support for family caregivers [Issue Brief], Washington, D.C., Georgetown University, 2004, Long-term Care Financing Project. Wikler, Daniel and Miriam Hirschfield, World Health Organization, Ethical Choices in Long-Term Care: What Does Justice Require?, Geneva, Switzerland, Acknowledgments The following individuals participated in group discussions and/or provided written comments to critique the basic principles contained in this policy framework. Participant names and affiliated organizations are listed for identification purpose only and do not imply endorsement. The thoughtful debate and generous contributions toward the development of this policy framework are sincerely appreciated. Family Caregiver Alliance is solely responsible for the final product. Gartia Bansah, Project Coordinator Adult and Older Adult Program Policy California Department of Mental Health Donna Benton, PhD, Director Los Angeles Caregiver Resource Center Donna Calame, Director San Francisco In-Home Supportive Services Authority Judy Citko, J.D., Executive Director Coalition for Compassionate Care Ann Collentine Adult and Older Adult Program Policy California Department of Mental Health Lynn Daucher, Director California Department of Aging Lynn Friss Feinberg, M.S.W., Deputy Director National Center on Caregiving Family Caregiver Alliance Mark Helmar, Deputy Director Office of Long-term Care California Department of Health Services 8
9 A Policy Framework to Support California s Family Caregivers Dee Lemonds Adult and Older Adult Program Policy California Department of Mental Health Carol Levine, Director Families and Health Care Project United Hospital Fund of New York Robert MacLaughlin, Consultant California Senate Subcommittee on Aging and Long-Term Care Stephen W. Mayberg, PhD, Director California Department of Mental Health Janet Morris, J.D. Long-Term Care Project Director Bet Tzedek Cheryl Phillips, M.D. Sutter Health Kate O Malley, R.N. California HealthCare Foundation Susan Poor Health Care Policy, Planning and Organizational Consulting Allison Ruff, Principle Consultant California Assembly Committee on Aging and Long-Term Care Andrew Scharlach, PhD, Professor School of Social Welfare University of California, Berkeley Terri Thorfinnson, J.D., Director Office of Women s Health California Department of Health Services F. Burns Vick, J.D. Public Policy Consultant Joel Weeden, Aging Program Specialist Title III-E Family Caregiver Support Program California Department of Aging Daniel Wikler, PhD Harvard School of Public Health Kathleen Wilber, PhD Mary Pickford Foundation Professor of Gerontology Andrus Gerontology Center University of Southern California Staff and Consultants Kathleen Kelly, M.P.A., Executive Director Ethan Moore, Research Assistant Carol Van Steenberg, Consultant Family Caregiver Alliance Brenda G. Klutz Public Policy Consultant 9
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