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Family Caregivers of Older Adults:
NASW Standards for Social Work Practice
Amy Berman, RN, BSChris Herman, MSW, LICSWJamie Huysman, PsyD, LCSWNora O’Brien-Suric, PhD
Today’s Session
• Aging demographic shift• Importance of family caregivers• New standards from NASW• Importance of caring for the Caregiver• Your call to action
The Aging Demographic
• Happy Birthday, Boomers• Doubling of Older Adults• Skewing Older
Need for Family Caregivers
• Backbone of health care (IOM)• 42 million caregivers• Contributions exceed $450 million/yr• What happens when unsupported?
Professionals Supporting Family Caregivers
• Grant to AARP Foundation• Partnership [AoA, NASW, FCA]
1. Prototype Caregiver Support
2. Social Work Practice Standards
3. Increase Consumer Demand
4. Inform Policymakers
Social Work and Family Caregiving
• Family systems• Person-in-environment framework• Micro-, mezzo, & macro-level interventions• Strengths perspective
Goals of the NASW Standards
Project beneficiaries = family caregivers• Enhance social work practice• Educate the public• Advocate for family caregivers
Development of the Standards
• Gerontological social work competencies• State of the Science symposium (2008)• Social work expert panel• NASW member survey• Public comment period
Standards Content (handout)
• Introductory material• Twelve standards• Resource list
Dissemination of the Standards
• November 2010 release• Use of multiple NASW channels• Promotion by partners: • Central role of social work expert
panel
Putting the Standards into Practice
• Presentations, publications, & web• National & international audiences• Students & practitioners• Supervisors & administrators• Other professionals & service providers• Family caregivers• Social work curricula & field placements• Continuing education & employee training• GECs & other organizations
Family Caregiver Alliance Webinar
Title: NASW Standards for Social Work Practice with Family Caregivers of Older Adults
Presenter: Sandra Edmonds Crewe, PhD, ACSW, MSW
Date: July 29, 2011
Archived audio recording & slides: www.caregiver.org/caregiver/jsp/content_node.jsp?nodeid=2491
Social Work Expert Panel & Other External Advisors
Patricia Brownell, PhD, MSW
Catherine A. Clancy, PhD, LCSW
JoAnn Damron-Rodriguez, PhD, LCSW
Sandra Edmonds Crewe, PhD, ACSW, MSW
Lorraine Hedtke, LCSW, PhD
Forrest Hong, PhD, LCSW, C-ASWCM
Jamie Huysman, PsyD, LCSW
Phyllis Mensh Brostoff, CISW, ACSW, CMC
Nora O’Brien-Suric, PhD, MA
Miriam Sterk, LCSW, C-ASWCM
Cynthia Stuen, DSW/PhD, ACSW, LCSW
Amy Berman, BS, RN
Rita Choula, BS
Susan Reinhard, PhD, RN, FAAN
Tracy R. Whitaker, DSW, ACSW
Accessing the Standards• Single copy:
www.socialworkers.org/practice
• Multiple copies: www.naswpress.org
Attention to the contributions, strengths, needs, and goals of family caregivers of older adults is integral to social work practice.
–NASW Standards for Social Work Practice with Family Caregivers of Older Adults (2010), p. 17
The Standards…“The Times They Are A’ Changing”
Our Roles As:
Advocates of the Standards
Advocates of Older Adults
Advocates for Ourselves
Honor The Elders Through Sacred Fire
Native American wisdom: • Is deep, profound, simple and true.• Focuses on healing wounds, and
bringing peace through good feelings, not fear.
The standards are our fire
What Do the Standards Mean to Us as Professional
Caregivers?• Consistency & integrity• Warmth and safety• Awareness--we can no longer be naive!
Standards and the Changing Healthcare Environment
• Define minimum expectations in practice• Corrective experience for healthcare• Enrich performance and efficacy
The Roadmap for Professional Caregivers
• Standards provide information for different systems to:– Deliver consistent care– Support quality of care and integrity
Feeling the Fire: Integrating Standards into Profession
• Monitoring performance not sufficient• Need for sustained improvements• Role of governance
Putting the Standards into Practice
The $64,000 “Burning” Question:
Are implementing the Standards more work in times where we are asked to
do much more with much less?
Can They Be Successful If We Don’t Keep Our Fire Burning?
• ACO’s• Hospital Admissions• Readmissions
• Medicare Expenditures• Too Much Work• So much Falling on us
Burnout, Compassion Fatigue and the Standards
• Boundaries and Mind-Body-Spirit Health• Our personal ship needs to be seaworthy • Creating own Standards of Self Care
Ethical Imperative to Support Our Own “Sacred Fire”• NASW Clinical Standards only part of
the Quality of Care Story
The Fire That Burns from the Standards
• Our ongoing self care• Professional development plans• Seeking out mentoring, tutoring,
supervision or training opportunities
A Sioux Story
Importance of the NASW Standards
1. Provides guidance for meeting the needs of a growing population
2. Ensures competent & appropriate care
3. Raises awareness of the professionalism of social workers
The ChargeHelp caregivers receive the assistance
they need and elevate the professionalism of social workers by:
• Incorporating these standards into your practice, and
• Disseminating the standards to other social workers and agencies providing care to older adults and their caregivers.
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