Welcome to
The Confident Caregiver
More than 85 percent of long-term care for individuals with complex conditions is provided by one or more family members.
Family caregivers provide many different forms of help, but without the benefit of training, support, or strategies for managing daily care challenges and their own distress.
The Confident Caregiver program is designed to prepare any health and human service professional in any community-based or healthcare setting to support family caregivers of people with complex conditions. It does this by enhancing the caregiver’s confidence, offering validation, and sharing education and specific strategies to help caregivers address their most pressing care challenges and take care of themselves.
Get online training in The Confident Caregiver
Online training in The Confident Caregiver is now available from Plans4Care, Inc. Six self-paced modules, which include multi-media elements and ungraded self-study questions, take about eight hours to complete. Trainees also receive online access to course leaders for personalized coaching and implementation support.
The Confident Caregiver background and evidence
The Confident Caregiver program was developed by Drs. Laura Gitlin and Catherine Piersol and is based on more than 30 years of their research and clinical experience.
Read the full bios for the course co-creators here.
The program was commissioned by the University of Connecticut. Initial funding was provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Connecticut Department of Social Services, as part of the American Rescue Plan Act, Section 9817.