Caregiver Support Expansion: Peer Help, Respite, Planning, and Equity

Caregivers need concrete respite, shared responsibility, peer support, navigation, behavioral guidance, wandering-safety planning, anticipatory-grief support, advance-care planning, and practical guidance when evaluating long-term care. Medicare GUIDE and local education, memory-cafe, and support-group programs may help, but eligibility, geographic reach, affordability, dementia-specific quality, and outcomes remain uneven.