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Caregiver Research—The Latest News

Overview

For over a decade, The National Alliance for Caregiving has had as part of its core mission research on caregiving and family caregivers:

Who is providing care?
What challenges do they face?
What trends are emerging that the wider aging services and caregiver support network need to be aware of?

Hear about the latest research findings and some of the lessons being drawn from it.

What You Will Learn:

The impact of caregiving in the workplace.
The impact of caregiving on the health of the caregiver.
Trends in caregiving.

Speaker

Gail Gibson Hunt is President and CEO of the National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC), a non-profit coalition dedicated to conducting research and developing national programs for family caregivers and the professionals who serve them.

Prior to heading NAC, Ms. Hunt was president of her own aging services consulting firm for 14 years. She conducted corporate eldercare research for the National Institute on Aging and the Social Security Administration, developed training for caregivers with AARP and the American Occupational Therapy Association, and designed a corporate eldercare program for EAPs with the Employee Assistance Professional Association.

Prior to having her own firm, she was Senior Manager in charge of human services for the Washington, DC, office of KPMG Peat Marwick.

Ms. Hunt attended Vassar College and graduated from Columbia University in New York. In May of 2004, she was appointed by the White House to serve on the Policy Committee for the 2005 White House Conference on Aging.