Research Findings & Updates
Caregiving in the U.S. 2025: Caring Across States
National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP, October 2025 Released just in time for National Family Caregivers Month, a new companion report to Caregiving in the U.S. 2025—Caring Across States—offers valuable insights…
The State Of Family Caregiving
Research conducted by the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and sponsored by Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. Nearly half of America’s states are on the brink of a caregiving…
America’s Unseen Workforce
Research conducted by the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and sponsored by Otsuka America Pharmaceutical. Approximately 45 million family caregivers in the United States are providing an estimated…
Respite for ME Grants First Year Evaluation Report
Kimberly Snow and Jayne Foley, Catherine Cutler Institute, December 2023 The 2021 Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan proposed by Governor Mills and approved by the State Legislature, established the Respite…
ARCH Provides Feedback on AHRQ’s Technical Brief Protocol for the Evidence Map on Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) project.
Select members of the ARCH Committee for Advancement of Respite Research joined ARCH in submitting recommendations to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) on their Technical Brief Protocol…
ARCH Urges the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research to include research on respite and caregiving in Long-Range Plan
On October 13, 2023, the ARCH National Respite Network and Resource Center provided recommendations to the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) to include research on…
ARCH Awards Evaluation Mini-grants to four outstanding Innovative and Exemplary Respite Services
Each year since 2019, ARCH has been seeking and selecting respite services that meet a stringent set of criteria for innovation and excellence. The purpose of the ARCH Innovative and Exemplary…
Impact: Engaging Communities Underrepresented in Disability Research
ICI’s Research and Training Center on Community Living (RTC-CL), University of Minnesota, Spring 2023 This special issue of Impact highlights critical disability research questions derived from a State of the Science meeting…
The Senior Companion Program Plus (SCP Plus): Examining the Preliminary Effectiveness of a Lay Provider Program to Support African American Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) Caregivers.
Xu, L.; Fields, N.L.; Williams, I.C.; Gaugler, J.E.; Kunz-Lomelin, A.; Cipher, D.J.; Feinhals, G. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20, 5380. A culturally informed, peer-led, lay provider model, the Senior…
Supporting social connection for people living with dementia: lessons from the findings of the TRIO study
Prendergast, L.M., Toms, G., Seddon, D., Jones, C., Anthony, B.F. and Edwards, R.T. (2023). Working with Older People, Vol. No. ahead-of-print. The purpose of this paper is to share the learning…