Sheila Warnock describes Share the Caregiving, a program that trains health professionals to identify exhausted family caregivers and help them start peer support groups. Clinicians introduce the program, mentor caregivers through launching their group, and connect them to resources when problems arise.
with health professionals, and you are our primary target audience in, in that you are the people that are in the field every day looking at caregivers and patients struggling with what to do and how to do it. So we thought at Share the Caregiving the best way to reach them is through you, because they're exhausted. They're at home. They're doing their jobs all the time. They never look for help and they never think to to ask for it. So, um, the idea is for you to serve as the person to introduce them to Share the Care. If you understand it and can explain it clearly, then they might take an interest in actually using it. I see your roles as sort of like a mentor to groups. Introduce them to it, encourage them, help them brainstorm to find the two people that are needed to start a group and maybe be a sounding board during the lifetime of the group when issues come up or they need to know where to go to get the right help because you can direct them in the, in the health community on whatever they need.
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