Financial Compensation of Family Caregivers: Gaps in Practice and Policy

In this Complex Care Journal Club podcast episode, Dr. Mark Brittan discusses a qualitative study of stakeholders in a family-certified nursing assistant program in Colorado. He describes the limitations of the paid family caregiver model, opportunities for advocacy, and the next steps from this work. SPEAKER Mark Brittan, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Section of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Children's Hospital Colorado HOST Kilby Mann, MD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine, Children's Hospital Colorado DATES Initial Publication: October 9, 2023 CITATION JOURNAL ARTICLE REFERENCED Brittan MS, Chavez C, Blakely C, Holliman BD, Zuk J. Paid Family Caregiving for Children With Medical Complexity. Pediatrics. 2023;151(6):e2022060198. doi:10.1542/peds.2022-060198 OTHER ARTICLES REFERENCED Foster CC, Kwon S, Blakely C, Carter K, Sobotka SA, Goodman DM, Agrawal R, Brittan M. Paying Family Medical Caregivers for Children's Home Healthcare in Colorado: A Working Medicaid Model. J Pediatr. 2023 Feb 10;261:113347. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2022.12.043. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36775189; PMCID: PMC10412725. Kaye N, Teshale S. Medicaid Supports for Family Caregivers. National Academy for State Health Policy. October 2020. Accessed September 22, 2023. https://www.nashp.org/wp‐content/uploads/2020/10/Medicaid‐Supports‐for‐Family‐Caregivers.pdf TRANSCRIPT https://op-docebo-images.s3.amazonaws.com/Transcripts/Financial+Compensation+of+Family+Caregivers_Brittan_100923.pdf Clinicians across healthcare professions, advocates, researchers, and patients/families are all encouraged to engage and provide feedback! You can recommend an article for discussion using this form: https://forms.gle/Bdxb86Sw5qq1uFhW6 Please visit: http://www.openpediatrics.org OPENPediatrics™ is an interactive digital learning platform for healthcare clinicians sponsored by Boston Children’s Hospital and in collaboration with the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies. It is designed to promote the exchange of knowledge between healthcare providers around the world caring for critically ill children in all resource settings. The content includes internationally recognized experts teaching the full range of topics on the care of critically ill children. All content is peer-reviewed and open-access and thus at no expense to the user. For further information on how to enroll, please email: openpediatrics@childrens.harvard.edu