Coordinating Center for Caregiver Intervention Trial

Exclusion Criteria

• •1. Non-English, non-Spanish speaking
• •2. Active treatment (chemotherapy, radiation therapy) for cancer
• •3. Imminent placement of care recipient into a nursing home or with another caregiver (within 6 months)
• •4. Involvement in another clinical trial for caregivers
• •5. Participant in REACH I study
• •6. SPMSQ:\> or = 4 errors\*
• •* If the caregiver has been inconsistent with answers or repeated answers during the screening process, then the interviewer administers the Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire (SPMSQ). If the caregiver missed 4 or more questions, he/she was excluded from the study.
• •1. Non-English, non-Spanish speaking
• •2. History of Parkinson's Disease or a stroke with no reported decline in memory over the past year
• •3. Active treatment (chemotherapy, radiation therapy) for cancer
• •4. More than three acute medical hospitalizations in past year (other than psychiatric or Alzheimer's Disease related admission)
• •5. Schizophrenia (onset of delusions before age 45) or other severe mental illness
• •6. Dementia secondary to head trauma (probable)
• •7. Blindness or deafness if either disability prohibits them from completion of data collection or participation in the interventions
• •8. MMSE = 0 and Bedbound (confined to a bed or chair for \>22 hours per day, for at least 4 of the past 7 days)
• •9. Planned nursing home admission in 6 months
• •10. Participant in REACH I study