Lead Researcher:
Robert Kaplan
Project Contact:
Jody Thompson
Project Contact Email:
Project Description:
The Finding Ease in Caregiving Project is a free, tailored improvisation skills program for individuals who are caregivers experiencing stress & caring for adults with chronic conditions.
Participants learn from the Primal Alexander™ improvisation strategy based in the Alexander Technique- a strategy that assists in developing self-efficacy to alter adverse behaviors and integrate mind-body awareness.
Inclusion criteria for participants are:
• Serve as a caregiver of an adult individual with a chronic condition for at least 6 months,
• Provide 2 hours of caregiving per day, minimum of 10 per week,
• Are over age 18,
• Lives with or can visit the care recipient in-person at least daily, as needed, &
• Have access to a computer with webcam and high-speed internet
Participants will meet once a week for 8 weeks via Zoom.
Project Sponsor:
Center for Innovation in Healthy and Resilient Aging
Project Status:
- Actively Recruiting