“Life-course Cooperative Care (LCC)” project aims to develop innovative solutions that support family caregivers to preserve, exert, and transform resilient capacities to achieve optimal family functioning and quality of life of family members. Capacity building and belief embodiment for stakeholders, especially family caregivers, are two pillars in the support model. Guided by the life-course perspective, LCC synthetizes empirical evidence on social determinants and effective interventions on parents with young children and adolescent, families taking care of adult members with health needs, and family caregiving for frail older adults in Chinese communities. It also serves as a one-stop platform for researchers, practitioners, policy makers and the public to acquire knowledge on statistics of care needs, caregivers’ challenges, available interventions, and relevant publications, policies and news.
LCC advocates the following perspectives to advance our understanding on family caregiving:
– A life-course perspective
– Family empowerment and capacity building
– Cooperation across sectors
– Optimal family functioning and quality of life
Family caregiving has a high prevalence along family life cycle. However, the existing caregiving literature revealed five limitations, which refer to age-specification, sector-segregation, burden-focused, individualization and static segmentedness. This website proposed a new perspective to explore family caregiving, featuring life-long prevalence, cooperation, positive merits and strength, dyadic interplay and dynamic process.
This website can serve as a one-stop information platform for researchers, practitioners, policy makers and the public to acquire knowledge on statistics of care needs, caregivers’ challenges, available interventions, and relevant publications, policies and news.
The new perspective and conceptual framework proposed herein could optimize the current social and health care system with a more balanced and effective cooperation between informal and formal care providers.
Capacity building and belief embodiment for stakeholders, especially family caregivers is one of our major focuses.
Special acknowledgement is extended to Mr.Ming XUE for his contribution of the calligraphy to make the website logo.The original version is as below.
