AAPI Caregiving in a Pandemic: Accessing Services and Supports

Are you a caregiver? Do you provide care to a relative, partner, friend, or neighbor from the Asian American and Pacific Islander community who has a chronic disease, disability, health condition, or is an elder (55 years of age or older)?

The help you are providing could be for many types of tasks such as:

• Personal care (bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting)
• Household chores and errands (light housekeeping, shopping, meal preparation, laundry)
• Banking and finances (checking accounts, paying bills)
• Healthcare needs (giving or monitoring medications, making medical decisions, cleaning wounds, giving injections)
• Staying with them so they are not alone
• Arranging for or going to doctor or other appointments
• Arranging for or checking on services or hired helpers
• Getting information about medications, care, services, symptoms, or treatments
• Coordinating help from family members, friends, professionals, and/or hired helpers
• Providing emotional support

This event will feature speakers, such as service providers and healthcare professionals, and will cover how to prioritize health during the pandemic, including:

• Mental health resources
• What is telehealth and access to in-language telehealth services,
• Best practices for talking about COVID-19 safety with your community

The event is part of a 2-part series to connect diverse family caregivers to local resources and give them an opportunity to share their stories with policymakers, providers, and advocates.

It is co-hosted by Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC) and National Asian Pacific Center on Aging (NAPCA), in collaboration with Diverse Elders Coalition (DEC) and National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC). It is funded by the John A Hartford Foundation.

Accessibility information:

This event will be held in English. It will feature speakers, which will require audio access to listen. It will feature presentation slides, which will require video access to view.

Following the event, we are planning to provide voice-over and/or subtitle translations of the recording into various AAPI languages to be shared out publicly.

Information for how to join the virtual listening session will be emailed out before the event. Participants can join with the following options:

• Using the customized website link to join online or through the Zoom app on your phone (audio and video access)
• Calling the customized number by phone (audio access only, no video access)