U.S. caregivers draw support by mapping their relationships

U.S. caregivers are invited to create a CareMap - a hand-drawn picture showing all the people they care for as well as the people surrounding those individuals and their own sources of support. CareMaps are a tool created by the Atlas of Caregiving, a project that hopes to gather comprehensive data about family caregivers. The project's pilot study examined 14 families in California's San Francisco Bay Area who wore miniature cameras and sensors, kept a log of their activities and participated in extensive in-person interviews. One of the goals was to understand the "ecosystem of family caregiving, the relationships that surround caregivers and that shape their experiences."