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Some critical issues in caregiver intervention research

The preceding papers by Zarit and Leitsch on community based intervention programs, and by Beck on services and interventions in nursing home settings are encyclopedic in their coverage of the progress and challenges of conducting intervention research in these respective settings. Zarit and Leitsch seek to shape the agenda for developing optimal strategies for community-based interventions by focusing on three key issues; (a) addressing the needs of caregivers and care recipients in context; (b) the design of successful interventions; and (c) appropriate strategies for evaluating programs. In a similar vein, Beck identifies needed areas of research and theoretical, design, and measurement issues that should be addressed if we are to advance the field of nursing home intervention research. Together, the two papers identify and discuss at least two-dozen critical issues. Both the selection of topics and the insight with which they are covered attest to the authors’ extensive experience with, and knowledge of, their respective research areas. These comments will focus on a few of the many important issues identified by the authors, with a primary emphasis placed on the articulation of a much needed taxonomy for characterizing psychosocial intervention studies.