Caring for Those Who Care, the DEC’s signature training curriculum, is a resource for health, social service providers, and aging professionals to learn about the unique needs of diverse family caregivers. Now, hosted on the SAGECare training platform, this curriculum has been refreshed and expanded, using findings from the DEC’s 2025 literature review on diverse family caregiving. The 2025 literature review along with SAGECare collaboration allowed the inclusion of LGBTQ+ people of color and direct care workers in the curriculum.
The training curriculum will equip professionals with insights into the lived experiences of the following populations:
- African American and Black Caregivers
- American Indian and Alaska Native Caregivers
- Chinese American and Korean American Caregivers
- Hispanic and Latino Caregivers
- LGBTQ+ Caregivers (With attention on LGBTQ+ people of color)
- Southeast Asian American Caregivers
- Direct care workers
Video Series Overview: What This Training Covers
To introduce the refreshed Caring for Those Who Care curriculum now hosted on the SAGECare platform, the DEC and SAGECare have recorded a 60-minute introductory session and will be releasing it as a short video series on a bi-weekly basis. This approach allows viewers to engage with the content in focused segments for optimal engagement and connecting audiences to fully immerse with each diverse community.
The series begins with an opening video where the DEC and SAGECare will introduce the collaboration and purpose of the updated curriculum. Subsequent videos will spotlight each caregiving community represented in the training, offering a high-level look at the lived realities, barriers, and strengths that shape the unique diverse caregiving experiences represented by the DEC and SAGECare.
Across the video series, viewers will:
- Get a high level introduction to the diverse caregiving communities represented in the curriculum and how their experiences are reflected throughout the training
- Preview core topics covered in the full modules, including culture and identity in caregiving, health and well-being impacts, and organizational best practices
- Learn key themes and headline findings from the DEC national caregiving survey and the 2025 literature review, including updated insights on LGBTQ+ caregivers of color and direct care workers
- Learn how organizations can engage more deeply with SAGECare’s full suite of modules and DEC’s caregiving advocacy toolkits, one-pagers, and community-specific resources
Policy Toolkit: Turning Research into Action
To complement the updated training curriculum, the DEC has developed the Policy Toolkit: Advancing Equity in Caregiving that translates our latest literature review into clear, actionable guidance for state policymakers and community-based professionals. Organized around five pillars — Family & Friend Caregivers, Cultural Competence & Intersectionality, Community-based Care, Direct Care Workforce, and Data & Research — the toolkit turns key evidence into concrete policy and practice recommendations. Each recommendation is grounded in peer-reviewed studies and national reports, with citations included so users can easily access the underlying research.
Upon completion of the DEC x SAGECare training hosted on the SAGECare platform, participants will recieve the full toolkit, including ready-to-use talking points, recommendations, and data designed to strengthen equitable, culturally repsonve systems of care for diverse older adults and the caregivers who support them
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The research and development of this training curriculum has been generously funded by The John A. Hartford Foundation.
Curriculum was co-developed with the expertise of the Diverse Elders Coalition Member Organizations: