Technology and Family Caregiving Help Us to Help Family Caregivers United Hospital Fund is interested in your feedback about the use of technology to assist family caregivers. * 1. Are you a family caregiver--an unpaid relative or close friend who provides essential care to one or more adults with chronic or terminal illness or serious mental or physical disabilities? Yes No * 2. Which of the following technologies, if any, are you already using? (Please check all that apply.) Electronic organizers of health information Electronic organizers to communicate with family members/friends and/or to schedule help Personal Emergency Response Systems or Medical Emergency Response Systems Home monitoring systems Tracking systems for outside the home None of the above * 3. Which factors might influence your choice to purchase any of these technologies? (Please check all that apply.) Privacy (limiting the information to people you specifically identify) Cost Intrusiveness Ease/difficulty of use Access/lack of access to Internet Willingness/resistance of family member Reliability None of the above Other (please specify) * 4. To help direct our future work, please tell us what is most important to you in thinking about technology as a tool to assist in caregiving. Next