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Tamilyn Bakas
Associate Professor
Department of Adult Health Nursing
tbakas@iupui.edu
Telephone Assessment and Skill-Building Kit for Stroke Caregivers
Dr. Bakas developed the Telephone Assessment and Skill-Building Kit (TASK) in a study funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research (K01NR008712). The TASK program involves a notebook with 40 tip sheets and 8 weekly calls by a nurse to help families develop the skills they need to provide care for a stroke survivor during the first few months after he or she comes home. If shown to be efficacious in a randomized controlled clinical trial, the TASK program will be translated into practice to provide health care providers with a program they can use for follow-up care for family caregivers of stroke survivors.
