Empowering Cardiovascular Health in Custodial Grandparents

Empowering Cardiovascular Health in Custodial Grandparents

In this study, the investigators will tailor an existing intervention (Rural Caregiver Heart Health Education (RICHH)) protocol and test its feasibility, acceptability, and initial effect with grandparent caregivers.

Grandparent (inclusion):

• Provides full-time care to at least one grandchild (< 18 years old) for at least 6 months, with no biological parent residing in the household or providing substantial care to the children
• Lives in Oregon
• Has English proficiency sufficient for informed consent and completion of study measures
• Provides signed informed consent

Grandparent (exclusion)

• Plans for transfer of care to other caregivers or setting for the next 12 months
• Has significant physical or emotional impairment, or psychiatric illness that might interfere with engagement in their own self-management or that is likely to result in their needing a caregiver in the next 12 months
• Chronic drug abuse
• Current active cancer (i.e., undergoing active treatment for cancer) other than isolated skin cancer