STAR Caregivers - Virtual Training and Follow-up

"1. One 60 minute baseline orientation phone visit with a coach to get verbal consent for participation in the study and to acquaint the caregiver with the STAR-VTF components of good dementia care; distribute printed educational material (and links to same material online);~2. Six 30-minute follow-up phone calls with the caregiver following each of the 6 learning modules to review STAR-VTF concepts, and further brainstorm strategies to modify identified activators and consequences with the objective of reducing behavioral symptoms;~3. secure message support, as needed, with the coach to help with personalizing the STAR-VTF curriculum for up to 6 months."

"One 60 minute baseline orientation phone visit with a coach to get verbal consent for participation in the study. Controls will receive usual care from their primary care provider and/or psychiatrist. We will give participants an information package from the Alzheimer's Association including a list of resources. To assist with retention, and to measure responses to secure messages, we will send a template secure message to control dyads once per month in which we remind participants to contact their primary care provider if they have any issues with behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia. Dyads in the attention control may receive information and training from their primary care provider and the Alzheimer's Association. This attention control is proposed to assess the additional impact of STAR-VTF above treatment as usual. Investigators do not intend to track non-study training receipt in the control arm."