Reducing Violence Risk: Home Healthcare Nurses and Early Identification of Informal Caregiver Burden.

An expanding body of literature suggests that informal caregiver burden is a growing issue that negatively impacts care recipients, informal caregivers, and formal care providers. Costs associated with informal caregiver burden include risk to the informal caregiver's physical, emotional, and psychological well-being and increased potential to perpetrate violence. By identifying interventions to support informal caregivers, home healthcare nurses can help decrease the risk of negative outcomes and reduce the burden on informal caregivers.