Predictors of expressed, felt, and normative needs for informal caregiver counseling

Informal caregivers (CGs) are often stressed from caring for a long-term care-dependent older person and a corresponding lack of time [29]. Therefore, CGs express the need for formal support and counseling [1]. In Germany, informal caregiver counseling (ICC) is one of many support services that CGs can receive while giving care [11]. To better tailor such support to CGs’ needs, we aim to identify factors associated with the use of ICC and link them to CGs’ needs in line with Stirling et al.’s [27] need model.BackgroundInformal caregiver counseling (ICC)In 2009, CGs won the right to professional and free ICC in G…