The first evidence-based, comprehensive training program for the family members caring for a loved one at home. Featuring three Cornell University faculty as curriculum advisors and two decades of in-home care experience.
Family caregivers come in three primary profiles. Whether you provide care unpaid or are also compensated through a state Medicaid program like New York's CDPAP or California's IHSS, the bootcamp is built for you.
You're holding a job, raising kids, and managing your parent's care from a distance — or down the block. You need a system, scripts, and the confidence to walk into the next medical appointment knowing what to ask.
Caring for your partner through a sudden crisis, a chronic illness, or a long cognitive decline. You need real techniques for the daily impossible, a plan for what comes next, and a community of people who actually understand.
Caring for a sibling, aunt, grandparent, or close family friend — often from a distance. You need a remote-friendly playbook, the legal paperwork demystified, and a framework you can hand to a relative on the ground.
Refined over years inside CompassCare from more than four hundred candidate topics into the most comprehensive curriculum for family caregivers in the consumer market.
The relationship at the center of caregiving. Communication, self-care, and the planning frameworks that make everything else possible.
The practical skills caregivers need every day — medications, vital signs, personal care, nutrition, mobility, home safety, and using technology well.
The harder terrain — mental and cognitive health, mobility and fall prevention, legal and financial planning, and clinical advocacy through hospitalizations and beyond.
This is the curriculum we built over twenty years for the families we serve — and now, finally, for families directly.
Portions of the communication curriculum are built on CareWorks — a training methodology developed in collaboration with three Cornell University faculty advisors to CompassCare. Originally used to train elite professional caregivers. Now adapted for families.
Our proprietary advance-care-planning tool. Goes beyond legal forms into the conversations families actually need to have — about quality of life, medical intervention, and what your loved one would want when they cannot tell you anymore.
The bootcamp is the curriculum CompassCare, LLC has refined over two decades of in-home care across thousands of families. The frameworks aren't theoretical. They've been at the bedside for twenty years.
The communication, leadership, and gerontology foundations of the bootcamp draw on decades of research and teaching from these three Cornell University scholars — long-standing advisors to CompassCare, LLC.
Dr. Pillemer is one of the world's leading scholars on human development across the life course, with particular focus on family relationships in middle age and beyond. He directs the Cornell Legacy Project and is the bestselling author of 30 Lessons for Living and Fault Lines.
Dr. Meador has spent her career designing, evaluating, and implementing programs that improve the lives of older adults. She is the author and co-author of numerous books, manuals, and articles, and a frequent speaker at professional workshops nationwide. She is a member of the American Society on Aging and the Gerontological Society of America.
Dr. Brownell is one of the world's leading authorities on listening and interpersonal communication. Her bestselling textbook on listening is in its 7th edition; her most recent book is The Listening Advantage. A past president of the International Listening Association, she was inducted into the Listening Hall of Fame and contributes the listening frameworks at the heart of the bootcamp's communication modules.
Drs. Pillemer, Meador, and Brownell serve as advisors to CompassCare, LLC, and have contributed to the CareWorks training methodology on which portions of this curriculum are built. Their advisory role does not constitute endorsement of the Family Caregiver Bootcamp by Cornell University.
CompassCare, LLC was founded by Cornell-trained leaders in geriatrics, gerontology, and business — and has cared for thousands of families across the Northeast for two decades. The bootcamp is the curriculum we have been refining since 2005, finally available to families directly.
A seasoned corporate executive and entrepreneur with extensive experience managing and developing service businesses. MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business; BSE in Finance & Accounting from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Co-Chief of the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology at Weill Cornell, Director of Cornell's Center for Aging Research and Clinical Care, and Director of Geriatrics for New York-Presbyterian Health System. Internationally recognized authority on elder care; author of more than 100 peer-reviewed articles on gerontology.
Over twenty-five years of financial and operational leadership experience. MBA from NYU's Leonard N. Stern School of Business; B.S. from Cornell University. Previously held senior finance roles at engineering and technology companies; Senior Consultant at Andersen Consulting earlier in his career.
Graduates of the Family Caregiver Bootcamp earn the Certified Family Caregiver (CFC) — a program credential signifying completion of a comprehensive, evidence-based curriculum and successful demonstration of competency across all thirteen modules.
The CFC is a program credential issued by CompassCare, LLC and Wisebird. It is not a state-regulated license or a substitute for professional credentialing in regulated settings.
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