AZ CERTIFIED CAREGIVER EXAMINATION TEST QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 2025/2026
✔✔Administration on Aging - ✔✔access assistance services, counselling, and training
services, or respite care services
✔✔What percentage of caregivers report they have been providing care for 2-5 years -
✔✔40%
✔✔What percentage of caregivers report they have been providing care for 5 -10 years
- ✔✔29%
✔✔Caregiver Assessments - ✔✔Revised scale for caregiver self efficacy, caregiver
burden scale
✔✔Caregiver burden scale - ✔✔self assessment to assess the perceived burdon
among caregivers of family members with dementia
✔✔revised scale for caregiver self efficacy - ✔✔measures 3 domains of caregiving self
efficacy including obtaining respite, responding to disruptive patient behaviors and
controlling upsetting thoughts
✔✔OT interventions for caregivers - ✔✔adapt occupations, alter the environment, train
in adaptive equipment, problem solving techniques, coping strategies, caregiver well-
being, effective communication
✔✔Case management interventions - ✔✔used for respite services
✔✔group interventions - ✔✔support groups
✔✔synchronous internet-base support groups - ✔✔data link before communication
begins
✔✔asynchronous internet-based support groups - ✔✔individual bits of information
received
✔✔cognitive behavioral - ✔✔strong evidence supported this OT intervention
✔✔single component OT intervention - strong evidence supported include -
✔✔communication skills training, communication skills training with memory aids,
mindfulness training, stress management
✔✔single component OT intervention - moderate evidence supported include -
✔✔exercise program, nighttime monitoring system
, ✔✔single component OT intervention - limited evidence supported include -
✔✔assistive device training
✔✔single component OT intervention - insufficient evidence supported include -
✔✔adaptive device training, adaptive leisure program, coaching
✔✔Implications for practice - ✔✔interact with caregivers, provide information on respite
options, professionally led support groups, promote interactions between caregiver and
loved one with communication skills training, train and practice with assitance devices,
promote insurance reimbursement, delivery of telehealth show promise
✔✔Benefits of OT collaboration with the caregiver - ✔✔involving the caregiver/family is
core value, families play a vital role in ensuring the health and wellbeing of loved ones,
family involvement linked to successful rehabilitation, cooperation and coordination is
important for the holistic approach, including family related interventions reduces family
stress, illness, and institutionalization
✔✔Barriers of OT collaboration with the caregiver - ✔✔many OTs see
caregivers/families as barriers rather than partners and scheduling difficulties
✔✔Variables of OT collaboration with the caregiver - ✔✔setting, age of therapist
✔✔Family -centered care - ✔✔families well-being should be placed at highest priority,
policies are holistic and family centered, families view availability, accessibility, and
communication as most important while therapist viewed education, counseling, present
families with the opportunity to become more involved it they desire and respect if they
choose to lessen involvement
✔✔Significance of relationship with family - ✔✔older adults main source of enjoyment is
their family contact
✔✔problematic interactions - ✔✔families are unpredictable, judgemental, and abrasive.
Challenges include differing of opinions, elder abuse, and cognitive impairments in the
caregiver
✔✔differences in outlook - ✔✔family dynamics, OT needs to listen to the older adult and
be their advocate
✔✔Risk of Abuse - ✔✔stress of caregiving at times leads to abusive actions
✔✔Jimmo vs Sebelius - ✔✔claims were denied due to the rule of thumb improvement
standard
AND ANSWERS 2025/2026
✔✔Administration on Aging - ✔✔access assistance services, counselling, and training
services, or respite care services
✔✔What percentage of caregivers report they have been providing care for 2-5 years -
✔✔40%
✔✔What percentage of caregivers report they have been providing care for 5 -10 years
- ✔✔29%
✔✔Caregiver Assessments - ✔✔Revised scale for caregiver self efficacy, caregiver
burden scale
✔✔Caregiver burden scale - ✔✔self assessment to assess the perceived burdon
among caregivers of family members with dementia
✔✔revised scale for caregiver self efficacy - ✔✔measures 3 domains of caregiving self
efficacy including obtaining respite, responding to disruptive patient behaviors and
controlling upsetting thoughts
✔✔OT interventions for caregivers - ✔✔adapt occupations, alter the environment, train
in adaptive equipment, problem solving techniques, coping strategies, caregiver well-
being, effective communication
✔✔Case management interventions - ✔✔used for respite services
✔✔group interventions - ✔✔support groups
✔✔synchronous internet-base support groups - ✔✔data link before communication
begins
✔✔asynchronous internet-based support groups - ✔✔individual bits of information
received
✔✔cognitive behavioral - ✔✔strong evidence supported this OT intervention
✔✔single component OT intervention - strong evidence supported include -
✔✔communication skills training, communication skills training with memory aids,
mindfulness training, stress management
✔✔single component OT intervention - moderate evidence supported include -
✔✔exercise program, nighttime monitoring system
, ✔✔single component OT intervention - limited evidence supported include -
✔✔assistive device training
✔✔single component OT intervention - insufficient evidence supported include -
✔✔adaptive device training, adaptive leisure program, coaching
✔✔Implications for practice - ✔✔interact with caregivers, provide information on respite
options, professionally led support groups, promote interactions between caregiver and
loved one with communication skills training, train and practice with assitance devices,
promote insurance reimbursement, delivery of telehealth show promise
✔✔Benefits of OT collaboration with the caregiver - ✔✔involving the caregiver/family is
core value, families play a vital role in ensuring the health and wellbeing of loved ones,
family involvement linked to successful rehabilitation, cooperation and coordination is
important for the holistic approach, including family related interventions reduces family
stress, illness, and institutionalization
✔✔Barriers of OT collaboration with the caregiver - ✔✔many OTs see
caregivers/families as barriers rather than partners and scheduling difficulties
✔✔Variables of OT collaboration with the caregiver - ✔✔setting, age of therapist
✔✔Family -centered care - ✔✔families well-being should be placed at highest priority,
policies are holistic and family centered, families view availability, accessibility, and
communication as most important while therapist viewed education, counseling, present
families with the opportunity to become more involved it they desire and respect if they
choose to lessen involvement
✔✔Significance of relationship with family - ✔✔older adults main source of enjoyment is
their family contact
✔✔problematic interactions - ✔✔families are unpredictable, judgemental, and abrasive.
Challenges include differing of opinions, elder abuse, and cognitive impairments in the
caregiver
✔✔differences in outlook - ✔✔family dynamics, OT needs to listen to the older adult and
be their advocate
✔✔Risk of Abuse - ✔✔stress of caregiving at times leads to abusive actions
✔✔Jimmo vs Sebelius - ✔✔claims were denied due to the rule of thumb improvement
standard
