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"...The first time I took a caregiver quiz, I was at rock bottom. The toilet overflowed AGAIN. It was my dad (with Parkinson’s and dementia) AGAIN. He was smugly resting in the TV room chair as if nothing had happened AGAIN..."
I came here looking for a "Quick Online Quiz for Caregivers" but deep down I'm looking for help, support, advice, or ANYTHING that’d make me feel better.
Reading this analysis takes a few more minutes than taking an actual caregiver quiz, but I promise you’ll leave with so much more.
To help family caregivers who need more help than a 3-minute quizlet can offer, I took a dozen different online caregiver quizzes one-by-one, and I’m sharing what I learned with you today.
You’ll get a better perspective on what Caregiver Quizzes can help you achieve. Let's start with two tips then dive in!
How does taking the quiz help you as a caregiver? Do you get good advice or learn something helpful?
Not every caregiver quiz is designed for the same purpose. In the twelve quizzes I took, the questions surveyed fell into four categories. There were questions about…
Who’s giving the quiz? Do they have an ulterior motive? Are they trying to sell you something? Can you take the quiz without signing up for a marketing list?
The term “dark pattern” means when an app or website leads you to take an action that’s NOT in your best interest.
Several caregiver quizzes out there ask you to give your email address. When the participant is a caregiver in an emotionally vulnerable state, HOW they ask makes all the difference.
Take the quiz here - Best for learning a holistic range of contributors to caregiver stress.
The “Family Caregiver Stress Quiz” is exactly the type of personality quiz you’d want to take when you’re feeling an emotional low.
This one’s the quiz most people are looking for. It’s best-in-class for quizzes focused on the family caregiver’s emotional well being.
The interface is nice, with easy to click buttons, and you can go back to edit your answers if you change your mind.
It’s the longest survey I took (still takes less than 5 minutes), with a range of questions about your physical symptoms, lifestyle habits, and emotions experienced.
In the end, it gives you a stress score in the form of a number. Compared to all other quizzes, it takes a holistic approach to calculate your caregiver stress level.
When you finish the survey, they don’t give you the results unless you enter your email address, which stinks. I’m especially skeptical, since it’s a homecare business that’ll make money if I buy from them.
If you liked Firslight’s quiz, then Cathay L Van’s quiz is a similar one. She’s an ex-caregiver to her parents turned caregiver coach. She too requires your first name and email address before you can see your results, but it’s a little more worth it since she gives you personalized results about “Your Caregiver Style”.
Take the quiz here - Best for people who haven’t tried a new approach lately.
This one is designed for professional caregivers to assess whether their training and experience is better or worse than other professional caregivers.
Despite the professional target audience, it was eye-opening for me as a family caregiver to see the training and equipment available.
Until now, I’ve mostly looked for “outside help” or “emotional support”. I’d never considered the possibility of getting caregiver training for myself.
This realization, that I’m empowered to learn practical caregiving skills, is the most valuable thing I’ve gained from any of these surveys. It tells me, I have the power to improve my circumstances.
Plus, it doesn’t ask for your contact information at all. You go girl!
Take the quiz here - Best for new family caregivers who haven’t reached rock-bottom.
The “Are You Headed for Caregiver Burn-out?” by title is a more proactive approach to caregiver burnout. As the common saying goes “if you’re already burnt out, then its too late”.
In the same way early detection of cancer is one of the best ways to increase the patient’s chances of survival, so too is catching caregiver burnout.
The survey has a dozen or so questions, and a very easy to use interface with clickable boxes and images that make it a pleasure to run through.
In the end, they give you a visual numbered score with a number between “healthy and balanced” and “very burned out”, plus and quick bit of personalized advice for how to feel better.
Hint, they’ll probably tell you that you need a break from caregiving.
Take the quiz here - Best for learning facts about the United States of Caregiving.
The AARP’s “What Do You Know About Caregiving?” is like a knowledge quiz about nationwide facts and stats about family caregiving in the US.
It’s just 8 questions long, and takes under five minutes to complete (like all quizzes I took).
Since it’s an assessment and not a personality quiz, it’s nice they show you correct answers after each question.
Overall, the assessment is a snackable form of advocacy. By testing your knowledge of the services and aid programs available to family caregivers, you might learn about one you could benefit from.
They don’t ask for your email address at all! Hooray!
If you like the AARP quiz, then the St. Elizabeth Healthcare quiz is another you might like. Some questions are repeats from the AARP quiz, though. They give you the correct answers at the end without asking for your email too.
Take the quiz here - Best for people who don’t know what a caregiver is.
The purpose of this quiz is to determine whether or not you are a caregiver, in just 7 questions and less than a minute of your time since it’s all on one page.
I love how they make entering your contact information optional at the end.
Maybe you just want the quiz without perpetually getting emails. In California, the US’s progressive tech center with more GDPR-like laws than any other state, they get that.
The big reveal at the end is, “Since you answered YES to one or more of the questions, you may be a caregiver.” That’s an awesomely inclusive definition of caregiving!
I could see this survey particularly helpful to share with someone you know, who’s struggling with the stresses of caregiving yet doesn’t consider themselves a caregiver. Awareness is the first step.
I wish Michigan had more resources with a mindset like this.
Take the quiz here - Best when the caregiver you want to help can’t use the internet.
Like a mental health assessment test with similar questions as the Firstlight and Cathy L Van quizzes, but this ones an easy printable.
A printable PDF? That’s pretty nifty, if you know a caregiver without access to a computer, the internet, and a printer. You could print it out and give it to them.
Like doing Form 1040 tax return, you’re going to have to calculate everything by hand.
In the end, you’ll get a score as to the degree in which you need help.
One important thing about this one is, all the questions are about your activity and emotions in the past week.
Hypothetically if you took this same quiz week after week, or month after month, you’d be able to track your progress or regress.
The ups and downs of #caregiverlife, as it goes.
The people who put these together at poor quality.
