1.	Conduct more studies using prospective longitudinal designs with larger sample sizes.
2.	Increase use of theoretical and/or conceptual models in study question and hypothesis development.
3.	Achieve consensus and develop a repository of the most important heart failure caregiver constructs and instruments.
4.	Include objective measures, in addition to self-report measures, to broaden the evidence-base of the impact of caregiving on caregiver health and functioning (e.g., objective measures of stress, health behaviors, biomarkers).
5.	Perform population-based prevalence studies or surveillance practices to ascertain the number, characteristics and responsibilities undertaken by heart failure family caregivers.
6.	Develop studies that screen and enroll high-risk heart failure caregivers who are particularly distressed or evidence other unmet needs.
7.	Increase focus on understudied family caregiver populations, including carers who are younger, older, male, minorities, working full-time, and non-spouses and multiple caregiver situations.