Caring for a parent, spouse, or family member can be challenging and may mean you need support from others. It's important to know when to ask for help, to find ways to cope, and to make keeping yourself healthy a priority!
AACY works to increase awareness and provide support services for youth caregivers and their families by connecting them with health, education and community resources.
AgingWell Hub is part of the Georgetown Global Social Enterprise Initiative (GSEI). Our team focuses on harnessing the power and creative thinking generated by cross-sector partnerships to drive measurable and implementable innovation in products and services for older Americans. In 2017, The AgingWell Hub led the process of creating a comprehensive and integrated journey map - the Caregiver Journey Map - for those caring for loved ones with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Multiple players in today’s health care system — a pharmaceutical company, health care provider, health-related technology provider, university, leading national nonprofits and more — came together to share expert knowledge and proprietary research as well as to develop the map from the perspective of consumers. In this case, the consumer is the unpaid family caregiver of an older adult with Alzheimer’s disease.
Daughterhood.org’s mission is to support and build confidence in women who are managing their parents’ care. The daughterhood blog, website and social media links connect you — the care manager — to resources and a wholly unique perspective on our health and elder care systems. Through her writing and curation of resources, daughterhood’s founder, Anne Tumlinson, coaches women and men to insist on excellent care and a meaningful experience for their parents
Caregiving is an all-consuming responsibility, whether you’re providing hands-on personal care or managing care from a distance. Compassion fatigue can be a side effect of caring for someone in need.
As a family caregiver for a parent, child, spouse, or other loved one, you’re likely to face a host of new responsibilities, many of which are unfamiliar or intimidating.
