Caregiving youth received a national platform on the TODAY Show with Maria Shriver, marking a crucial step towards greater recognition and support for these young people. The American Association of Caregiving Youth (AACY) and Kesem, a leading organization for children of cancer patients, teamed up for this appearance.
Sandwich Generation Caregivers find themselves squeezed in between caring for younger loved ones such as children, and their elder parents or other elder family members. While the Sandwich Generation is not a new form of family caregiving, there have been recent efforts to address the needs of these caregivers.
A new, first-of-its-kind National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers provides hundreds of actions that federal, state, and local governments, businesses, and communities can take to support caregivers.