National Alliance for Caregiving
The National Alliance for Caregiving provides support to family caregivers and the professionals who help them and works to increase public awareness of issues facing family caregivers.
Caregivers Toolkit
The purpose of the toolkit is sharpen awareness of caregivers as an at-risk population, whose own needs should be determined by an assessment; and to helping develop and implement an appropriate caregiver assessment process.
Family Caregiver Support: State Facts at a Glance
The National Association of State Units on Aging (NASUA) in collaboration with the National Conference of State Legislatures and funded by the U.S. Administration on Aging, released the "Family Caregiver Support: State Facts at a Glance." The report provides information by state about family caregivers, the state-level programs that serve them, and legislation introduced and enacted. The report may be found on the National Conference of State Legislators (NCSL) website at www.ncsl.org/programs/health/forum/caregiversupport.htm.
Interrelatedness of Care-Receiver and Caregiver Tasks (PDF)
Resource for caregiving at life's end from the Hospice Institute of the Florida Suncoast. The document addresses the care-receiver and caregiver tasks for completion and closure.
The Caregivers Handbook (PDF)
This handbook, developed to accompany a PBS broadcast of Caring for Your Parents, helps caregivers in locating eldercare information and services, finding national and local caregiving organizations, and choosing appropriate caregiving services and resources.
End of Life booklets for Caregivers
For those of you involved in supporting caregivers dealing with end of life issues, the University of Hawaii, under an AoA National Family Caregiver Support Program Innovation Grant, produced a series of five booklets for caregivers.
Family Caregiver Alliance Online Caregiving Workshops
The workshops offer caregivers the unique opportunity to learn practical care skills from expert instructors without leaving the convenience of their home or office. Each title in the archive is available free and includes an audio file and companion written materials.
Current workshop titles:
- Caring Together! Sharing Caregiving Responsibilities with Siblings and other Family Members
- How Do You Know If You Have a Memory Problem?
- Here but Not Here-Finding Hope When Your Loved One Has Memory Loss
- Keeping Away the Caregiver Blues
- Medications: Safe and Less Expensive Drug Therapy-A Caregiver's Role
- There Must Be A Better Way Than This! Communicating with Someone with Dementia
- Understanding and Treating Difficult Dementia Behaviors
- Understanding Stroke and Vascular Dementia
Full Circle of Care
The Full Circle of Care website provides information to address the practical realities of caregiving. The site provides local resource links for the entire state of
