Caring for a family member or friend can be both challenging and rewarding. This section contains information for caregivers seeking support, grief recovery services, education, and advocacy.

From this page you can read detailed descriptions of types of Caregiver Resources.

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Caregiver Support

Caregivers are likely to experience enormous stress from their responsibilities. We must often learn through trial and error the best ways to help a loved one while at the same time, maintain our own lives.

Do you need to talk with other caregivers? Share tips and strategies? Ask for support during a difficult period? Here are some online resources that can help.

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Below is a list of caregiver support resources to help you understand some of the options which are available. However, ADRC does not endorse or recommend any of these sites, but provides these links for your information only.

Family Caregiver Alliance, founded in 1977, was the first community-based nonprofit organization in the U.S. to address the needs of families and friends providing long-term care at home. FCA serves as a public voice for caregivers, offering them assistance and championing their cause through education, services, research and advocacy.

Caregiver Action Network represents the more than 25 million family caregivers in this country. NFCA provides information and education, support and validation, public awareness and advocacy.

National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC) is a non-profit joint venture, created in 1996 to support family caregivers of the elderly and the professionals who serve them. There are three NAC partners – the American Society on Aging, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging.

Grief Recovery

Grief is normal and natural after the loss of a loved one. Grief can't be ignored, repressed, or dismissed without lasting consequences. But there are a range of programs, tools and resources to help you cope and live with your loss.

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Below is a list of grief support resources to help you understand some of the options which are available. ADRC does not endorse or recommend any of these sites, but provides these links for your information only.

The Hospice Foundation of America is a not-for-profit organization that assists those who cope either personally or professionally with terminal illness, death and grief. Each year HFA produces the National Bereavement teleconference.

The Grief Recovery Method offers certification, outreach and community education programs designed to help grievers deal with their loss and by offering practical tools to overcome loss and regain happiness.