Family Caregivers

National Family Caregivers Association
http://www.thefamilycaregiver.org/
As Americans age, family care giving is becoming an important issue. The National Family Caregivers Association (NFCA) supports, empowers, educates, and speaks up for the more than 50 million Americans who care for a chronically ill, aged, or disabled loved one. NFCA reaches across the boundaries of different diagnoses, different relationships and different life stages to address the common needs and concerns of all family caregivers.

Caregiver Alliance
http://caregiver.org/caregiver/jsp/home.jsp
Founded in 1977, Family Caregiver Alliance was the first community-based nonprofit organization in the country to address the needs of families and friends providing long-term care at home. FCA now offers programs at national, state and local levels to support and sustain caregivers. The website offers information on care giving and advice, fact sheets, research information, public policy information, recent publications, discussion groups and much more.

Caregiver Strain Index
http://www.hartfordign.org/publications/trythis/issue14.pdf
This tool is available from the John A. Hartford Institute of Geriatric Nursing and Alzheimer's Association's "Try This" series.

GeroNurse Online-Family Caregiving
www.consultgerirn.org
Excellent resource on family caregiving using the nursing process as the framework. Select Family Caregiving from the topics menu.

Family Caregivers: Caring for Older Adults and Working with their families
http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/JournalArticle.asp?Article_ID=659747 (AJN, August 2006)

Roslyn Carter Institute for Caregiving
http://www.rosalynncarter.org/

Children of Aging Parents
http://www.caps4caregivers.org/

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