This website is the centerpiece of the “Family Caregiving: It’s not all up to you” outreach campaign from The National Family Caregivers Association (NFCA) and the National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC). They created this site in 2004 to recognize, support and advise the more than 50 million family caregivers in this country provide care for a chronically ill or aging family member or friend. The site is designed to provide caregivers with the basic tools, skills and information they n
Kenneth Matos and Ellen Galinsky, Families and Work Institute, report, “Overall, 41% of employers provide employees with information about elder care services or Elder Care Resource and Referral, and 42% offer Dependent Care Assistance Plans (DCAPs) for elder care.” This report, National Study of Employers (NSE), from the Families and Work Institute and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), is perhaps the most comprehensive and far-reaching study of the practices, policie