Who are Caregivers?

Caregivers come in all shapes and sizes - Friends helping friends who are aging or disabled. Spouses providing care as their partner moves from capable to needing assistance with routine activities. Kids helping their parents or siblings. Caregiving is the task of providing for the phsyical and emotional needs of an individual who can no longer perform daily tasks independenly.

Do you help with rides to the doctor, shopping, meals, bill paying, bathing, grooming, dressing, walking or transferring to a wheelchair, housekeeping, managing medications, or arranging services to be provided by others? If you provide services like these, whether or not you live with the person you are helping, you are a caregiver.

Whatever your role in caregiving, you are among the thousands of dedicated and concerned individuals who carry our loved ones forward in their lives and help them maintain as much quality of life as possible. And it is not an easy job.

This blog is presented by The Caregiver Foundation a non-profit organization that supports Caergivers with educational resources, counseling, bill paying services, home restoration services and support groups.

I am encouraging you to submit your questions, stories, comments - anything that you need help with or have that you think would help other caregivers. And pass this blog along to everyone you know involved with caregiving!

Thanks for caring,

Gary