CAREGIVING RESOURCE LIST ●
The Eldercare Locator website can quickly and easily help you find local resources.
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You can contact the Area Agency on Aging in your county or city for information on social service programs near you.
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Reach out to a local geriatric social worker for information about what is available to you. For more information, check out this detailed article on how to get a social worker.
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The Conversation Project’s website contains many free online guides and workbooks to help you figure out how to make difficult decisions and have hard conversations about aging, including a guide to starting healthcare conversations, a guide to choosing a healthcare proxy, a guide to being a healthcare proxy, a guide to preparing for medical appointments, and other useful resources.
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Check out The Caring Generation library for a collection of articles written for caregivers on a variety of topics, sorted into different categories.
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Check out The National Institute on Aging’s incredible guidebook to caregiving and aging called The Caregiver’s Handbook, which can be found online for free at this link: https://order.nia.nih.gov/publication/caregivers-handbook.
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The National Institute on Aging has published many useful resources for older adults and caregivers, including a compilation of worksheets that help caregivers organize care, a guide to getting started with caregiving, and a guide to sharing caregiving responsibilities. For more publications by the National Institute on Aging, check out this link: https://order.nia.nih.gov/.
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The National Council on Aging also has many useful articles, including a step-by-step guide to finding a good caregiver, a respite care guide to help caregivers, and a resource guide for older adults who are currently living alone
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AARP is another place to find caregiving resources and information, including a tip sheet to getting started as a caregiver, a legal checklist for caregivers, a long-term care guide, and an explanation of the possible ways to be paid for being a family caregiver. You can find more AARP articles here: https://www.aarp.org/caregiving/
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The youtube channel Caregiving has recorded many videos intended to help caregivers, from tips to organize caregiving tasks to advice to reduce the financial stress of caregiving.
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PBS just aired a documentary about caregivers, which you can, at the time of this video, find for free on the PBS website and on youtube. The documentary is called “America’s Caregiving Crisis,” and was produced by Bradley Cooper.