CAREGIVER SUPPORT CENTER

Help for Caregivers

Lotsa Helping Hands
www.rci.lotsahelpinghands.com

Helping caregivers coordinate
The Rosalynn Carter Institute is proud to partner with Lotsa Helping Hands to provide volunteer coordination for friends, family, colleagues, and neighbors to assist loved ones in need. Lotsa Helping Hands is a simple, immediate way to coordinate assistance. It's an easy-to-use, private group calendar, specifically designed for organizing helpers, where everyone can pitch in with preparing meals, providing rides to appointments and activities, and other tasks necessary for life to run smoothly during a crisis.

http://www.strengthforcaring.com

A comprehensive online resource and virtual community designed specifically for caregivers. This in-depth web site is a repository of the best information and support developed by leading caregiving experts, professional societies, government agencies, and family caregivers themselves and is designed to help caregivers learn to reduce their own stress while providing all of the information they need to care for their loved ones and themselves.

Family Caregiver Alliance
http://www.caregiver.org/caregiver/jsp/home.jsp

FCA is a public voice for caregivers and has developed a wide array of services and publications based on caregiver needs and offers programs at local, state, and national levels.

The FCA's Family Care Navigator is an EXCELLENT TOOL for Family and Informal Caregivers as well as Professional Caregivers. This new tool provides state specific resources and suggestions for a variety of issues pertinent to challenges of caregiving.

http://caregiver.org/caregiver/jsp/fcn_content_node.jsp?nodeid=2083

Family Caregiving 101
http://www.familycaregiving101.org

If you're caring for a loved one who is ill or disabled, this site was created for you. It's a great place to find assistance, answers, new ideas and helpful advice for you and your loved one.

National Family Caregivers Association
http://www.nfcacares.org

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.

National Organization for Empowering Caregivers
http://www.care-givers.org

Provides assistance, education, support and referrals for informal family caregivers, as well as promotes public awareness about the realities of caregiving.

Today's Caregiver Magazine
http://www.caregiver.com

Caregiver Media Group is a leading provider of information, support and guidance for family and professional caregivers. This web site includes topic specific newsletters, online discussion lists, back issue articles of Today's Caregiver magazine, chat rooms and an online store.

Well Spouse Association
http://www.wellspouse.org

Well Spouse is a national, not for profit membership organization which gives support to wives, husbands, and partners of the chronically ill and/or disabled.