10 Best Resources and Tools for Family Caregivers

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10 Best Resources and Tools for

Family Caregivers
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1. Eldercare Locator

Eldercare Locator is a public service of the U.S. Administration

on Aging

connecting you to services for older adults and their families.

http://eldercare.gov/Eldercare.NET/Public/Index.aspx
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Family Caregiver Alliance is a public voice for caregivers, illuminating the

daily challenges they face, offering them the assistance they so desperatelyneed and deserve, and championing their cause through education, services, research and advocacy.

http://www.caregiver.org2. Family Caregiver Alliance (FCA)
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CAN (formerly the National Family Caregivers Association) is a non-profit

organization providing education, peer support, and resources to familycaregivers across the country free of charge.

http://caregiveraction.org/3. Caregiver Action Network (CAN)
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The National Alliance for Caregiving is a non-profit coalition of national

organizations focusing on issues of family caregiving. Alliance membersinclude grassroots organizations, professional associations, service

organizations, disease-specific organizations, a government agency, and

corporations.

http://www.caregiving.org/4. National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC)
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The Veterans Administration offers this website for caregivers of veterans

of all ages, along with a toll-free Caregiver Support Line at 1-855-260-3274.

http://www.caregiver.va.gov/5. VA Caregiver Support
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The National Council on Aging (NCOA) is a nonprofit service and advocacy

organization that improves the lives of all older adults and communityorganizations that serve them.

http://www.ncoa.org/6. National Council on Aging (NCOA)
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AARP Caregiving Resource Center includes information about getting

started, providing care, housing options, legal issues, financial information,end of life care, and more.

http://www.aarp.org/content/aarp/en/home/relatio

nships/caregiving-resource-center.html7. AARP Caregiving Resource Center
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The American Society on Aging is an association of diverse individuals

bound by a common goal: to support the commitment and enhance theknowledge and skills of those who seek to improve the quality of

life of

older adults and their families.

http://www.asaging.org/8. American Society on Aging
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Caregiving.com features the blogs of family caregivers, weekly words of

comforts, weekly self-care plans, weekly chats, a Community CaregivingJournal, free webinars, and online support groups.

http://www.caregiving.com/9. Caregiving.com
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BenefitsCheckUp

is free service of the National Council on Aging (NCOA),

a nonprofit service and advocacy organization. It helps you find benefitprograms that can help pay for medications, health care, food, utilities andmore.

https://www.benefitscheckup.org/10. BenefitsCheckUp
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