Repost from Health.yahoo.com Caregiver Action Network has been recognized by Everyday Health as one of the “7 Best Alzheimer's and Dementia Caregiver Resources,” highlighting its longstanding leadership in connecting family caregivers with trusted information, practical guidance, and meaningful support. Article excerpt Caring for a person with dementia or Alzheimer's disease [...]

By Jeff Aidikoff, Founder and Managing Attorney, Bedsore.Law Most guides on the "sandwich generation" list statistics and checklists. We wanted to know what it actually feels like to live it, juggling an aging parent's care with kids still at home and a full-time job. So we created "Angela," a composite drawn from conversations we've [...]

What an August weekend of flowers and conversation revealed about the support family caregivers need. After a day at Elle Pea Acres, one participant wrote that they could finally recognize themselves as a caregiver. They had hesitated to use the word, worried that other people had it harder. Spending time with fellow caregivers [...]

Our starting point is simple: you can automate some of the tasks of caregiving, but you cannot automate caregiving itself as a deeply human experience. Family caregivers are already using AI to find information, organize care, prepare for appointments, navigate complicated systems, and make everyday caregiving tasks a little easier. CAN’s 2026 Caregiver Tech [...]

By: Marvell Adams Jr. (Caregiver Action Network’s CEO) and Ai-jen Poo (Caring Across Generations’ Founder and Executive Director) SPOILERS AHEAD The very title of Hulu’s hit summer series, Furious, suggests the kind of raw emotion viewers can expect.  But the title is just a hint of the thorny emotional territory the series covers [...]

By: Nichole Goble, Director of Community Initiatives, Caregiver Action Network SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Peter Parker has always been a caregiver. Sure, he’s a superhero. It sounds considerably cooler and probably looks better on the merchandise. But beneath the mask, the web-slinging, and the very [...]

By: Jodi Koehn-Pike, Content Development Manager, and Chance Browning, COO, Caregiver Action Network Few people have shaped American culture quite like Dolly Parton.  The singer, songwriter, actress, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, who died August 25 at age 80, leaves a legacy that extends far beyond songs like “Jolene,” “9 to 5” and “I Will Always Love You.” [...]

There are things family caregivers think but almost never say out loud, not to their siblings, not to their friends, sometimes not even to their spouse. A member of the Caregiver Action Network Community Facebook Group said one of them. They posted anonymously. We'll call them Drew. Their post opened with a sentence that [...]

CAUTION: SERIES SPOILERS AHEAD "Fire and blood" may be the words of House Targaryen, but House of the Dragon has always been just as much about love, loss, and the quiet acts of care that shape history – fictional or not. As HBO's critically acclaimed fantasy drama recently concluded its third season, viewers watched [...]

By Chance Browning COO, Caregiver Action Network As CATS: The Jellicle Ball enters the final week of its celebrated Broadway run, audiences have one last opportunity to experience one of the most daring theatrical reinventions in recent memory. Even better for fans, the production has announced that an original cast recording is finally on [...]