By: Allison Borthwick (Caregiver Action Network’s Director of Communications and Digital Media) From grieving parents and lifelong friends to navigating infertility and caring for a partner through mental health challenges, Sara Bareilles’ album and documentary offer a moving reflection on caregiver grief. There is a particular comfort in growing up alongside an [...]

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 [...]

By Nichole Goble Director of Community Initiatives, Caregiver Action Network SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for Season 1 of The Boroughs on Netflix. There is something deeply funny — and honestly a little rude — about the Duffer Brothers finishing Stranger Things and apparently deciding, “What if we did the same thing, [...]

When we think about grief, we often picture the loss of someone we deeply loved—a parent, spouse, sibling, grandparent, or friend whose absence leaves a hole in our lives. But what happens when the person who dies is someone you didn't particularly like? What happens when the relationship was complicated, painful, disappointing, or even [...]

By Marvell Adams Jr. Chief Executive Officer As a lifelong Star Wars fan, I went into The Mandalorian and Grogu expecting adventure, action, and perhaps a little nostalgia. After all, Star Wars was first introduced to me by my older brothers more than 40 years ago. It has been a constant companion through different [...]