Community Care Corps Helps Caregiving Organizations with New Resources
Submitted by Jodi on Mon, 04/22/2024 - 08:32FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 22, 2024
Community Care Corps Helps Caregiving Organizations with New Resources: As the older adult population grows, so does the need for support services
Caregiving in Context: Feud--Capote vs. the Swans
Submitted by Jodi on Thu, 04/11/2024 - 11:21
By: Chance Browning, Director of Partnerships
Mi experiencia como hermana y cuidadora de gemelas que viven con una enfermedad del neurodesarrollo
Submitted by Jodi on Thu, 04/04/2024 - 16:29
--Paulina Polanco
My Sibling Experience as a Caregiver of Twin Sisters Living with a Neurodevelopmental Disease
Submitted by Jodi on Thu, 03/28/2024 - 08:54
By Paulina Polanco
CAN’s New Partnership to Further Engage Providers and Clinicians
Submitted by Jodi on Wed, 03/20/2024 - 12:15Caregiver Action Network is proud to announce a dynamic new partnership with Psych Congress. This partnership will not only bring family caregivers’ voices to the table and elevate them to providers and clinicians, but will help to fulfill CAN’s mission of promoting resourcefulness and respect for the more than 90 million family caregivers across the country.
CAN Comment on the President's Executive Order for Increased Women's Health Research
Submitted by Jodi on Tue, 03/19/2024 - 14:27CAN would like to commend President Biden for his Executive Order to promote federal funding for women’s health research—with a focus on diseases and conditions that disproportionately affect women. One of the areas for increased research is women’s health after menopause and the diseases that are more prevalent in women in mid-life such as heart disease and osteoporosis.
New York Times Letter to the Editor: It Was "Poisoning," Not an "Overdose"
Submitted by Jodi on Mon, 03/18/2024 - 15:37
Sandra Bagwell of Mission, Texas, holding the remains of her son, Ryan, who died in 2022. “Ryan was poisoned,” she said. Credit...Verónica Gabriela Cárdenas for The New York Times
Medicare Can Better Help Patients and Families Battling Alzheimer’s This Year. The Time is Now.
Submitted by Jodi on Fri, 02/16/2024 - 10:34
By Ellen Steger
No matter how much you may read about Alzheimer’s disease, it’s nearly impossible to understand just how devastating an illness it is, until it leaves its mark on your family.
CAN Statement on the Bill to Lower Costs for Family Caregivers
Submitted by bjones on Fri, 12/01/2023 - 10:06Washington, DC (November 15, 2023) — Caregiver Action Network (CAN) is proud to stand by family caregivers and endorse the Lowering Costs for Caregivers Act. This act would allow individuals to use their tax-free health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts on medical expenses for their spouses and dependents as well as for their parents. As of now, American caregivers are struggling to pay costs for their loved ones’ needs out-of-pocket.