Caring for a parent, spouse, or family member can be challenging and may mean you need support from others. It's important to know when to ask for help, to find ways to cope, and to make keeping yourself healthy a priority!
Sandwich Generation Caregivers find themselves squeezed in between caring for younger loved ones such as children, and their elder parents or other elder family members. While the Sandwich Generation is not a new form of family caregiving, there have been recent efforts to address the needs of these caregivers.
A new, first-of-its-kind National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers provides hundreds of actions that federal, state, and local governments, businesses, and communities can take to support caregivers.
The "Typical" LGBTQ Caregiver fact sheet from National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC) and AARP provides information about LGBTQ caregivers and their needs for information, resources, and services.
While many issues are the same for all caregivers, some unique considerations arise for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people dealing with aging.
