Caregiver Support

• Care for Life - Offers older adults, family caregivers and physicians a single source for providing information and referrals and locating and arranging services and supports for seniors in the Capital Region in New York.
• Care on Call (UK) Ltd - Residential care agency based in Swindon, Wiltshire, UK. Includes a list of services and a company profile.
• Care Resources - A one step provider of geriatric care services in the United States.
• Caregiver Consortium - Includes articles, a glossary, tips, and events for family caregivers and professionals in the Tucson and Pima County area of Arizona, USA.
• Caregiver Network - This resource centre was created to help caregivers deal with the stress of being in the position of having to deal with the elderly and ill.
• The Caregiver Resource Center - A step by step guide to understanding the aging process and needs of both elders and their care-givers. Services include information, education, consultation, counseling, and support for elders and care-givers.
• Caregiver.com - Features the online version of Today's Caregiver magazine, including some current articles and archives. Also contains informational resources, discussion groups, and a newsletter.
• Caregivers Discussion - Discussion board for caregivers dealing with chronic, aged and terminal illnesses.
• The Caregiver's Handbook - An online guide assisting both the caregiver and the elderly care receiver.
• Caregivers in the San Fernando Valley - Caregiving service in the Los Angeles - San Fernando Valley area.
• Caregiving.com - Offers access to support, information, and resources for caring for an aged relative.
• A Carer's Experience of Medical Neglect - This site describes my experiences of medical neglect of my elderly mother,troubles caused to me as a carer and lack of communication by the medical fraternity.
• Caring Angels Home Care - Caring Angels serves parts of Wisconsin by helping our clients maintain their independence and self-worth through non-medical support service.
• Caring Connection - Geriatric care managers helping families deal with the problems associated with caring for an older loved one in the Chicago area.
• Caring Workplace - Provides employers with a way to assist their employees care for senior relatives.
• Children of Aging Parents - Nonprofit organization that assists caregivers in the United States. Includes membership and donation information, caregiver stories, and a list of affiliated support groups.
• Coalition of Agencies Serving the Elderly - CASE provides resource information for caregivers, seniors and professionals working with the elderly in San Francisco, California, and the Bay Area.
• Comfort Keepers - Provides individual in-home non-medical senior care, companionship and recreation.
• Compassionate Companions Inc. - Elderly care services in Central and South Florida. Includes a list of services and contact information.
• CruiseRespite - The primary educational focus is to provide skills training for family caregivers. Caregiver support seminars are conducted in a meeting room aboard a luxury cruise ship.
• Daytona Senior Services - The Council on Aging of Volusia County is a non-profit organization servicing the greater Daytona Beach area with various elder care services.
• Dementia: A Guide For The Caregiver - A guide and resource for caregivers of dementia. Written from a personal perspective.
• Direct Care Alliance - A coalition of long-term care consumers, providers, and workers, who seek to improve the quality of long-term care through a focus on improving the quality of jobs for frontline caregivers.
• DISC - Offers advice and information to carers of older people who have dementia.
• Dutiful Daughters - Support group for female caregivers that care for elderly family members, also associated with Sainted Sons for male caregivers. Meeting and seminar schedules are available online.
• The Eden Alternative, Region 16 - A "philosophy of care" for seniors. A tool for improving quality of life for the elderly to eliminate boredome and loneliness.
• Elder Care Advisors - Elder care services, advice, training and publication for care givers and children of elderly parents
• Elder Care Link - A free referral service that helps caregivers and families find the right eldercare options in their area.
• Elder Suicide - Information and resources on elder suicide.
• Elderberry Institute - Assists in establishing and maintaining local living at home/block nurse programs for elders in the United States. Includes a list of programs and information about helping.
• Eldercare at Home - From the Foundation for Health in Aging. A twenty eight chapter online resource for families and friends who are caring for older people at home.
• ElderCare Connection - Operates in Florida's Broward and Palm Beach Counties and features professional guardianships, geriatric care management, healthcare surrogate services and special legal and financial services for the elderly.
• Eldercare Consultants of Memphis - Helping services for the elderly or homebound family member who needs special care.
• Eldercare Consultants, PLLP - Provides nursing services, planning, referral, and service procurement for the geriatric community. Includes a list of services and contact information. Minnesota, USA.
• Eldercare Locator - Local information, referral resources, and contact information for state and local agencies, from the United States' Health and Human Services Department.
• ElderCare Online - Offers information, resources, education and support on Alzheimer's care, home care, independent living, insurance coverage, legal and financial matters, and wellness.
• Eldercare online community center - Interactive community with chat message boards and individual mentors for caregivers with emphasis on Alzheimers care.
• The ElderCare Resource Center - Alzheimer's disease education, information, training, and referrals as well as specially selected products designed to improve the quality of life for patients and their caregiver(s).
• ElderCare Solutions, Inc - Consulting, referrals and locator services for persons seeking the best care solutions for an elder parent or spouse in the Chicago area.
• The Eldercare Team - Practical information, resources, solutions and support for those providing care to aging relatives in the Dallas, TX area.
• Empowering Caregivers - Resources, chat room, messagesboards and newsletter devoted to carers of the elderly.
• Faith in Action - Information from a national organization which offers grants to local groups of volunteers representing many faiths, who work together to care for their neighbors who are chronically ill, frail, elderly or disabled.
• Family Assistance Network - Provides personalized care management to the frail elderly, their family and caregivers. This site provides advice from various professionals, and feedback from residents of nursing homes and assisted living.
• Family Care America - An online resource for caregivers. Information on home care, financial planning, aging, assisted living, seniors, retirement, diseases, cancer, Alzheimer's, stroke, medications, estate planning, support.
• Family Caregiver Alliance - A clearinghouse on brain disorders, caregiver assistance and long-term care public policy.
• The Family Caregiver Web - News, information, resources, and tips to help family caregivers help a loved one who is disabled, chronically ill, or aging. A positive, light, occasionally humorous look at caregiving.
• Florida Geriatric Care Managers Association - Directory of and information for geriatric care managers in Florida.
• Full Circle of Care - A comprehensive resource for caregivers of older adults to help them make informed decisions and access personalized assistance and respite.
• Gardens Professional Care Management, Inc. - Serving Palm Beach and Martin County Florida. Dedicated to senior health - a link to families out of the area. Specializing in dementia care and crisis intervention.
• Geriatric Home Care Specialists - Your personalized care management company, making your life at home more independent. Custodial services in your private home provided on an hourly, overnight and live-in basis.
• GetCare Long-Term Care Assessment - Listing long-term and elder care options. Searchable database for services by area.
• Healing Arts Communications - Presents the "Home Care Companion" video series. Instruction for the individual who cares for a loved one at home.
• The Healthy Caregiver Magazine - An elder care resource magazine for family and professional caregivers.
• Help4Caregivers.org - Provides information, resources and referral to people caring for loved ones who are aging or who have a debilitating/terminal disease.
• HelpingCaregivers.com - Offers online resources for family caregivers. Also offers support for caregivers in the South Plains region of Texas, USA.
• Home Instead Senior Care - Provides non-medical care, assistance and companionship to the elderly.
• I Care For You - Personal experience of informal caregiving of parents. Includes experiences with Alzheimer's and stroke. Included are several links about the health and needs of the elderly and their caregivers.
• Illinois Association of Community Care Program Home Care Providers - Care services association for elderly home care providers.
• Informal Care Giver Information Centre - Canadian site with information and resources on how to enhance the health and happiness of caregivers and their families.
• The Information Center, Inc. - Provides information and assistance in accessing public resources and community services. Includes a discussion board, a list of services, and success stories.
• International Council on Active Aging - Information, education, resources to promote wellness in aging.
• Interventions Inc. - Elder care management services in New York City and Westchester County, New York as well as Connecticut.
• Long Term Care Link - Provides a wide variety of information and referrals to assist, educate and support those responsible for arranging long-term care.
• Nancy Wexler, MA, MFCC - Presents articles on caregiving for the elderly, and offers care services in the Los Angeles, California, USA area.
• National Family Caregivers Association (NFCA) - Caregiving advocacy organization with tips and statistics on caregiving in America.
• National Organization For Empowering Caregivers (NOFEC) - Charitable organization providing caregivers with assistance, education, support, and referrals. Includes resources, an event list, and membership information.
• Neighborly Senior Services - A nonprofit organization providing meals and other life-sustaining services to the frail, homebound, seniors and their families for 35 years in Pinellas County, Florida.
• Parents to Our Parents - An e-Book on surviving the Sandwich years while caring for your aging parents.
• Pathfinder Senior Care Consulting - Provides advocacy, support, and resource recommendations to Twin Cities seniors and their caregivers.
• Resources For Aging, Inc. - Publisher of "The Caregiver Sourcebook", a reliable, jargon-free guide that educates the caregiver on issues of caregiving, elder care, elder law, Medicare, Medicaid, and other senior issues.
• Resources for caregivers - Products and information for Australian caregivers and seniors.
• Respectful Care Management, Inc. - Geriatric care management services by a licensed RN in Southeast Florida, USA.
• Salt Lake County Aging Services - Provides programs and services for the residents of Salt Lake County, Utah who are age 60 and over and their caregivers.
• Senior Care Dallas - In home care services to senior citizens living in the Dallas, Texas, USA area.
• Senior Care Solutions - Senior and elder care consultants, certified geriatric care managers.
• Senior Citizen Consultants - We are MI based nurses who have years of geriatric and rehabilitation experience in assessing health care needs, developing plans, and accessing community resources to maximize goals of independence.
• Senior Resource Care Services - Free senior referrals in Western Washington for assisted living, senior housing, nursing homes, adult family homes, alzheimer and home care.
• Senior Solutions - Provides care for aging loved ones in Allentown, Easton, Reading and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and surrounding communities.
• Senior Solutions, Inc. - Consultants providing seniors with health, financial and legal services, including helping them remain in their own homes. Located in Livermore, California, USA.
• Senior Solutions of Pinellas County, Florida - Geriatric care management service offering consulting on home health, assisted living, nursing homes, medical issues, and legal questions.
• Seniorlink - Provides eldercare solutions in the United States. Includes a list of services and a company overview.
• Seniormag: Caregiver's Handbook - Information covering health and lifestyles for seniors and caregivers, including a compendium of resources.
• Seniors Action Service - Home aid service and eldercare education in the Chicago, Illinois, USA area. Contains descriptions of the service, a class schedule, and a company profile.
• Sentry Telecare - Offers an automated telephone check-in service. Describes the service and includes price information.
• St. Andrew's Resources for Seniors (STARS) - A faith-based, not-for-profit organization dedicated to serving seniors in the St. Louis, Missouri area by helping with senior housing and community services.
• StopPain.org - Provides information for family caregivers and professionals on subjects such as pain management, navigating the healthcare system, and self-care. From Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, USA.
• Stride Magazine - Quarterly publication offering information for caregivers. Current issue requires registration. Free archive.
• Suite 101: Caregiver Support - Contains articles and a discussion board.
• Transitions Elder Care Consulting - On-line guide to elder caregiving, opinion column written by an older adult, caregiver's support forum, assessment tools, tips about working with older adults.
• With a Little Help - Provides home services for seniors, aging parents, and people with special needs, including respite care, companionship, housework help, and transportation. Washington state, USA.

• Abledata - Funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation through the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, they have a database of over 30,000 products to assist the disabled. They also have a complete compliment of additional services, including help in buying and selling used equipment.
• Arizona Care Management - Provides details of staff and services.
• Care for the Carers - Supports people in East Sussex (UK) who look after sick or disabled relatives, friends, neighbours, partners, or children in their own homes.
• The Care Network - The Care Network offers information and support to make life easier for carers and the person they care for. It also gives opportunities to meet other Carers, share experiences and work together.
• Caregiver Network - Based in Toronto, Canada. Resource centre created to help caregivers deal with stress while dealing with the elderly and ill.
• Carers Liaison Project - Offers assistance to those involved in care work with support, help, and carers allowance information. Based in West Sussex, UK.
• Carers National Association - Providing information, support and campaigning for carers in the UK.
• Carers Support Services - Information, links, advice and online support. With discussion board, news, chat rooms, contacts, and polls.
• Caring Road - Support network links caregivers with others.
• Coaching Caregivers LLC - Caregivers find solutions to caregiving problems and a desire to begin or resume personal and professional goals.
• Cossey Carers Support Group - A voluntary support group for unpaid carers who look after for family or a friend. Located in Norwich and Norfolk, UK.
• Empowering caregivers - Interactive community with attention to emotional and spiritual support to empower the role of caregiving.
• FGA - Provides consulting services, claims processing services, training services, and outsourcing services to home healthcare providers.
• Healing Palms of Kauai - Offers caregiver support, programs, and gift packages. Holds caregiver retreat and vacation packages are held on this Hawaiian island.
• Home Health Assembly of New Jersey - Organization which offers information, assistance and advocacy for home health care providers, patients and their families.
• Jontek - Supplier of systems to support home care providers and those responsible for supplying round the clock monitoring of clients in their own homes.
• Karer's Korner - Unmoderated chat rooms specifically designed for carers of ill and disabled people. Take some time out to come and chat with someone who understands you.
• Maldon Carers Centre - Support and respite for informal carers throughout the Primary Care Trust Maldon and South Chelmsford area.
• New York State Association of Health Care Providers - A statewide trade organization representing home care and community-based providers through advocacy, information and education. Membership, providers, publications, and contacts.
• Part of Life: Helping Home Carers - Sets up a private web site that acts as a communications focal point for families and friends of the long term and terminally ill.
• Redbridge Carers Support Service - Carers support service providing information, support and recognition. Located in Redbridge, UK.
• Rotherham Crossroads - Promotes individual care packages for in-home carers and people with care needs.
• Texas Association for Home Care - Nonprofit organization aimed at improving acute, sub-acute, rehabilitative, and long-term care. Information on membership, upcoming events, directories, regulations, publications, and contacts.
• Well Spouse Foundation - Support community for people caring for their ill spouses, whether due to illnesses of aging, accident, or disease.
• West Texas Cares - Caring for caregivers through education and support.

Alzheimer's

• Alzheimer's at Home - Caregivers Sharing Solutions - Offering support and solutions for Alzheimer's Caregivers and professionals. Includes a message board.
• Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Online - In Florida.
• Alzheimer's Disease Caregiver's Questionnaire (ADCQ) - Find an online observer-rating instrument to determine the likelihood of dementia suggestive of Alzheimer's disease. FAQs for caregivers and health care professionals.
• Alzheimer's Disease Community - Message boards and chat dedicated to sharing information, offering support, and coping strategies to deal with Alzheimer's Disease. Particularly useful for caregivers.
• Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC) - Alzheimer's Disease resources, information and support group, from University of Washington, St. Louis
• Alzheimer's Disease Videos - Videos for caregiving for Alzheimer's disease, including calming, relaxing videos of nature that persons with Alzheimer's can enjoy.
• Alzheimer's Outreach - Provides personal accounts, and resources for families and carers.
• Caregiver Support - Information on techniques for caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease. FAQs from caregivers. Assessment and treatment of caregivers.
• Caregiving 4 Alz - A Caregiver's guide to Alzheimer's and Dementia.
• Caring To Help Others - A training manual preparing volunteer to assist caregivers of older adults.
• Finding the Humanity and Love in Alzheimer's Care - This site provides information and articles for families facing the ethical, emotional and physical care issues of Alzheimer's Disease.
• Four Key Principles of Geriatric Care - Information on AD by Robert S. Stall, M.D.
• The Gathering Place - Nightly support chat for caregivers of those dealing with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia.
• Helpguide.org - Provides information and non-commercial resources for caring for elders with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
• JournalKeepers.com - Journal keeping products and resources for caregivers, Alzheimer's patients and children.
• KnowItAlz Group - The author Kathy, cares for my 79 year old Dad who has Alzheimer's disease and lives with her in North Carolina. She writes a daily weblog that shows the lighter side of caring for someone with dementia. Also news and further resources.
• LightBridge Healthcare Research, Inc. - A provider of learning resources and educational guides based on cutting edge Alzheimer’s disease research, custom designed for the at-home caregiver.
• The Long Journey - A source of information for those who care for someone with Alzheimer's. This site also offers a chat room. One family shares the Alzheimer's experience and offers support to others dealing with Alzheimer's.
• Note to Self - A poetic and practical memoir adding positive value to those touched by Alzheimer's Disease. Included in this site are useful links, tips, tools, recommendations and crucial advice to support your unique journey as a caregiver.
• Putting Care on the Map - A research project about caregiving and Alzheimer’s disease across Canada run by Maura McIntryre and Ardra Cole from Ontario Institute for Studies In Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). Includes a project details and a history, and how to participate.
• TIME SLIPS - A site detailing stories told by patients with Alzheimer's disease; part of an artistic, multi-city, inter-generational endeavor.