Helpful Websites and Blogs
I will begin to organize these by category but for now you will find a preponderance of info on caregiving with a smattering of some other subject. By jumping off to some of these sites you will find an even greater source of links and information. There is a lot out there!
- National Alliance for Caregiving
- Dying: A book of comfort : great site with lots of resources and useful links.
- National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers (NAPGCM)
- National Caregiver’s Association
- National Family Caregivers Association
- Aging, end-of-life, and caregiver resources (Nancy Yanes-Hoffman)
- Caregiver page, American Heart Association
- An Uncertain Inheritance: Writers on Caring for Family, ed. by Nell Casey
- AARP on Medicare questions
- Between Comfort and Care, a Blurry Line, by Sandeep Jauhar, MD (The New York Times)
- CareCommunity (share experiences with a community of caregivers
- A Caregiver’s Bill of Rights
- Caregiver Resource Network (info and resources for family and professional caregivers, including
- Caregivers’ corner radio programs, mp3 files you can listen to online
- Caregiving.com (blogs, webinars about issues caregivers frequently encounter
- Caregiving Resources (Marty Tousley’s excellent page of links for caregivers, on her website GriefHealing
- Caring Today (caregiver guides and other resources)
- Caring Connections (useful brochures on a range of topics, in PDF form
- Caring Connections
- Caring for an Ill Spouse, and for Other Caregivers (Alix Kates Shulman, NY Times, 5-9-11 explains how effective a caregivers’ support group is, and why)
- Center for Aging with Dignity (helpful series of brief articles on what’s normal and what’s not, common roles, phases of various processes, etc., connected with aging, caregiving, driving, and grieving)
- Coping with grief (terminal illness, BBC)
- Dying Well (Dr. Ira Byock)
- Fact sheets on caregiver issues and strategies
- Family Caregiver Alliance (many useful articles)
- Family Caregiving 101 (includes answers to 10 Questions)
- Family Care Navigator (state-by-state help for family caregivers)
- Finding help for caregivers (Eileen Beal)
- Frequently asked questions about caregiivng (Utah Coalition for Caregiver Support)
- Frequently asked questions about hospice (Caring Connections)
- Full Circle of Care (“resources, information, and access to individualized assistance to caregivers nationwide”
- Lotsa Helping Hands : powers free online caring communities that provide tools to organize daily life during times of medical crisis or caregiver exhaustion.
- Gail Sheehy on the rough passage of caregiving (Paul Kleyman, Aging Today), part
- Get palliative care (care to comfort, not to cure)
- The Gift of Time by Marc Lichter (Caring Today
- The good death (Elizabeth Grice asks if we have lost the art of dying well
- Movies and videos dealing with illness, death, dying, and healing (comments about them, on the Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database), click on the title
- National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC, many resources, including online brochures. (In theory there is a Family Care Resource Connection but I couldn’t find it.
- National Caregivers Library, offers state-by-state links and resources, including Free Tools and Resources
- National organizations with various specialties
- Preventing Caregiver Burnout (Helpguide.org
- Q&A for caregivers (Medicine.net)
- Today’s Caregiver magazine online
- Useful medical websites
- What caregivers say (Caring Today, after survey of 500 caregivers)
- Carol Levine, Championing the Caregiver’s Cause (listen to NPR program)
- Caregiving Partnership: Links to a few hundred caregiving sites covering a wide range of caregiving needs and situations.
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