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The National Caregivers Library is one of the most extensive online libraries for caregivers in the country. It consists of hundreds of useful articles, forms, checklists and links to topic-specific external resources. The library is organized into logical categories that address the key needs of caregivers and their loved ones.

The Library also includes an entire section for employers. It provides tools to help employers understand the impact of caregiving on their people and on the organization itself. It also provides tools to help identify the organization costs of working caregivers and ways to analyze, justify, develop and implement Caregiving and Eldercare programs.

www.caregiverslibrary.org

National Family Caregivers Association (NFCA) educates, supports, and speaks up for the more than 65 million Americans who care for loved ones with a chronic illness, disability, or frailty. NFCA reaches across the boundaries of diagnoses, relationships, and life stages to address the common needs and concerns of all family caregivers.

www.thefamilycaregiver.org

The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) is the largest nonprofit membership organization representing hospice and palliative care programs and professionals in the United States. The organization is committed to improving end of life care and expanding access to hospice care with the goal of profoundly enhancing quality of life for people dying in America and their loved ones.

Caring Connections, a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), is a national consumer engagement initiative to improve care at the end of life, supported by a grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Caring Connections provides free resources, and information about end-of-life issues such as advance care planning, caregiving, hospice and palliative care, and grief.

HelpLine: 800-658-8898

www.caringinfo.org

The National Charity for End-of-Life Care

Established in 1992, the National Hospice Foundation is committed to leading global, philanthropic efforts advancing quality, compassionate, end-of-life care for all.  We strive to empower people around the world to make end-of-life choices that are right for them and their families.  We want to ensure that at the end of life, people have the opportunity to:

• Maintain their dignity and self respect; 
• Live their final days pain-free; 
• Access the highest quality care available through hospice.

The National Senior Citizens Law Center advocates before the courts, Congress and federal agencies to promote the independence and well-being of low-income elderly and disabled Americans. NSCLC publishes consumer guides on long-term care, including nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Learn more about NSCLC's publications

Revolution Health is a new health care Website started by AOL co-founder Steve Case. Revolution Health helps individuals take action to manage their health care, conditions and healthy living goals by bringing together a blend of the best health information, tools, communities, and services all in one place.

RevolutionHealth.com provides top notch content from MayoClinic.com, Cleveland Clinic, Harvard Health Publications, and more.   

You can also share your experiences and learn from others in a community where the content is generated by people like you. With great content, doctor reviews, treatment ratings, forums, stories, and blogs, there’s a home for you at Revolution Health. Please visit www.RevolutionHealth.com for more information.

The Rosalynn Carter Institute establishes local, state and national partnerships committed to building quality long-term, home and community-based services. Our focus includes supporting individuals and caregivers coping with chronic illness and disability across the lifespan as well as limitations due to aging. RCI provides assistance at 4 levels: training caregiver leaders at Georgia Southwestern State University, serving individual caregiving families in South-Central Georgia, working collaboratively with Georgia CARE-NET coalitions across the state, and supporting implementation of evidence-based caregiver programs across the country. RCI provides an online resource center, a technical assistance series, grant opportunities, targeted technical assistance to grantees, scholarship and award programs, and coordinates the efforts of the National Quality Caregiving Network.

www.rosalynncarter.org

If you've ever said "How can I help?" Or if someone ever said it to you, Share The Care is the model and handbook that can turn that question into a working answer.

Share The Care shows friends, neighbors, work colleagues and acquaintances how they can create their own "caregiving family" to help, whether it's rehabilitation, illness, aging or any situation where the primary caregiver is unable to carry the load alone.

A Share The Care group supports not only the person in need but their whole family as well as those with no family nearby. It's a way to share the care so no one has to go it alone; no one gets burned out from taking on too much; and no one takes on jobs they can't handle.

www.sharethecare.org

The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping nurses help family caregivers and patients through the development of leadership and scholarship in nursing practice, education, and research.

Supporter of The Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing’s Future, the Honor Society of Nursing’s more than 134,000 members serve in hospitals, acute and long-term care facilities, hospices, home care, health care policy organizations, and universities worldwide. More information about the society can be found online at www.nursingsociety.org.