Caring for your loved one is a life-changing journey that involves both joyful and challenging moments. Finding valuable resources and services for you and your family can make all the difference!
Miigen provides an opportunity to build a time capsule to tell your life story in a digital format. Capture the special moments of your life in your "digital scrapbook" for you and your family to enjoy.
Grandparents or relatives caring for grandchildren or other related children may face special challenges. Respite services can provide you with a much-needed break away from your caregiving responsibilities.
AACY works to increase awareness and provide support services for youth caregivers and their families by connecting them with health, education and community resources.
These respite tools provide information on the importance of respite, tools for thinking about and planning for respite, and additional resources for finding informal respite in the community. Resource materials include a respite guide book, portfolio and other tools meant to help family caregivers caring for anyone of any age or disability to create a plan to access respite services whether within or outside of the formal services system.
The Administration for Community Living, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, brings together the efforts of the Administration on Aging, the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and the HHS Office on Disability to serve as the Federal agency responsible for increasing access to community supports, while focusing attention and resources on the unique needs of older Americans and people with disabilities across the lifespan. http://www.hhs.gov/acl/
