Over the course of two decades, 53-year-old Guillermo Argueta’s diabetes developed into cataracts and later resulted in kidney failure. That was when his sister, Ana...
Read moreI was 28 when my dad was first diagnosed with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). I was a single young professional, working my first management job...
Read moreWhen Jennifer Levin’s father was diagnosed six years ago with a degenerative neurological disease, she began trying to manage his care in New York from...
Read moreSeth Rotberg was 15 years old when his mother was diagnosed with Huntington’s Disease. The diagnosis brought an end to years of confusion about his...
Read moreCalifornia lawmakers are considering a plan to build up the next generation of long-term care providers by creating a trained Care Corps. Modeled after AmeriCorps,...
Read moreFamily caregivers are getting younger. The responsibility of tending to the daily needs of an elderly or chronically ill loved one is increasingly being shared...
Read moreFor anyone newly managing their parents’ finances, trying to understand medical directives, or generally feeling overwhelmed by the responsibilities of caring for a family member,...
Read moreFor Rachel Hiles, May 23, 2015 is marked in her conscious as her own personal day of infamy. That’s the day that her grandmother fell...
Read moreLeslie Tracy wanted to be able to help when her mother took a turn for the worse in her battle with ovarian cancer last spring....
Read moreIn my family, we die at home. Maybe it’s a black thing, a combined distrust of white authority and fear of medical experimentation handed down...
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Embracing Carers is an initiative led by EMD Serono, in collaboration with leading caregiver organizations around the world, to increase awareness and action about the often-overlooked needs of caregivers.
Do YOU give a care? is an effort led by The SCAN Foundation to highlight the caregiving role that more than 10 million millennials are playing in their families.
