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AGIS Eldercare Resource
AGIS.com helps caregivers and their loved ones meet the challenges of aging. Informed, connected AGIS.com users make decisions that lead to happier, healthier lives.
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Care Options - Adult Day Centers
ALZ.org resource on adult day centers that offer opportunities to be social and to participate in activities in a safe environment.
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Caregiver Action Network
Help for caregivers: Tips, Videos, Stories, Family Caregiver Toolbox.
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Caregiver Tip Sheets and Notebook
Tip Sheets on bathing, medications, driving, getting lost, keeping home safe and others. A Care Transitions Notebook on how to care for someone with memory loss or Alzheimer's following a hospitalization.
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Caregiver’s Guide to Understanding Dementia Behaviors
A fact sheet with practical strategies for dealing with behavior and communication difficulties when caring for a person with dementia.
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Empowering Caregivers
A rich, safe nurturing site for all caregivers focused on providing practical emotional and spiritual support with tools for self-empowerment and a strong sense of an interactive community with scheduled chats and forums. There is a wealth of offerings: expert columns, articles by top authors in the areas of aging, caregiving and motivation, journal exercises, a newsletter, a healing circle of prayer, spotlights, humor, alternative healing, inspiration, and all -inclusive resources.
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Financial Steps for Caregivers
What you need to know about protecting your money and retirement
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Managing Someone Else's Money
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau offers guides to explain powers of attorney, court-appointed guardians, trustees, and government fiduciaries (Social Security representative payees and VA fiduciaries.) These guides help you to be a financial caregiver.
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Missing/Wandering Senior support network
This site can help you notify the network of family, friends and businesses your loved one may encounter when lost.
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One in Ten “Daughters in the Workplace” Report Jobs Are at Risk
Half of working female caregivers feel they have to choose between being a good employee and being a good daughter, according to a new survey by Home Instead, Inc.
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Paying Minimum Wage and Overtime to Home Care Workers
A 2016 Guide for Consumers and their Families to the Fair Labor Standards Act from the U.S. Department of Labor
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Today's Caregiver
Caregiver website for family and professional caregivers.