Family Caregiving Program

More than 44 million American Families are Caring for a Loved One at Home.

Caring for a parent, spouse or friend at home can be overwhelming. If you are like most caregivers you want to feel you are doing everything you can to provide the best care possible. Plus like many caregivers, you may have many other commitments including a job and additional family.

But you're not alone. The American Red Cross has a Family Caregiving Program and a Family Careging Reference Guide. This exciting new program offers you a helping hand by providing a variety of information-packed sessions covering topics that can help you provide the care that your loved one may need, including subjects such as home safety, healthy eating, and bathing, as well as legal and financial issues. There's even a session that helps you take care of yourself. This Family Caregiving Program has been designed to:

• Teach skills for caring for the elderly, chronically ill and disabled at home;
• Help organizations in the communities served by the American Red Cross provide services that benefit the growing senior population
• Prepare families to take on the responsibility and challenges of caring for a loved one at home.

The program consists of nine individual topic-based modules for caregivers. Choose those modules that best fit your needs - they can be taken separately or in combination. Topics include:

• Home Safety
• General Caregiving Skills
• Positioning and Helping Your Loved One Move
• Assisting with Personal Care
• Healthy Eating
• Caring for the Caregiver
• Legal and Financial Issues
• Caring for a Loved One with Alzheimer's Disease or Dementia
• Caring for a Loved One with HIV/AIDS

Each module is offered in a one hour session and for a nominal fee. No matter which module is selected, participants will enhance their skills, reduce stress and build confidence. No time to attend we have just the thing for you:

Contact the Health & Safety Director for details.

Become a Family Caregiving Leader or Authorized Provider For information about becoming a Family Caregiving leader or authorized provider, please contact the Health & Safety Director. 

Build Skills Confidently with Family Caregiving From The American Red Cross

When the Responsibility of Caring for a Loved One Rests with You, the American Red Cross Can Help.

Get the Support you Need with Family Caregiving

If you help provide care to an elderly or chronically ill family Member or other loved one, balancing the demands of work and home ias a challeng. That's why you should know about Family Care giving from the American Red Cross.

This affordable program features nine presentations designed to help people who care for others by teachingf them to build skills, reduce stress, understand legal, financial and medical issues, and balance their responsibilities. 

Short, Information-Packed Presentations Designed with You in Mind

 Family Caregiving presentations are offered right in your community at local Red Cross chapters or other convenient community locations. Each presentation is just one hour, so Family caregiving fits into even the busiest schedules.

Plus, the modular program design lets you choose any presentation you need and take them in any order

Topics Include:

Home Safety

General Caregiving Skills

Positioning and Helping Your Loved One Move

Assisting with Personal Care

Healthy Eating

Caring for the Caregiver

Legal and Financial Issues

Caring for a Loved One with Alzheimer's Disease or Dementia

Caring for a Loved One with HIV/AIDS

You will also benefit from learning more about local resources to support your family, as well as the opportunity to network with people just like you.

Contact your Local Red Cross for a Schedule of Family Caregiving presentations in your area. 

Think You're too Busy to Learn Family Caregiving Skills?

Now you can learn to provide the best care possible with the Family Caregiving book and DVD set right in your own home when its convenient for you. The Family Caregiving book and DVD include all the same content as our training presentations, plus information on how to respond to emergencies such as heart attacks, strokes ands choking. The full color, spiral- bound book is designed to be handy reference guide and include charts for recording vital signs and medications, as well as a  tri-folkd Emergency Contact Card to keep with your loved one in case of emergency. Plus the DVD will allow you to master skills  such as positioning and transferring your loved one by watching caregiver's in action. For more information on Family Caregiving training, Contact your Local American Red Cross. To purchase the Family Caregiving book and DVD set, contact or visit your local Red Cross Chapter, or the Store link.

Experts Agree:

This book helps familiesd navigate the complex world of long term caregiving and offers a wide array of useful straightforward information. It includes a good list of helpful resources, along with care tips and advice on everthing from legal matters to nutrition, safety at home and hands- on medical care. Whether they simply read the book, or view the accompanying instructive DVD as well, families and caregivers will be encouraged by the prevailing message: 'You can do this!"