Family Caregiving
If you're helping to care for a loved one, you're not alone. Build skills confidently with Family Caregiving from the American Red Cross.
More than 40 million Americans are helping to care for a sick or elderly loved one.
If you're one of them, you should know about Family Caregiving from the American Red Cross. This program is designed for people who help provide care for an elderly or chronically ill loved one. It's an easy way for you to build caregiving skills and learn how to reduce stress, better understand legal, financial and medical issues and balance work and home responsibilities.
Get the support you need with Family Caregiving
If you help provide care to a family member or other loved one, balancing the demands of work and home is a challenge. That's why you should know about Family Caregiving from the American Red Cross.
This affordable program features nine presentations designed to help people who care for others by teaching 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 Caregifing presentations are offered right here at your community Red Cross chapter. 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.
1 hour topic 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 diseas or Dementia
- Caring rof a loved one with HIV/AIDS
You will also benefit from learning more about local resources to support your family and networking with people just like you.
Think you're too busy for Family Caregiving?
Now you can learn to provide the best care possible with the American Red Cross Family Caregiving Home Reference Kit right in your own home.
Purchase this convenient kit and learn on your own when it's convenient for you. The Family Caregiving Home Reference Kit includes all nine booklets and a companion VHS or DVD.
For more information about Family Caregiving presentations or to purchase the Home Reference Kit,
contact us or call (800) 667-2968.