CAREGIVING
Tools
Get Organized!
Download our information form, which helps you identify where your most important papers are kept. This can save you added stress during an emergency.
Employers Supporting Caregivers
What can employers do to help caregivers? Check out our tips, and forward them to your company's benefits coordinators.
Long-Distance Caregiving
As a long-distance caregiver, you can take these steps to make the job more manageable.
Prepare to Care
If you're joining the more than 30 million households providing care for someone 50+, make sure you are prepared. Download our free kit, which includes advice on getting started, questions to ask, and where to find basic resources.
CAPS Locator
Find a Certified Aging-in-Place Specialist (CAPS), an expert who helps caregivers remodel their homes to accommodate loved ones with special needs.
Community Services Programs
Find out about assistance offered on the federal, state, and local levels. Public support includes everything from meal delivery at home to personal-care services for you or your loved one.
Caregivers Stress Test
The value of rest for caregivers is often overlooked. Assess your need for it through our quick stress quiz.
State Average Caregiving Costs
What is the average cost of nursing homes, assisted-living facilities, adult day-care centers, or home health-aide services in your state? Use our long-term care cost calculator to approximate your options.
Know Your Health History
Learn what health information should be immediately available and how to keep a list of medications updated.
AARP Books
Caring for Your Parents
Coauthors and AARP experts Hugh Delehanty and Elinor Ginzler guide readers along an innovative, resourceful path to caregiving—one that deepens the intergenerational bond, transforming an undeniable duty into a journey of spiritual growth and personal discovery.
They’re often the last to ask for help, but the millions of people who manage the care of ailing family members and friends are themselves among the neediest.
Caring for Your Parents
Get an intimate look at five families struggling to keep parents at home in this PBS documentary "Caring for Your Parents." Watch the show online.
Navigating the World of Caregiving
More than 44 million Americans are responsible for the care of a family member or friend. Caregivers can access our extensive toolkit filled with interactive features, such as expert videos, calculators, and worksheets, into a one-stop shop for the information you need to care for the one you love.
From the Online Community
Video: Role Reversal
"There was my cancer again. And there was my mother again as my caregiver." -AARP member on being in her mother's care a second time around.
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Group: Caregiving 24/7
"... Vent frustrations ... and that sometimes overall feeling of being emotionally drained from a 24/7 caretaking experience."
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Alzheimer's Caregiving
AARP Radio talks to Sarah Varney, who recounts the struggle of one family to care for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease.
Double Bind: Work and Home
More than 44 million Americans are involved in caring for an aging relative or friend; 29 million of those caregivers hold down jobs. Some caregivers are finding themselves with divided loyalties.
Facing What's Ahead
Dealing with degenerative illness in a parent, you can help him or her plan for tough times.
Candidates as Caregivers
As the presidential candidates crisscrossed the early primary states in recent months, Americans facing the challenges of long-term care might have wondered about the contenders' experiences with their own parents.
