Resources are free, online, and easy to access for all caregivers

Longtime advocates for caregivers in policies, health, research, and public awareness on all levels ​

Have a variety of well researched articles published

State Organization

Provides a variety of resources for caregivers like assistances, educations, reporting abuse, and more

Local Caregiving Agency to Sumter County

Are partnered with many other programs like Habitat for Humanity. All Ways Caring Homecare, and more

Based out of Americus, GA​ and was founded 35 years ago by the Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter​

Offer caregiving support, advocacy, and strategic initiatives research

Provides a crisis help line and a course on managing your stress as a caregiver to help promote health, strength, and resilience in caregivers​

Nonprofit, Nonpartisan Organization​

Information available about how a caregiver can cope with certain situations, supporting caregivers, and care at skilled facilities​

Useful information that explains how a caregiver can care for someone with a specific problem.

Government offered program​

Believe all people, regardless of age or disability, should be able to live independently and participate fully in their community.​

Offers programs, councils, and research projects

Some of the programs are: National Family Caregiver Support Program, Lifespan Respite Care Program, RAISE Family Caregiving Advisory Council​

Caregivers need to be educated on self-care, the medical side of patient's needs, and how to communicate with healthcare workers.​

There are many different resources that are available to caregivers, the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiver is one that is local to Americus, however, a lot of these resources can be easily accessed online

There are online course for how to handle situations and what a caregiver should know, there are articles explaining the best ways to communicate with healthcare, and there are different methods posted for how a caregiver can take care of themselves.

Financial assistance programs​

Join support groups​: allow a caregiver to relate to other people in similar situations​ and surrounds a caregiver with a group of people that understand​

Family and loved ones: provides a different level of comfort & security​ and can help caregiver better manage personal life ​

Be more involved in actively advocating consistently​

Send more letter to government official, be persistent​

Support groups​

Signing petitions​

Utilize social media

Know what is out there and available to caregivers

There are so many listed online resources in this bookshelf, and they all contain helpful knowledge for a caregiver

It is important to be actively looking for resources to help

This is the most important thing a caregiver can do

How could caregivers help someone to the best of their ability if they are not helping make themselves the best they can be​

Meditation, managing stress, general self-care, and counseling

Barriers: Being honest and making time for self-care activities

• Can be hard for caregivers to accept that they might need help​. Caregivers overlook their own struggles and burdens because they are supposed to be fine all the time​

• Making time for self-care activities​ because they already have very limited time so caregivers give up on ideas of self-care before they even tried ​

There are many different, unexpected situations a caregiver could face

It's impossible to prepare for every situation that might be faced, so having an open mind is important​

Any kind of help is better than no help!

Be able to think logically in times of crisis

Very popular 22 question self-report assessment​

It does not include many common factors like age, gender, location, language, living situation, marital status, or employment status, it is just asking questions pertaining to all care givers

It would be easy to gain broad information about caregivers and solutions without the additional stress these factor put on it

It is made up of three things​: best available evidence​, clinician's knowledge and skills​, and patients wants/needs

It is a six-step process approach that is a systematic circle​: assess, ask, acquire, appraise, apply, and evaluate. (this cycle can be repeated if the outcome is not what was wanted)

Prioritizes the needs, experiences, and behaviors of people in a creative problem-solving way​

Multiple benefits like enhanced outcomes, improved usability, accessibility, and more

Centers around the idea that caregivers just not know what resources are out there.

Stakeholders can be program staff, participants, funders, and policy makers​

In a study that was done, they found that the more stakeholders were involved in a program, the more successful the program was

If stakeholder are not very involved in programs, even if it is just one group, then it will negatively impact the program

Taking your time with research is important to get the most effective results with less attempts at repeating the evidence-based systemic cycle.

If the time is taken to make sure that there is substantial research in one ways favor, then it will be more effective.​

Communication is huge because if there is no communication, there is no program

Programs rely heavily on effective communication because if there is effective communication, the program is most likely doing well

Organize, secure, and govern data​

Various stakeholders need to work together​ (stakeholders encompasses all participating members in the caregiver organization)​

If there is not a good flowing, efficient relationship between each stakeholder, then the organization will fail even if they have a good program​

Stakeholders that need to be involved: insurance companies, community organizations​, and educational institutions​

​Potential Barriers: lack of communication, lack of awareness​, hard to understand​, and people in organization not willing to change

Causes mental, emotional, and physical exhaustion

Can be caused by a variety of things: to little sleep, try to do more than they can handle, little to no support, feeling overwhelmed, lack of privacy, and more

Symptoms of burnout are not limited to: feeling tired, stressed, anxious, anger/irritability, hopeless, gaining or losing weight, withdrawing from friends and family, having difficulty making decisions/trouble concentrating, or misusing drugs or alcohol

Caregiver are highly affected by these two things, 40-70% of all caregiver have experienced clinical signs of depression

Caregiver experience feelings of loneliness because of depression which can lead to serious medical health effects

Financial, African Americans struggle the most and have the lowest overall income​

African American caregivers struggle significantly more than other racial groups when it comes to finances, overworked, and low support

All caregivers are overlooked and under-paid​

Most of the time, caregivers are not paid, and they must take time off their paying job to be a caregiver​

There needs to be raised awareness and implementation of financial assistance programs for caregivers