CHCS Blog: Supporting Family Caregivers in the Time of COVID-19: State Strategies
The Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. (CHCS) has published a blog, "Supporting Family Caregivers in the Time of COVID-19: State Strategies."
Family caregivers across the country who are caring for aging family members and those with chronic needs are facing a myriad of added stressors caused by COVID-19. In the pre-pandemic environment, family caregivers already faced a myriad of potential stressors. COVID-19 has made their critical job even more challenging by adding uncertainty and stress, removing access to care, and complicating service delivery.
For the past two years, CHCS, with support from The John A. Hartford Foundation as well as the Milbank Memorial Fund, the May & Stanley Smith Charitable Trust, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, has been working with states in the Helping States Support Families Caring for an Aging America initiative to develop new opportunities to support family caregivers. The COVID-19 crisis has further highlighted the critical need for states to support the essential role of family caregivers.
The blog post explores challenges facing family caregivers in the current environment and outlines strategies states can use to support this important workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
To read the blog, click here.
To learn more about the Helping States Support Families Caring for an Aging America initiative, click here.
To learn more about JAHF's support, click here.
