Altarum Institute Works to Incorporate Family Caregiving into Party Platforms and Electoral Politics
The Altarum Institute announced recent success with their Family Caregiver Platform Project to include family caregiving in state and national party platforms and embed the topic in the upcoming election cycle. Many supporters of the Family Caregiver Platform Project are John A. Hartford Foundation grantees.
The Family Care Platform Project was established to include caregiving issues in state party political platforms across the country by encouraging grassroots efforts to educate and motivate policymakers to improve state and federal support for family caregivers. FCPP empowered, trained, and activated individual volunteers and organizations to raise awareness of caregiving issues by using the state platform adoption process. A platform is a declaration of a party’s stance on issues. These statements of values are important mechanisms for political action.
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