Blog: ACL Supports Family Caregiving During the COVID-19 Pandemic Response
Blog: ACL Supports Family Caregiving During the COVID-19 Pandemic Response
Lance Robertson, Administration on Community Living (ACL) Administrator and Assistant Secretary for Aging, has published a blog, "ACL Supports Family Caregiving During the COVID-19 Pandemic Response."
Mr. Robertson notes that ACL is "keenly aware of, and we are addressing, the challenges facing all vulnerable people and their family caregivers at this key time in our nation’s history," and outlines the specific ways that ACL is working to support family caregivers, including releasing nearly $1 billion in grants to the aging and disability networks. Examples of other initiatives include two advisory councils, the Family Caregiving Advisory Council (FCAC) and the Advisory Council to Support Grandparents Raising Grandchildren (SGRG).
"As one example of our work supporting caregivers, I’d like to describe a collaboration with the National Academy for State Health Policy’s (NASHP) John A. Hartford Foundation-funded RAISE Family Caregiver Resource and Dissemination Center. NASHP issued a report analyzing more than 800 recommendations from twenty-seven national, state and international family caregiving consensus reports, most of which were written during the past decade. This report will help FCAC’s development of the Initial Report to Congress and the National Caregiving Strategy, already under development," said Mr. Robertson.
The blog was originally published on HHS website.
To read the blog, click here.
To go to ACL's Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) resources, click here.
