Caregiver Action Network (CAN): a national nonprofit focused on supporting family caregivers across the U.S., including those caring for older adults, people with disabilities, chronic illnesses, and other care-needs. They provide education, peer support, and free resources to caregivers nationwide. They also operate a free “National Caregiver Help Desk” (phone: 855-227-3640) staffed by experts, offering advice, tools, and resources for caregivers and they maintain an online directory of caregiver resources and tools.

CAREGIVER RESOURCES AND ORGANIZATIONS

• Assuring Healthy Caregivers, A Public Health Approach to Translating Research into Practice: The RE-AIM Framework (PDF, 7.20MB)
  How the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation and Maintenance (RE-AIM) Framework can facilitate successful translation efforts and make a positive difference in the lives of caregivers. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

• Family Caregiver Alliance: Caregivers Count Too! Toolkit
  An online toolkit to help practitioners assess the needs of family caregivers

• Next Step in Care
  Next Step in Care provides easy-to-use guides to help family caregivers and health care providers work closely together to plan and implement safe and smooth transitions for chronically or seriously ill patients.

• Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving  
  The Caregiver Intervention Database contains descriptions of empirically validated caregiver support programs, implementation tools and guides, and caregiver resources.